Forthcoming Archaeological Theory Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Making

   Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture

   By Tim Ingold

   Making involves the creation of knowledge, the building of environments and the transformation of lives. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four related disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture together by considering them all as ways of making, dedicated to exploring...

   To Be Published March 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Reclaiming Archaeology

   Beyond the Tropes of Modernity

   Edited by Alfredo González-Ruibal

   Series: Archaeological Orientations

   Archaeology has been an important source of metaphors for some of the key intellectuals of the 20th century: Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Alois Riegl and Michel Foucault, amongst many others. However, this power has also turned against archaeology, because the discipline has been dealt with...

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Archaeology in Environment and Technology

   Intersections and Transformations

   Edited by David Frankel, Susan Lawrence, Jennifer Webb

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways. The chapters in this book take environment, culture, and technology together. All have been the focus of much attention; often one...

   To Be Published April 18th 2013 by Routledge
4. Ancient Egyptian Temple Ritual

   Performance, Patterns, and Practice

   By Katherine Eaton

   Series: Routledge Studies in Egyptology

   Large state temples in ancient Egypt were vast agricultural estates, with interests in mining, trading, and other economic activities. The temple itself served as the mansion or palace of the deity to whom the estate belonged, and much of the ritual in temples was devoted to offering a...

   To Be Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
5. An Archaeology of Land Ownership

   Edited by Maria Relaki, Despina Catapoti

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   Within archaeological studies, land tenure has been mainly studied from the viewpoint of ownership. A host of studies has argued about land ownership on the basis of the simple co-existence of artefacts on the landscape; other studies have tended to extrapolate land ownership from more indirect...

   To Be Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
6. From Prehistoric Villages to Cities

   Settlement Aggregation and Community Transformation

   Edited by Jennifer Birch

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   Archaeologists have focused a great deal of attention on explaining the evolution of village societies and the transition to a ‘Neolithic’ way of life. Considerable interest has also concentrated on urbanism and the rise of the earliest cities. Between these two landmarks in human cultural...

   To Be Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
7. Relational Archaeologies

   Humans, Animals, Things

   Edited by Christopher Watts

   Many of us accept as uncontroversial the belief that the world is comprised of detached and disparate products, all of which are reducible to certain substances. Of those things that are alive, we acknowledge that some have agency while others, such as humans, have more advanced qualities such as...

   To Be Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
8. Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory

   Edited by STELLA SOUVATZI, Athena Hadji

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory addresses these two concepts as interrelated, rather than as separate categories, and as a means for understanding past social relations at different scales. The need for this volume was realised through four main observations: the ever growing interest in...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. Consumerism in the Ancient Mediterranean

   Imports and Identity Construction

   By Justin Walsh

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   Study of long-distance trade in Greek pottery traces its intellectual roots back to twentieth-century investigations of Greek colonization. Scholarship until 1980 tended to treat colonial interactions as a straightforward and one-way transmission of Greek culture to indigenous groups. In this model...

   To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Archaeology of Early Roman Religion

    By Elizabeth Colantoni

    Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

    The religion of the people of Rome in the first centuries of the city’s history has long been a topic of interest for scholars, but it has been investigated primarily through literary evidence recorded in the first century BC and later, many centuries after an urban community first began to develop...

    To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge