Forthcoming Archaeological Theory Books

Forthcoming Books

1. 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
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 May 8th 2013 by Routledge
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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 28th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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 August 15th 2013 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Craft Traditions of the Ancient Mediterranean

   Material Culture, Knowledge Networks, and Technological Change

   Edited by Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Lin Foxhall, Ann Brysbaert

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   This edited volume investigates knowledge networks based on materials and associated technologies in Prehistoric Europe and the Classical Mediterranean. It emphasises the significance of material objects to the construction, maintenance, and collapse of networks of various forms – which are central...

   To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Religious Conversion and Identity

   The Semiotic Analysis of Texts

   By Massimo Leone

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   The way in which people change and represent their spiritual evolution is often determined by recurrent language structures. Through the analysis of ancient and modern stories and their words and images, this book describes the nature of conversion through explorations of the encounter with the...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Writings of Henry Barrow, 1587-1590

    By Henry Barrow

    Henry Barrow and John Greenwood are the fathers of Elizabethan Separatism. Unlike Robert Browne, they refused to compromise their beliefs or conform to Anglicanism and as a consequence they died in 1593 - as martyrs for their steadfast adherence to the principles of English Congregationalism....

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge