Material Culture Books

New and Published Books

1. Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

   By Louise Steel

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   The importance of cultural contacts in the East Mediterranean has long been recognized and is the focus of ongoing international research. Fieldwork in the Aegean, Egypt, Cyprus, and the Levant continues to add to our understanding of the nature of this contact and its social and economic...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. A Philosophy of Material Culture

   Action, Function, and Mind

   By Beth Preston

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   This book focuses on material culture as a subject of philosophical inquiry and promotes the philosophical study of material culture by articulating some of the central and difficult issues raised by this topic and providing innovative solutions to them, most notably an account of improvised action...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. Ancient Alterity in the Andes

   A Recognition of Others

   By George F. Lau

   Ancient Alterity in the Andes is the first major treatment on ancient alterity: how people in the past regarded others. At least since the 1970s, alterity has been an influential concept in different fields, from art history, psychology and philosophy, to linguistics and ethnography. Having gained...

   Published October 23rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Hadrian's Wall and the End of Empire

   The Roman Frontier in the 4th and 5th Centuries

   By Rob Collins

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   There is no synthetic or comprehensive treatment of any late Roman frontier in the English language to date, despite the political and economic significance of the frontiers in the late antique period. Examining Hadrian’s Wall and the Roman frontier of northern England from the fourth century into...

   Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. An Archaeology of Images

   Iconology and Cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe

   By Miranda Aldhouse Green

   Using archaeology and social anthropology, and more than 100 original line drawings and photographs, An Archaeology of Images takes a fresh look at how ancient images of both people and animals were used in the Iron Age and Roman societies of Europe, 600 BC to AD 400 and investigates the various...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology

   A Diachronic Perspective on the Aegean

   Edited by Ann Brysbaert

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   This volume investigates smaller and larger networks of contacts within and across the Aegean and nearby regions, covering periods from the Neolithic until Classical times (6000–323 BC). It explores the world of technologies, crafts and archaeological 'left-overs' in order to place social and...

   Published October 24th 2011 by Routledge
7. Landscapes of the Western Front

   Materiality During the Great War

   By Ross Wilson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

   This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, this study investigates the relationship between soldiers and the spaces and materials of the...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
8. Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture

   Edited by Juliette Fritsch

   Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

   Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation...

   Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge
9. An Archaeology of Materials

   Substantial Transformations in Early Prehistoric Europe

   By Chantal Conneller

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   An Archaeology of Materials sets out a new approach to the study of raw materials. Traditional understandings of materials in archaeology (and in western thought more widely) have failed to acknowledge both the complexity and, moreover, the benefits of an analysis of materials. Here Conneller...

   Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge
10. The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial

    By Paul Pettitt

    Humans are unique in that they expend considerable effort and ingenuity in disposing of the dead. Some of the recognisable ways we do this are visible in the Palaeolithic archaeology of the Ice Age. The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial takes a novel approach to the long-term development of...

    Published October 12th 2010 by Routledge