Highlights
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Ancient Near East: The Basics
Series: The Basics
Ancient Near East: The Basics surveys the history of the ancient Middle East from the invention of writing to Alexander the Great’s conquest. The book introduces both the physical and intellectual environment of those times, the struggles of state-building and empire construction, and the dissent...
To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
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Archaeology in the Making
Conversations through a Discipline
Archaeology in the Making is a collection of bold statements about archaeology, its history, how it works, and why it is more important than ever. This book comprises conversations about archaeology among some of its notable contemporary figures. They delve deeply into the questions that have come...
Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
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The Ancient Near East
History, Society and Economy
The Ancient Near East reveals three millennia of history (3500-500 BC) in a single work. Using the latest research from the most recent archaeological finds, and thanks to his personal odyssey of over twenty-five years, Liverani has succeeded in retracing the history of the peoples of the...
To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge
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The Ancient Central Andes
Series: Routledge World Archaeology
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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The Sumerian World
Series: Routledge Worlds
The Sumerian World explores the archaeology, history and art of southern Mesopotamia and its relationships with its neighbours from c.3,000 - 2,000BC. Including material hitherto unpublished from recent excavations, the articles are organised thematically using evidence from archaeology, texts and...
Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
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Reclaiming Archaeology
Beyond the Tropes of Modernity
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
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Ruin Memories
Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past
Series: Archaeological Orientations
Since the 19th century, mass-production, consumerism and cycles of material replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are increasingly rapidly victimized and made redundant. At the same time processes of destruction have immensely intensified, although largely overlooked...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Human Conflict
If human burials were our only window onto the past, what story would they tell? Skeletal injuries constitute the most direct and unambiguous evidence for violence in the past. Whereas weapons or defenses may simply be statements of prestige or status and written sources are characteristically...
To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Bodies in Conflict
Corporeality, Materiality, and Transformation
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Archaeology of the Immaterial
the ascetic object, disengaging the material world
The Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies namely the active rejection of the material world. By this is meant a number of cultural projects, from anti-consumerism, asceticism, and other attempts to transcend material...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Ancient Alterity in the Andes
A Recognition of Others
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
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An Archaeology of the Cosmos
Rethinking Agency and Religion in Ancient America
An Archaeology of the Cosmos seeks answers to two fundamental questions of humanity and human history. The first question concerns that which some use as a defining element of humanity: religious beliefs. Why do so many people believe in supreme beings and holy spirits? The second question concerns...
Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
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Relational Archaeologies
Humans, Animals, Things
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
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Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory
Investigating the Missing Majority
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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The Vikings
Series: Peoples of the Ancient World
The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians. In the space of less than 300 years from the late eighth to the late eleventh centuries CE, people from what are now Norway, Sweden and Denmark left their homelands in...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade
Holy War and Colonisation
The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade explores the archaeology and material culture of the crusade against the Prussian tribes in the 13th century, and the subsequent society created by the Teutonic Order which lasted into the 16th century. It provides the first synthesis of the material culture...
Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Miletos
Archaeology and History, 2nd Edition
Series: Cities of the Ancient World
Miletos, on the coast of Asia Minor, was one of the most important Greek cities – a key economic power as well as a centre of philosophy and learning. Yet with historical sources scarce, and the mass of archaeological work done in over a century of excavations not published in English, studying the...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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The Etruscan World
Series: Routledge Worlds
The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean, with such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the...
To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Roman Archaeology for Historians
Series: Approaching the Ancient World
Roman Archaeology for Historians provides students of Roman history with a guide to the contribution of archaeology to the study of their subject. It discusses the issues with the use of material and textual evidence to explain the Roman past, and the importance of viewing this evidence in context....
Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
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Heritage
Critical Approaches
Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums…we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of...
Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
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The Dignity of Heritage
The Dignity of Heritage makes a radical break with routinised accounts and definitions of cultural heritage and with the existing or ‘established’ canon of cultural heritage texts. Jacques Derrida’s rallying call to ‘restore heritage to dignity’ is taken as an alternative guiding metaphor by which...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Memorylands
Heritage and Identity in Europe Today
Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a ’memoryland’ – littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how this...
Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
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Heritage and Tourism
Place, Encounter, Engagement
Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
The complex relationship between heritage places and people, in the broadest sense, can be considered dialogic, a communicative act that has implications for both sides of the ‘conversation’. This is the starting point for Heritage and Tourism . However, the ‘dialogue’ between visitors and heritage...
Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Conservation of Cultural Heritage
Key Principles and Approaches
Conservation of Cultural Heritage covers the methods and practices needed for future museum professionals who will be working in various capacities with museum collections and artifacts. It also assists current professionals in understanding the complex decision-making processes that face...
Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Displaced Things
Displaced Things explores the movements of material things from one setting to another. Its analysis examines how the qualities of objects, and the meanings and values with which they are attributed, change as they are repeatedly re-contextualised. The volume argues that our understanding of the...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge