Process philosophy offers a metaphysical foundation for domestication studies. This
grounding is especially important given the European colonialist origin of 'domestication'as …

This chapter aims to explore some of the uses of the concept of “domestication” in
anthropology and archaeology, to point out some of the difficulties of the concept, and to …

Domestication can sometimes seem to be taken for granted as a state of affairs the origins of
which are lost in the mists of time, the effects of which will be with us forever. Domestication …

As a theory of social reproduction, agency provides an attractive framework for
understanding how material culture relates to everyday social action, to long-standing …

After a century of research, there is still no widely accepted explanation for the spread of
farming in Europe. Top-down explanations stress climate change, population increase, or …

29 3. Triangulating absence: exploring the fault-lines goals and broader theoretical
frameworks of archaeology and anthropology. However, I would like to suggest that such …

Contemporary ethnoarchaeology has come a long way from material correlates and
'fleshing out the past'. This paper re-introduces ethnoarchaeology and opens a debate on its …

Many strands of archaeology have not succeeded in disentangling the complex relationship
between humans and things. They are based on the anthropocentric notion that the …

As the archaeology of colonialism and Indigenous peoples continues to mature, the
theoretical models and terminologies applied to them continue to undergo refinements and …

Several commentators have argued that ethnoarchaeology will only become a productive
part of archaeological research once both archaeology and ethnoarchaeology are unified by …