Archaeology: An Introduction looks behind the popular aspects of archaeology such as the
discovery and excavation of sites, the study of human remains and animal bones …

Materiality is so enmeshed in our everyday existence that it has a kind of impenetrability. We
are in touch with it so intimately that it vanishes. And yet of course it is always very much …

An in-depth exploration of the interaction between mind and material world, mediated by
language, image, and making—in design, the arts, culture, and science. In Material and …

Recent archaeological investigations at Khao Sam Kaeo, on the Upper Thai-Malay
Peninsula, have furnished evidence for a mid/late 1st millennium BCE cultural exchange …

This paper concerns the identification and explanation of change in prehistoric extractive
metallurgical behaviour in the Iron Age Khao Wong Prachan Valley of central Thailand. This …

Although Wallace's revitalization movement model has been successfully utilized in scores
of ethnographic and ethnohistorical studies of societies throughout the world, revitalization is …

In zahlreichen Disziplinen, die sich mit sozialen Zusammenhängen befassen, ist Materialität
während der letzten Jahrzehnte zu einem Thema geworden, dem man mehr und mehr …

From Fighting with Food (Young 1971) to Feasts (Dietler and Hayden 2001), anthropological
literature has long demonstrated the active social role of food, as substance as much as …

There is a series of common assumptions about prehistoric sex, associated with the
prejudice that it must have been more natural because it happened closer to our …

This article introduces the special issue on 'Material Encounters' by addressing the praxis of
materiality across time, disciplines, areas of study, and technologies. We use the metonyms …