A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship
with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the …

This review aims to show how the new results from Çatalhöyük in central Turkey contribute
to wider theories about the Neolithic in Anatolia and the Middle East. I argue that many of the …

“This book exhorts the reader to embrace the materiality of archaeology by recognizing how
every step in the discipline's scientific processes involves interaction with myriad physical …

The social organization of the first fully sedentary societies that emerged during the Neolithic
period in Southwest Asia remains enigmatic, 1 mainly because material culture studies …

The archaeology of the contemporary past is becoming an important subfield within the
discipline and one attractive not only to archaeologists but to social scientists and artists …

How do archaeologists work with the data they identify as a record of the cultural past? How
are these data collected and construed as evidence? What is the impact on archaeological …

This paper explores a central paradox in the aims of the archaeology of the contemporary
past as they have been articulated by its practitioners. On the one hand, its aim has been …

Egypt looms large in the Western imagination. Whether it is our attraction to pharaonic art,
the pyramids or practices of mummification, Egypts unique understanding of materiality …

This article is concerned with the social processes involved in the formation of large
agglomerated villages in the Neolithic of the Near East and Anatolia, with particular …

In recent years the development of a phenomenological archaeology has provoked
considerable discussion within the discipline, particularly within British prehistory. This …