Knowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by
the application of new scientific techniques, especially the analysis of ancient DNA from …

The social anthropology of death 21 Cross-cultural generalizations and the New
Archaeology's search for middle range theory 27 Funerary practices: agency, power and …

Archaeological writing careers often go through several stages. They begin with an early
bright ideas phase, when interesting but often in retrospect rather naïve prognostications are …

In this fresh consideration of the origins of the ancient Greeks' ideas and practices
concerning their own past, Carla M. Antonaccio demonstrates that hero cult and ancestor …

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 …

This book studies the formation of complex societies in prehistoric China during the Neolithic
and early state periods, c. 7000–1500 BC. Archaeological materials are interpreted through …

The dead, collectively or individually, are sometimes powerful forces in human society. At
other times they fade into relative insignificance. How archaeologists recover such …

The archaeological identification of individuals has been an important component of both
processual attempts to characterize social organization by the treatment of individuals in …

Investigates how small groups-households and local communities-constitute and represent
their social identity by ordering the landscape in which they dwell. The author develops a …

This final chapter situates Classic Maya burials within the greater landscape of Maya
communities and kingdoms. As is true of most lineage-organized societies, ancestors …