This companion volume to Archaeology as Long-term History focuses on the symbolism of
artefacts. It seeks at once to refine the theory and method relating to interpretation and show …

This paper examines differences in the nature of inter-regional relations in the Neolithic,
Bronze Age, and early Iron Ages, in an attempt to define the specific characteristics of …

Social Archaeology and Material Worlds aims to forefront dynamic and cutting-edge social
approaches to archaeology. It brings together volumes about past people, social and …

A breakthrough theory that tools and technology are the real drivers of human evolution
Although humans are one of the great apes, along with chimpanzees, gorillas, and …

Unlike other components of the Bell Beaker assemblage, Beaker pottery itself lacks an
intrinsic value since fabric analyses have demonstrated that it was locally produced. It is …

Ideas of deception still persist and, in particular, are frequently associated with a particular
class of material culture: skeuomorphs. Skeuomorphs are artifacts made from one material …

Frank De Mita, Sophia Voutsaki and Todd Whitelaw, obviously, took the article for what it
was meant to be: not a final assessment of the use of the concept of value in archaeology …

Origins of people speaking Indo-European languages is one of the most discussed issues in
archeology and linguistics. One theory suggests their spread from the Near East. The …

The bronze cup found in Dohnsen (Lower Saxony, Northern Germany) in the 1950s is an
enigmatic artefact that bears striking similarities with the metalwork of the Late Aegean …

In the 2nd millennium BC cultural, social and political entities of a new kind and scale came
into existence and transformed Europe into a distinct cultural zone, where intense and …