Proponents of the model known as the “human revolution” claim that modern human
behaviors arose suddenly, and nearly simultaneously, throughout the Old World ca. 40 …

Under the influence of phenomenological approaches, a semiotic perspective on the body is
being replaced in archaeology by analysis of the production and experience of lived bodies …

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 …

In recent years, there has been a tendency to correlate the origin of modern culture and
language with that of anatomically modern humans. Here we discuss this correlation in the …

Technology is not only the material means of making artifacts, but a dynamic cultural
phenomenon embedded in social action, worldviews, and social reproduction. This paper …

Hunting and gathering is humanity's first and most successful adaptation. Until 12,000 years
ago, all humanity lived this way. Surprisingly, in an increasingly urbanized and technological …

The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are
connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic …

This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing
an innovative and important account of how material culture is used in the construction of …

Every year, leading social anthropologists meet to debate a motion at the heart of current
theoretical developments in their subject and this book includes the first six of these debates …

An Archaeology of Materials sets out a new approach to the study of raw materials.
Traditional understandings of materials in archaeology (and in western thought more widely) …