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 …

One of the challenges in evaluating arguments for extending the conceptual framework of
evolutionary biology involves the identification of a tractable model system that allows for an …

Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium provides an account of the changing world of
archaeological theory and a challenge to more traditional narratives of archaeological …

In exploring human‐thing entanglement I wish to make five points.(1) Humans depend on
things. In much of the new work in the social and human sciences in which humans and …

" No other work in this field covers the history of important conceptual issues in archaeology
in such a deep and knowledgable way, bringing both philosophical and archeological …

This work takes as its starting point the role of fieldwork and how this has changed over the
past 150 years. The author argues against progressive accounts of fieldwork and instead …

The power of an anthropological approach to long-term history lies in its unique ability to
combine diverse evidence, from archaeological artifacts to ethnographic texts and …

Abstract Niche Construction Theory (NCT) provides a powerful conceptual framework for
understanding how and why humans and target species entered into domesticatory …

A new paradigm is emerging in archaeology herein dubbed 'historical processualism'. A
review of three contemporary approaches to the study of the past–neo-Darwinism, cognitive …

Theory in North American archaeology is characterized in terms of foci and approaches
manifested in research issues, rather than in explicit or oppositional theoretical positions …