The editors and contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of
archaeology and its impact on the practice of the discipline. Pointing to the discipline's …

Historical and anthropological archaeology have had a somewhat disjointed relationship.
Differences in theoretical perspectives, methodological concerns, and material records have …

The social and material lives of African Americans on antebellum plantations in the southern
United States were heavily influenced by power relations inherent to the institution of …

Drawing on recent critiques of evolutionism, this article reviews the history of Iron Age
studies in Siin-Saalum (Senegal) to examine the construction of African archaeological …

To be defined by a lack of something–homeless–creates problematic identity challenges
and fundamentally ruptures a person's sense of ontological security. Archaeology as a …

The aim of this study is to investigate the ways in which actions involving the construction of
funerary mounds facilitated the continuity of Beaker and Bronze Age society in South-West …

Archaeologists, like many other anthropologists, are experiencing a renewed regard for
history. This return to history comes after a period of great advances in the recording of time …

Archaeology and Intentionality explores perhaps one of the most overlooked topics in
archaeology, that of intentionality. In archaeology, most explanations of human behaviour …

Part of the challenge facing an ethical and socially responsible archaeology is to square
traditional, time-honored commitments to 'objective'scholarly inquiry with the politically …

Methodologies for learning about the past are currently at issue within archaeology. This
paper considers learning from the standpoint of a 'radical'archaeology. One strand of a …