Wiley-VCH - Archaeology

A Companion to Chinese Archaeology

Underhill, Anne P. (ed.) — 15 Apr 2013 08:17:45 +0200

A Companion to Chinese Archaeology offers a broad overview of the field that has evolved over the last few decades into an exploration of the prehistory of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Top scholars will be enlisted to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of developments in the field, and this new companion will be an authoritative guide for researchers, instructors and students in anthropology, Asian studies, and Chinese studies. [664 Pages, Hardcover]

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A Companion to the Early Middle Ages

Stafford, Pauline (ed.) — 10 Dec 2012 08:21:11 +0100

This collection of 28 original essays by leading scholars covers the key debates and issues involved in writing a history of Britain in the early middle ages. Moving away from the Anglo-centrism which has been the norm for accounts of the period, the essays in this Companion take an inclusive approach to the history of the British Isles to overcome artificial distinctions of national boundaries and identify new units of comparative historical analysis. The essays are written in a clear, provocative and lively manner and, taken as a whole, they provide a sophisticated and authoritative overview of the scholarship that has shaped our current understanding of Early Medieval British History. [572 Pages, Softcover]

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A Companion to Archaic Greece

Raaflaub, Kurt A. / van Wees, Hans (eds.) — 10 Dec 2012 08:19:51 +0100

In 31 chapters, this Companion systematically covers the literary and archaeological evidence for all regions of the Greek world and all aspects of archaic Greek society and culture, including their Mediterranean context and the impact of non-Greek cultures on their development. It is a welcome introduction for undergraduate students and an invaluable reference tool for the professional historian. [788 Pages, Softcover]

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A Companion to Ancient History

Erskine, Andrew (ed.) — 10 Dec 2012 08:19:48 +0100

Comprising more than 40 essays by leading international scholars, this volume moves beyond a conventional focus on Greece and Rome and provides coverage of the many cultures within the ancient Mediterranean. Examining a diverse range of material, from ancient texts and archaeology to contemporary research on gender and sexuality, the Companion explores the problems, approaches, and major themes in the study of ancient history. [732 Pages, Softcover]

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A Companion to Gender Prehistory

Bolger, Diane (ed.) — 12 Nov 2012 08:18:43 +0100

A Companion to Gender Prehistory offers a broad overview of the field that has evolved over the last few decades into an exploration of the gender dimension in behavior throughout our ancient past. Leading scholars provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of developments in the field, evaluating research around the globe and addressing problems of prehistoric material culture, bodies and identity, the goddess figure, and feminism. This new companion will be an authoritative guide for researchers, instructors and students in anthropology, archaeology, and gender studies. [672 Pages, Hardcover]

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A Companion to Rock Art

McDonald, Jo / Veth, Peter (eds.) — 13 Aug 2012 08:17:57 +0200

A Companion to Rock Art offers a broad overview of the field that has evolved over the last decades into an exploration of petroglyphic and pictographic art forms around the world. The enigmatic field of rock art continues to engage students and researchers in searching for the elusive meanings in the images and motifs produced by prehistoric and early modern humans. Top international scholars will provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of developments in the field, and this new companion will be an authoritative guide for researchers, instructors and students. [714 Pages, Hardcover]

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Classical Archaeology

Alcock, Susan E. / Osborne, Robin (eds.) — 23 Apr 2012 08:17:40 +0200

This sophisticated volume, authored by leading archaeologists and historians of the classical world, is designed to encourage critical thinking about the role of ancient material culture in modern times and the role of modern preoccupations in shaping the study of ancient material. This volume, comprised of paired essays - one covering the Greek world, the other, the Roman, stimulates a dialogue not only between the two ancient cultures, but between scholars with different historiographic and methodological traditions. [548 Pages, Softcover]

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A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

Potts, D. T. (ed.) — 23 Apr 2012 08:17:35 +0200

A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East is a comprehensive and authoritative overview of ancient material culture from the late Pleistocene to Late Antiquity. This expansive two-volume work includes sixty original essays from an international community of Ancient Near East scholars. With coverage extending from Asia Minor, the eastern Mediterranean and Egypt to the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indo-Iranian borderlands, the book highlights the enormous variation in cultural developments across roughly 11,000 years of human endeavor. [1500 Pages, Hardcover]

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The Complete Archaeology of Greece

Bintliff, John — 23 Apr 2012 08:17:30 +0200

This text provides students an accessible introduction to the Archaeology of Greece from Prehistory to Late Antiquity that features a balanced treatment of the whole of material culture, including but not limited to art and architecture. It offers an integrated treatment of Greek Archaeology from a truly archaeological perspective: the material culture of the area of present-day Greece from earliest human occupation down to the Modern World is unprecedented. [544 Pages, Softcover]

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The Complete Archaeology of Greece

Bintliff, John — 20 Apr 2012 08:18:13 +0200

Entangled

Hodder, Ian (ed.) — 11 Apr 2012 08:17:38 +0200

In his new book, Ian Hodder discusses our human entanglements with material things, and how archaeological evidence can help us to understand the direction of human social and technological change. Things can and do entrap humans and societies into the maintenance and sustaining of material worlds. The earliest agricultural innovations, settlement stability, domestication of plants and animals can all be seen as elaborations of a general process by which humans and things came to depend on each other symbiotically. Using evolutionary theory, and ideas from archaeology and related disciplines, Hodder shows how we can really pay attention to things, the hidden drivers of human progress. [264 Pages, Softcover]

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Entangled

Hodder, Ian (ed.) — 11 Apr 2012 08:17:37 +0200

Archaeological Theory Today

Hodder, Ian — 1 Mar 2012 08:33:52 +0100

Now in a revised and updated second edition, this volume provides an authoritative account of the current status of archaeological theory, as presented by some of its major exponents and innovators over recent decades. It summarizes the latest developments in the field and looks to its future, exploring some of the cutting-edge ideas at the forefront of the discipline. The volume captures the diversity of contemporary archaeological theory. Some authors argue for an approach close to the natural sciences, others for an engagement with cultural debate about representation of the past. Some minimize the relevance of culture to societal change, while others see it as central; some focus on the contingent and the local, others on long-term evolution. While few practitioners in theoretical archaeology would today argue for a unified disciplinary approach, the authors in this volume increasingly see links and convergences between their perspectives. The volume also reflects archaeology's new openness to external influences, as well as the desire to contribute to wider debates. The contributors examine ways in which archaeological evidence contributes to theories of evolutionary psychology, as well as to the social sciences in general, where theories of social relationships, agency, landscape and identity are informed by the long-term perspective of archaeology. The new edition of Archaeological Theory Today will continue to be essential reading for students and scholars in archaeology and in the social sciences more generally. [320 Pages, Hardcover]

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Archaeological Theory Today

Hodder, Ian — 22 Feb 2012 08:17:53 +0100