For the last twenty years or so, archaeologists of Roman Britain, among other provinces,
have been seeking ways of moving beyond the concept of 'Romanisation'as a framework for …

Taking up the challenge to develop a new study of the economic patterns in the ancient
Near East, including what passes for ancient “Israel'(the Persian province of Yehud), this …

This volume is the first text to focus specifically on the archaeology of domestic architecture.
Covering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent decades in areas …

At the end of the Late Bronze Age, around 1200 bc, the Hittite Empire of Anatolia collapsed.
While that collapse has been well studied, the effects on Hittite-held lands are less so, with …

This chapter investigates theoretical and practical relationships between ancient
Mesopotamian images and texts. It starts with observations drawn from studies outside and …

New data from a variety of well-known scholars in Mesoamerican archaeology reveal the
creation, perpetuation, and contestation of politically authoritative relationships between …

Melanesia is a far cry from Mesopotamia, but Marilyn Strathern's delineation of the partible
person in the Pacific offers more than a mere heuristic device for understanding the meaning …

Bodily perception is deeply linked to identity. While scholars of Mesopotamian glyptic
frequently treat cylinder seals as carriers of identity through traditional methodologies …

It is intricate to give a definition of violence as large as all the domains concerned. It's not
only a formal question, it involves also questions and answers evoked by the different …