The history of social theory embodies in and of itself notions of recursive practice.
Functionalism, structuralism, post-structuralism were each acted on by people whose …

The Akkadian period saw a new, unified political structure in southern Mesopotamia, military
expansion in all directions, and a dynasty of kings who have proved fascinating to both …

The typological schemes constructed by many archaeologists to explain the rise and fall of
civilizations have neither accounted for the processual changes involved in the evolution of …

The concepts of'agency'and'identity'have been incorporated into archaeological theory, and
sometimes practice, since the 1980s and 1990s, as part of a realignment of the …

The concept of agency is, as this collection of papers demonstrates, one of the most
productive and exciting themes in archaeological thinking today. I want to argue in this …

This chapter discusses how archaeologists might move beyond the concept of agency, and
explores the role of identity and individuals in re-presenting the past. Archaeology plays a …

" For more than four thousand years, empires have been geographically the largest polities
on Earth, shaping in many respects the human past and present in different epochs and on …

The interplay of ancient textual sources and material culture, and their propensity to produce
contradictory or contested histories of the past, is wellworn intellectual ground in the study of …

Located in modern-day northern Afghanistan, southern Uzbekistan, and southern Tajikistan,
the land of ancient Bactria is situated strategically on the crossroads between the Middle …

WE DO NOT KNOW when someone first held up an ancient object to tell a story about it.
Neither are we certain when the discipline of archaeology was actually born. But we do …