Archaeologists have long been interested in contemporary material culture, but only recently
has a dedicated subfield of archaeology of the contemporary world begun to emerge …

An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era approaches the contemporary age, between the
late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, as an archaeological period defined by specific …

“This book exhorts the reader to embrace the materiality of archaeology by recognizing how
every step in the discipline's scientific processes involves interaction with myriad physical …

The bow and arrow is a crucial component of Homo sapiens' material culture. In South
America, data on the bow and arrow are widely scattered, which motived this …

An Archaeology of Resistance: Materiality and Time in an African Borderland studies the
tactics of resistance deployed by a variety of indigenous communities in the borderland …

In the light of some significant anniversaries, this pa-per discusses the fate of archaeological
theory after the heyday of postprocessualism. While once considered a radical and …

Late Pleistocene hominins co-evolved with non-analogue assemblages of carnivores and
carnivorous omnivores. Although previous work has carefully examined the ecological and …

The Bronze Age is frequently framed in social evolutionary terms. Viewed as the period
which saw the emergence of social differentiation, the development of long-distance trade …

In order to find out about and discuss the peopling of the Americas, there is evidence that
comes from a range of scientific disciplines. In archaeology, stone tool vestiges are one of …

The Lives of Stone Tools gives voice to the Indigenous Gamo lithic practitioners of southern
Ethiopia. For the Gamo, their stone tools are alive, and their work in flintknapping is …