Fragmentation in Archaeology revolutionises archaeological studies of material culture, by
arguing that the deliberate physical fragmentation of objects, and their (often structured) …

In popular culture, such diverse characters as occultist Aleister Crowley, Doors musician Jim
Morrison, and performance artist Joseph Beuys have been called shamans. In anthropology …

In this article we address the question of the emergence and development of copper and
iron metallurgy in Eurasia in relation to a historical debate within archaeology and …

Cultural identity is a key area of debate in contemporary Europe. Despite widespread use of
the past in the construction of ethnic, national and European identity, theories of cultural …

Fragments of ancient belief mingle with folklore and Christian dogma until the original tenets
are lost in the myths and psychologies of the intervening years. Hilda Ellis Davidson …

Using archaeology and social anthropology, and more than 100 original line drawings and
photographs, An Archaeology of Images takes a fresh look at how ancient images of both …

In this pathbreaking book, the authors show that the ancient Indians were no primitives but
possessed a high spiritual culture, which not only influenced the evolution of the Western …

The 'bog bodies' of north-western Europe have captured the imagination of poets as much
as archaeologists, confronting us with human remains where time has stopped–allowing us …

This paper reviews the evidence for the carnyx, the Iron Age animal-headed horn, in its
European setting. The starting point is the head from Deskford, north-east Scotland: the …

The public's fascination with archaeology has meant that archaeologists have had to deal
with media more regularly than other scholarly disciplines. How archaeologists …