The contributions to this volume are introduced via a critical review of terms and concepts
used in craft production studies today. Recent detailed contextual and technological …

Change and Archaeology explores how archaeologists have historically described,
interpreted, and explained change, and argues that change has been under-theorised. The …

In light of the growing social scientific interest in agency theory, this paper sets out to
examine and critically evaluate recent approaches to agency within archaeology. To this …

Agency theory has been used in archaeology for over twenty years now. During that time
what agency has meant and the problems it has been used to study have changed …

The study of the human-made world, whether it is called artifacts, material culture, or
technology, has burgeoned across the academy. Archaeologists have for cen-ries led the …

Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Chatinos: Ancient Peoples of Southern Mexico examines the origins,
history, and interrelationships of the civilizations that arose and flourished in Oaxaca …

I review several bodies of empirical urban theory relevant to the archaeological analysis of
ancient cities. Empirical theory is a type of “middle-range theory”(following Robert Merton) …

This article argues that the agency of commoners has not been adequately theorized in
archaeological studies of the political dynamics of complex societies. Recent developments …

In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link
between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic …

Emerging leaders may replicate and expand traditional rituals to integrate increasingly
larger numbers of people, advance political agendas, and situate political change within …