This Element was written to meet the theoretical and methodological challenge raised by the
third science revolution and its implications for how to study and interpret European …

In a famous essay (The Death of the Author 1967, reprinted 1977) the literary critic Roland
Barthes questioned whether the existence of an author gets in our way in a critical encounter …

Since aDNA research suggested a marked gene influx from Eastern into Central Europe in
the 3rd millennium bc, outdated, simplistic narratives of massive migrations of closed …

This paper is concerned with the impact of ancient DNA data on our models of the Mesolithic–
Neolithic transition in central Europe. Beginning with a brief overview of how genetic data …

Whereas German-speaking archaeology (GSA) has long been understood as generally
uninterested in theoretical debates, the situation has taken a most interesting development …

This somewhat pompous title serves two aims; one is to draw attention to a topic that ought
to be of concern to every scholar interested in prehistoric Egypt, the origins of Pharaonic …

Archaeological chronologies tend to conflate temporalities from all cultural contexts in a
region without consideration for the different depositional trajectories and life histories of the …

Abstract The Bronze Age has sometimes been presented as the first period of
'globalisation'or 'world system'in Europe. I propose that in order to apply such terms onto the …

The NSG is an informal organisation comprising archaeologists with an interest in Neolithic
archaeology. It was established in 1984 and has a large membership based mainly in the …

Abstract Das Hauptinteresse sozialgeschichtlicher Analysen in der Archäologie gilt der
Identifikation sozialer Gruppen und Schichten, wobei eindeutig die Eliten im Mittelpunkt …