This paper argues that the conception of ritual employed in both archaeology and
anthropology is a product of post-Enlightenment rationalism. Because it does not meet …

With the advent of processual archaeology in the mid-1960s, the analysis of house floor
assemblages came to play a central role in archaeological reconstructions of social …

The scale and nature of early cultivation are topics that have received relatively limited
attention in research on the origins of agriculture. In Southwest Asia, one the earliest centers …

Since the nineteenth century, mass-production, consumerism and cycles of material
replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are increasingly …

Population displacement, resettlement, and migration constitute important dimensions in a
general process of “cultural construction.” A pedestrian survey and extensive excavations of …

The importance of identifying activity areas on archaeological sites has focussed much
ethnoarchaeological and geoarchaeological research on floor formation processes …

Concepts of refuse behavior and site abandonment have been developed that show
potential to distinguish degrees of mobility and sedentism among past human communities …

Unlike floors that have been given a lot of attention in archaeological research, the study of
roofs is long neglected. Here, we present a study of modern abandoned and burnt mud brick …

In this paper I shall explore a hitherto neglected dimension of the Greeks' complex
relationship with the sea: its use and perception as 'a place of no return'and an 'away-place' …

Differentiating the material patterning between domestic refuse from squatters and
ceremonial trash generated from termination rituals has been difficult for Maya …