An Archaeology of Materials sets out a new approach to the study of raw materials.
Traditional understandings of materials in archaeology (and in western thought more widely) …

This article examines the role of red deer antler 'masks' recovered from the Early Mesolithic
site of Star Carr in northern England. It explores the agency of animals and the type of …

Humans occupy a material environment that is constantly changing. Yet in the twentieth
century archaeologists studying British prehistory have overlooked this fact in their search …

HOW DO WE IDENTIFY the point at which a Mesolithic society becomes a Neolithic one?
For the culture-historic archaeology of the earlier twentieth century, this question was …

The concept of a socially constructed space of human activity in areas of everyday actions,
as initially proposed in the field of anthropology by Tim Ingold, has actually been much more …

The Mesolithic period under consideration in this thesis, from c. 8000 cal. BC to c. 4000 cal.
BC, covers about 40% of the time that people have inhabitiated Ireland since the end of the …

It is fascinating to read Tim Ingold's reflections on writing 'The Temporality of the
Landscape'(1993), more than 20 years after the event. His article was originally published at …

... Human niches are defined to a large extent by technology, even among foragers. There
are horse-mounted, bow-and-arrow hunters of bison, harpoon hunters of walrus who travel …

This article outlines the development of landscape archaeology in Britain from two
perspectives, namely: methods used to identify patterns and changes in the landscape; and …

Hunter-gatherer societies are constrained by their environment and the technologies
available to them. However, until now the role of culture in foraging communities has not …