Under the influence of phenomenological approaches, a semiotic perspective on the body is
being replaced in archaeology by analysis of the production and experience of lived bodies …

Does sexuality have a past? A growing body of archaeological research on sexuality
demonstrates that the sexual politics of the past were as richly varied and complex as those …

An Archaeology of the Cosmos seeks answers to two fundamental questions of humanity
and human history. The first question concerns that which some use as a defining element of …

What work does the adjective 'social'in social archaeology do? What is the character of
human/things relations under the rubric of social archaeology? We raise these questions in …

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

We argue that since agency and structure are indivisible parts of a single process through
which society is continuously created over time, everything that persists or changes in …

It is notable how little gender archaeology has been written for the European Neolithic, in
contrast to the following Bronze Age. We cannot blame this absence on a lack of empirical …

In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in
contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences …

Gender is only one of many axes of identity that may be involved in the construction of
personhood. Sexed and/or gendered bodies are always simultaneously combined …

The first step in creating a transgender archaeology is a destructive one: tearing off the
layers of unsupported assumptions about sex and gender that encrust the archaeological …