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Archaeology
New to this Edition • Updated treatment of postcolonial approaches and indigenous archaeology, with coverage of the ontological turn in archaeology, and new examples of community …
Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies
The origins of religion and ritual in humans have been the focus of centuries of thought in archaeology, anthropology, theology, evolutionary psychology and more. Play and ritual …
How Things Shape the Mind
An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.An increasingly influential school of thought in …
Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership
In this account, Colin Renfrew illustrates how the most precious product of archaeology is the information that controlled and well-published excavations can give us about our …
Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind
In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records the overwhelming majority of our time …
Archaeology
'As indispensable to an archaeology student as a trowel ... every student, or indeed any interested amateur, should really find a space on their shelf for this useful book’ Minerva …
The Cambridge World Prehistory 3 Volume HB Set
The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa …
The Archaeology of Measurement
The construction of formal measurement systems underlies the development of science, technology, economy and new ways of understanding and explaining the world. Human societies …
An Island Polity
The Greek island of Melos in the Cyclades has been inhabited for at least five thousand years. Two periods of its history are well documented: the late Bronze Age, when it …
Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis
Linguistic diversity is one of the most puzzling and challenging features of humankind. Why are there some six thousand different languages spoken in the world today? Why are …