Academic Articles & Research Papers

The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis

List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Ethnogenesis and the Archaeology of Identity I. HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS 2. Spanish-Colonial San Francisco 3. From Casta to Californio, I: Who Lived at El Pr...

Archaeologies of Complexity

An up-to-date and critical analysis of how archaeologists study past societies, Archaeologies of Complexity addresses the nature of contemporary archaeology and the study of social change, and debates the transition from perceived simple, e...

Amazonian Archaeology

Amazonian archaeology has made major advances in recent decades, particularly in understanding coupled human environmental systems. Like other tropical forest regions, prehistoric social formations were long portrayed as small-scale, disper...

Emotion in Archaeology

Despite the establishment of significant traditions of emotion research in many disciplines, there has been little discussion of the state and potential of the archaeological study of emotion. This paper aims to review archaeological approa...

The archaeology of death and burial

The archaeology of death and burial is central to our attempts to understand vanished societies. Through the remains of funerary rituals we learn not only about prehistoric people's attitudes toward death and the afterlife but also about th...

Symmetrical archaeology

Symmetry is an epistemological and ethical principle developed in the social study of scientific practice. This essay connects a symmetrical archaeology to major trends in the discipline since the 1960s and to key components of archaeologic...

Symbolic and Structural Archaeology

This volume presents a searching critique of the more traditional archaeological methodologies and interpretation strategies and lays down a firm philosophical and theoretical basis for symbolist and structuralist studies in archaeology. A ...

El género de la deuda. Circulación de la deuda social entre mujeres de Ciudad Juárez, México

The intention of this paper is to analyze the social debt contracted by women in southeastern Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), within the theoretical framework of feminist economic anthropology based on ethnographic data collected there during 2012 ...

El estilo decorativo en las primeras producciones cerámicas en el valle del río Vinalopó (Alicante) / Decorative Style in Early Pottery Production of the Valley of Vinalopó river (Alicante)

n the present dissertation we study the Neolithic ceramic decorative style from the Vinalopó’s Valley and from the Early Neolithic chronology, based on a sample of six ceramic vases – from Cueva Santa, Arenal de la Virgen, Ledua, Alcudia an...

Los nevados del Aconquija como sitio de frontera y espacio de observación lunar, Tucumán, noroeste de Argentina

Se presentan los aspectos sociales vinculados al concepto de frontera, el ushnu y la observación lunar en el sitio inca de La Ciudacita, provincia de Tucumán, noroeste de Argentina. El análisis se centra en la posibilidad de observar el lun...

Uncovering the Past: DNA Analysis of Skeletal Remains from the Medieval Bosnian City of Bobovac

Numerous archaeological sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina represent a historical heritage and testify to the rich cultural, social, and political life of medieval Bosnia. Bobovac, the capital of the Bosnian Kingdom after King Tvrtko I's coron...

Rings of Power or in Search of Early Elites

The article discusses the problem of identification of prehistoric elites on the example of the Usatovo culture. Archaeological evidence allows us to discern in the culture three separate strata or classes which are conditionally designated...

Archaeology as Anthropology

Abstract It is argued that archaeology has made few contributions to the general field of anthropology with regard to explaining cultural similarities and differences. One major factor contributing to this lack is asserted to be the tendenc...

Nomads in Archaeology

Nomads in Archaeology addresses the problem of how to study mobile peoples using archaeological techniques. It therefore deals not only with the prehistory and archaeology of nomads but also with current issues in theory and methodology, pa...

The Archaeology of Inequality.

The archaeology of inequality - material culture, domination and resistance, Rober T.Paynter and Randall H.McGuire struggling with pots in South Carolina, Leland Ferguson the continued pattern of dominance - landlord and tenant on the postb...

Social Theory and Archaeology.

ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE BODY

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 in the past through the juxtaposition of traces of body pra...

A History of Archaeological Thought

In its original edition, Bruce Trigger's book was the first ever to examine the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. Now, in this new edition, he both updates the original work and ...

An archaeology of capitalism

Capitalism has been the focus of a great deal of social thinking and activity since the 18th-century. Understanding capitalism as both an economic and a cultural phenomenon has shed light on its inner workings as a system as well as guided ...

The Archaeology of Ethnicity

The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to territory, often rely on reconstructions of the past based on the traditional identification of 'cultures' from archaeologic...