(Ebook) Archaeology The Key Concepts 1st Edition by Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn ISBN 0415317576 9780203491096

(Ebook) Archaeology The Key Concepts 1st Edition by Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn ISBN 0415317576 9780203491096

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ISBN 10: 0415317576 
ISBN 13: 9780203491096
Author: Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn

From two of the best-known archaeological writers in the trade, this outstanding resource provides a thorough survey of the key ideas in archaeology, and how they impact on archaeological thinking and method. Clearly written, and easy to follow, Archaeology: The Key Concepts collates entries written specifically by field specialists, and each entry offers a definition of the term, its origins and development, and all the major figures involved in the area. The entries include: thinking about landscape archaeology of cult and religion cultural evolution concepts of time urban societies the antiquity of humankind archaeology of gender feminist archaeology experimental archaeology multiregional evolution. With guides to further reading, extensive cross-referencing, and accessibly written for even beginner students, this book is a superb guide for anyone studying, teaching, or with any interest in this fascinating subject.

(Ebook) Archaeology The Key Concepts 1st Table of contents:

1. List of Key Concepts
2. Contributors
3. Introduction
4. Key Concepts
5. Agency
6. The antiquity of man
7. Archaeoastronomy
8. Archaeogenetics
9. Catastrophist archaeology
10. The chaîne opératoire
11. Characterisation and exchange theory
12. Childe's revolutions
13. Cognitive archaeology
14. Archaeology of cult and religion
15. Cultural evolution
16. ‘Dark Ages’ in archaeology/systems collapse
17. Darwinian archaeology
18. Ideas in relative and absolute dating
19. The descent of man
20. Theorising diffusion and population movements
21. Ecological archaeology
22. Environmental archaeology
23. Epistemology
24. Ethnoarchaeology
25. The evolution of social complexity and the state
26. Key ideas in excavation
27. Experimental archaeology
28. Feminist archaeology
29. Archaeological formation processes
30. Gender archaeology
31. Habitus
32. Historical archaeology and text
33. Holistic/contextual archaeology
34. Indigenous archaeologies
35. Innovation and invention – independent event or historical process?
36. Thinking about landscape
37. Material engagement and materialisation
38. Materialism, Marxism and archaeology
39. Mental modularity
40. Multiregional evolution
41. Non-linear processes and archaeology
42. Notions of the person
43. Organisation of societies, including chiefdoms
44. Peer polity interaction
45. Phenomenological archaeology
46. Post-processual and interpretive archaeology
47. Processual archaeology
48. Public archaeology/museology/conservation/heritage
49. Simulation
50. Site catchment analysis
51. Social archaeology
52. Theory of social practice
53. Principles of stratigraphic succession
54. Survey
55. Symbolic and structuralist archaeology
56. Systems thinking
57. The Three Ages
58. Concepts of time
59. Uniformitarianism
60. Index

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