(Ebook) Change and Archaeology; First Edition by Rachel J. Crellin ISBN 9781315232850, 1315232855

(Ebook) Change and Archaeology; First Edition by Rachel J. Crellin ISBN 9781315232850, 1315232855

Change and Archaeology explores how archaeologists have historically described, interpreted, and explained  change, and argues that change has been under-theorised. The study of change is central to the discipline of  archaeology, but change is complex, and this makes it challenging to write about in nuanced ways that  effectively capture the nature of our world. Relational approaches offer archaeologists more scope to explore  change in complex and subtle ways. Change and Archaeology presents a posthumanist, post- anthropocentric, new materialist approach to change. It argues that our world is constantly in the process of  becoming and always on the move. By recasting change as the norm rather than the exception and  distributing it between both humans and non-humans, this book offers a new theoretical framework for  exploring change in the past that allows us to move beyond blocktime approaches where change is located  only in transitional moments and periods are characterised by blocks of stasis. Archaeologists, scholars,  anthropologists and historians interested in the theoretical frameworks we use to interpret the past will find  this book a fascinating new insight into the way our world changes and evolves. The approaches presented within will be of use to anyone studying and writing about the way societies and their environs move  through time.