(P/B) ARCHAEOLOGY

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This invaluable resource provides an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of key ideas in archaeology and their impact on archaeological thinking and method. Featuring over fifty detailed entries by international experts, the book offers definitions of key terms, explaining their origin and development. Entries also feature guides to further reading and extensive cross-referencing. (from the publisher)

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Agency
The antiquity of man
Archaeoastronomy
Archaeogenetics
Catastrophist archaeology
The chaine opemtoire
Characterisation and exchange theory
Childe's revolutions
Cognitive archaeology
Archaeology of cult and religion
Cultural evolution
'Dark Ages' in archaeology/systems collapse
Darwinian archaeology
Ideas in relative and absolute dating
The descent of man
Theorising diffusion and population movements
Ecological archaeology
Environmental archaeology
Epistemology
Ethnoarchaeology
The evolution of social complexity and the state
Key ideas in excavation
Experimental archaeology
Feminist archaeology
Archaeological formation processes
Gender archaeology
Habitus
Historical archaeology and text
Holistic/contextual archaeology
Indigenous archaeologies
Innovation and invention - independent event or historical process?
Thinking about landscape
Material engagement and materialisation
Materialism, Marxism and archaeology
Mental modularity
Multiregional evolution
Non-linear processes and archaeology
Notions of the person
Organisation of societies, including chiefdoms
Peer polity interaction
Phenomenological archaeology
Post-processual and interpretive archaeology
Processual archaeology
Public archaeology / museology / conservation / heritage
Simulation
Site catchment analysis
Social archaeology
Theory of social practice
Principles of stratigraphic succession
Survey
Symbolic and structuralist archaeology
Systems thinking
The Three Ages
Concepts of time
Uniformitarianism