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REANIMATING INDUSTRIAL SPACES
Hilary Orange (ed)
Reanimating Industrial Spaces explores the relationships between people and the places of former industry through approaches that incorporate and critique memory-work. The contributors have created a set of diverse case studies which examine differing socio-economic contexts and approaches to industrial spaces both in the past and in contemporary society. A range of memory-work is also illustrated throughout the volume.
WRAPPING AND UNWRAPPING OF MATERIAL CULTURE
Susanna Harris & Laurence Douny (eds)
This innovative volume challenges contemporary views on material culture by exploring the relationship between wrapping materials and practices and the objects, bodies, and places that define them. Using diverse examples and employing methods of artifact analysis, microscopy, and participant observation, the contributors provide a new lens on material culture and its relationship to cultural meaning.
ARCHAEOLOGY OF AFRICAN PLANT USE
Chris Stevens, Sam Nixon, Mary Anne Murray & Dorian Fuller (eds)
The first major synthesis of African archaeobotany in decades, this book brings together papers presented at the 5th meeting of the International Workshop for African Archaeobotany (IWAA 5), as well as invited authors, and represents an important contribution to this growing focus of research. The themes of the papers cover such diverse topics as primate plant use, diet and evolution, palaeoenvironmental change, domestication, agriculture, iron production and historical linguistics.
The Archaeology of Island Colonisation and Abandonment
This volume advances theoretical discussions of island archaeology by offering a comparative study of the archaeology of colonisation, abandonment, and resettlement of the Mediterranean islands in prehistory. This comparative and thematic study encourages anthropological reflections on the archaeology of the islands, ultimately focusing on people rather than geographical units, and specifically on the relations between islanders, mainlanders, and the creation of islander identities.
COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL SPACES
Andrew Bevan & Mark Lake (eds)
The volume of original chapters written by experts in the field reflects the changes in computational technology over the past decade and offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being explored through computational social science. Examples from historic and prehistoric sites in Europe, Asia, and the Americas demonstrate the variety of applications available to the contemporary researcher.
ORIGINS AND SPREAD OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN SOUTHWEST ASIA AND EUROPE
Sue Colledge, James Conolly, Keith Dobney, Katie Manning & Stephen Shennan (eds)
This new comprehensive volume of original work by more than 30 leading international researchers tackles the fundamental and broad-scale questions concerning the spread of early animal herding from its origins in the Near East into Europe beginning in the mid-10th millennium BC using a wealth of comparative information gathered as a result of research funded at the Institute by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and European Research Council.