Books in the One World Archaeology series

Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase in the fields of cultural heritage studies and community archaeology worldwide with expanding discussions about the mechanisms and consequences of community participation.

The chapters in this book discuss successes and failures of past land use and settlement in drylands, and contribute to wider debates about desertification and the sustainability of dryland settlement.

Archaeology has an often contentious relationship with the consequences of economic development. Looking ahead, the contributions to this volume constitute a global conversation on the most salient issue facing archaeology as it interacts with economic development: Is collision with development still the best course?

Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase in the fields of cultural heritage studies and community archaeology worldwide with expanding discussions about the mechanisms and consequences of community participation.

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This pioneering collection illustrates and explores the diversity of archaeological approaches to time. The contributors contrast a scientific understanding with social, cultural and religious ideas of time.

This volume provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to produce a rich historical narrative.

This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past.

Archaeology has an often contentious relationship with the consequences of economic development. Looking ahead, the contributions to this volume constitute a global conversation on the most salient issue facing archaeology as it interacts with economic development: Is collision with development still the best course?

The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement.

This unique and fascinating book concentrates on the varying roles and functions that material culture may play in almost all aspects of the social fabric of a given culture. The contributors, from Africa, Australia and Papua New Guinea, India, South America, the USA, and both Eastern and Western Europe, provide a rich variety of views and experience in a worldwide perspective. Several of the authors focus on essential points of principle and methodology that must be carefully considered before any particular approach to material culture is adopted. One of the many fundamental questions posed in the book is whether or not all material culture is equivalent to documents which can be ''read'' and interpreted by the outside observer. If it is, what is the nature of the ''messages'' or meanings conveyed in this way? The book also questions the extent to which acceptance, and subsequent diffusion, of a religious belief or symbol may be qualified by the status of the individuals concerned in transmitting the innovation, as well as by the stratification of the society involved. Several authors deal with ''works of art'' and the most effective means of reaching an understanding of their past significance. In some chapters semiotics is seen as the most appropriate technique to apply to the decoding of the assumed rules and grammars of material culture expression.

Examines the critical implications of cultural identity from a variety of perspectives. Questions the nature and limits of archaeological knowledge of the past and the relationship of material culture to cultural identity.

This volume presents a collection of interdisciplinary collaborations between contemporary art, heritage, anthropological, and archaeological practitioners. Established topics such as cave art, monumental architecture and land art will be discussed alongside contemporary video art, performance art and relational arts practices.

Repatriation of human remains has become a key international heritage concern. This extensive collection of papers provides a survey of the current state of repatriation in terms of policy, practice and theory.

The Neolithic period is noted primarily for the change from hunter-gatherer societies to agriculture, domestication and sedentism. Additionally as agriculture moved west and north in this era, the architecture and material culture shows this change and its significance.

The volume presents cogent arguments and methods for the study of change, in a range of essays by experts from the humanities, social and natural sciences, and archaeology.

This text on historical archaeology aims to encourage research that goes beyond the boundaries between prehistory and history. It ranges in subject matter from Roman Britain and Classical Greece, to colonial Africa, Brazil and the United States.

The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement.

Early Human Behaviour in a Global Context promises to become a basic reference for students and professionals who are interested in prehistory, Paleolithic archaeology, and paleoanthropology.

This collection deals with the controversial question of the origin of language; the validity of deep-level reconsruction; the sociolinguistic modelling of prehistory; and the use of oral tradition.

Explores the concept of "sacred" and what it means and implies to people in differing cultures. This book looks at why people regard some parts of the land special and why this ascription remains constant in some cultures and changes in others.

International contributors examine the way in which modern technology is revolutionising arch- aeological knowledge. Will improved techniques and communication lead to the democratisation of archaeological knowledge on a global basis?

Repatriation of human remains has become a key international heritage concern. This extensive collection of papers provides a survey of the current state of repatriation in terms of policy, practice and theory.

A study of human understanding of animate nature, from an archaeological and anthropological viewpoint. It is based on papers given at the World Archaeological Congress in 1986, under the title of "Semantics of Animal Symbolism".

This volume examines and gives representational examples of the respective approaches and roles of government, universities and the private sector in meeting the educational and training needs and challenges of practicing archeologists today.