Books in the Principles of Archaeology series

Archaeological field survey methods developed over half a century combine with powerful new quantitative tools for spatial analysis to unleash new potential for identifying and studying ancient local communities and regional polities. This volume details these changes.

Zooarchaeologists increasingly focus onconservation biology. This book uses a series of case studies explore the types of interdisciplinary challenges that zooarchaeologists face when crossing into the world of environmental management and animal conservation.

In this book Timothy Earle argues that studying chiefdoms is essential to understanding the role of elemental powers in social evolution. He studies chiefs and their power strategies in historically independent prehistoric and traditional societies and shows how chiefs continue to exist as powerful actors within modern states.