Material culture - the objects made by man - provides the primary data from which archaeologists have to infer the economies, technologies, social organization

This volume addresses the entanglement between archaeology, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and war. Popular sentiment in the West has tended to embrace t

These case studies offer new approaches to the analysis and interpretation of symbols in a variety of media and as expressed on a range of objects at different

"Archaeologist Genevieve von Petzinger looks past the horses, bison, ibex, and faceless humans in the ancient paintings and instead focuses on the abstract geom

The papers in this volume represent a range of approaches to the study of the symbolic roles of animals in human cultures. The theme that unites these papers is