Archaeology Readings

Barton, C. Michael and Geoffrey A. Clark, eds. Rediscovering Darwin: Evolutionary Theory and Archaeological Explanation. Ed. Michael E. Whalen. Archaeological Papers of the American Athropological Association, No. 7:  1997.

Benedict, Ruth.  Patterns of Culture. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1934.

Binford, L.R.  In Pursuit of the Past.  New York:  Thames and Hudson, 1983.

Binford, Lewis R.  "Archaeology as Anthropology."  American Antiquity.  28: 217-225.  1962.

Claassen and Rosemary A. Joyce, Eds. Women in Prehistory; North America and Mesoamerica. Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press: 1997.

Dobres, Marcia Ann and John Robb, eds.  Agency in Archaeology.  New York:  Routledge, 2000.

Ehrenreich, Robert, Carole L. Crumley and Janet E. Levy, eds. Heterarchy and the Analysis of Complex Societies.  Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association No. 6.  Arlington, Virginia: the American Anthropological Association, 1995.

Gilchrist, Roberta. Gender and Archaeology: Contesting the Past.  New York: Routlege, 1999.

Harris, Marvin. Cultural Materialism:  The Struggle for a Science of Culture.  New York: Random House, 1979.

Hodder, Ian  Reading the Past; Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology.  Cambridge:  Cambridge UP, 1986.

Hopkins, Keith.  A World Full of Gods:  The Strange Triumph of Christianity.  New York:  The Free Press,  2000.

Jones, Sian. The Archaeology of Ethnicity: Constructing Identities in the Past and Present.  New York: Routlege, 1997.

Little, Barbara, ed.   Text-Aided Archaeology.  Boca Raton, Florida:  CRC PRess, 1992.

Lowenthal, David.  The Past is a Foreign Country.  New York, Cambridge UP, 1985.

Nelson, Sarah Milledge. Gender in Archaelogy.  London:  Altamira Press, 1997.

Renfrew, Colin and Ezra W. B. Zubrow.  The Ancient Mind:  Elements of Cognitive Archaeology.  Cambridge:  University of Cambridge Press, 1994.

Renfrew, Colin and Paul Bahn. Archaeology; Theories Methods and Practice. New York: Thames  and Hudson, 1991.

Shanks, Michael and Christopher Tilley.  Social Theory and Archaeology. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 1987.

Small, David, ed.  Methods in the Mediterranean; Historical and Archaeological Views on Text and Archeaology.  New York:  E. J. Brill, 1995.

Windschuttle, Keith.  The Killing of History; How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past.  San Francisco:  Encounter Books, 1996.

Yoffee, Norman and Andrew Sherrat, eds.  Archaeological Theory: who sets the agenda?  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.

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