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'This outstanding overview creates an effective framework on which to hang 13 diverse papers. The papers are tightly written and good editing has successfully merged them into a very successful volume.' - American Antiquity

Should we keep the physical evidence of conflicts and wars? This collection challenges our perception of cultural heritage, with essays investigating among others Cambodia, the Berlin Wall and concentration camps.

Grounded in case studies from individual objects and museum collections from North America, Europe, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Australia, this truly international volume juxtaposes historical, geographical, and cross-cultural studies.

First text to address the contentious issues raised by the pursuit of archaeology and anthropology in the world today. Calls into question the relationship between western scholars and the contemporary cultures they study.

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.

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 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.

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 work asks whether the idea of world heritage is an essential mechanism for the protection of the world's cultural and natural heritage, or whether it subjugates a diversity of cultural traditions to specifically Western ideas.

Designed for students, researchers and practitioners concerned with archaeological heritage management, this book provides comprehensive, worldwide coverage - including China and the USSR - of public aspects of archaeological survey, conservation, protection and display.

This volume explores the concept of "sacred" and what it means to people in differing cultures. The book attempts to describe the belief systems surrounding such sites and in relating these beliefs and practices to the practical problem of heritage management.

This text presents papers from the third World Archaeological Congress, held in New Delhi in 1994. Contributing to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, it provides varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents.

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.

The contributors to "The Archaeology of Africa" offer new insights and perspectives on a whole range of themes critical to African prehistory and early history.

The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape contributes to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, providing new and varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents.

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.

Archaeology and Language I is representative of groundbreaking work into two areas which have only recently been correlated: linguistics and archaeology.

First text to address the contentious issues raised by the pursuit of archaeology and anthropology in the world today. Calls into question the relationship between western scholars and the contemporary cultures they study.

This work asks whether the idea of world heritage is an essential mechanism for the protection of the world's cultural and natural heritage, or whether it subjugates a diversity of cultural traditions to specifically Western ideas.

As archaeologists have begun to explore the material remains of internment using a range of methods, these interdisciplinary studies have demonstrated the potential to connect individual memories and historical debates to the fragmentary material remains.

Using language to date the origin and spread of food production Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology.

Should we keep the physical evidence of conflicts and wars? This collection challenges our perception of cultural heritage, with essays investigating among others Cambodia, the Berlin Wall and concentration camps.

This volume completes an examination of the potential for archaeology and linguistics to complement one another in the interpretation of prehistory. It provides case studies of artefacts and fragmentary text materials.

This volume tackles the issues of setting subsistence in its social context by focusing on food as a cultural artefact. It brings together contributors with scientific and biological expertise as well as those interested in the patterns of consumption and social change.

Using in depth-case studies, this book explores the aims of the 'reconstruction' of heritage sites and examines the problems and mistakes experienced with representing the past in this way.

Providing a wide overview of African archaeology from around 8000 BC to the present day, the authors (all either African or living there) also offer individual reviews and in-depth studies. Africa emerges as the possessor of a vast and highly complex mix of peoples and cultures.

Covers the examination, identification and interpretations of plant remains in tropical archaeology, whilst also the origins, spread, distribution and past use of tropical plants for food and other purposes.

A unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, exposing sensitive and largely unexplored aspects of the understanding of our common humanity.