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April 2025
Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation
Between Text and Practice
Hausmair, B., Jervis, B., Nugent, R., & Williams, E. (eds)
April 2025
Island Historical Ecology
Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean
Siegel, P. (ed)
February 2024
Identities and Place
Changing Labels and Intersectional Communities of LGBTQ and Two-Spirit People in the United States
Crawford-Lackey, K. & Springate, M. E. (eds)
March 2024
Communities and Place
A Thematic Approach to the Histories of LGBTQ Communities in the United States
Crawford-Lackey, K. & Springate, M. E. (eds)
March 2024
Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure
Remembering Ghosts on the Margins of History
Surface-Evans, S., Garrison, A. E. & Supernant, K. (eds)
April 2025
The Helmand Baluch
A Native Ethnography of the People of Southwest Afghanistan
Amiri, G. R.
February 2025
Agent of Change
The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past
Roth, B. J. & Adams, E. C. (eds)
October 2024
Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic
Augé , C. R.
November 2024
Critical Public Archaeology
Confronting Social Challenges in the 21st Century
Westmont, V. C. (ed)
January 2024
Inclusion, Transformation, and Humility in North American Archaeology
Essays and Other “Great Stuff” Inspired by Kent G. Lightfoot
Mallios, S., Gonzalez, S. L., Grone, M., Hull, K. L., Nelson, P., & Siliman, S. W. (eds)
March 2024
Culturing the Body
Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality
Collins, B. & Nowell, A. (eds)
May 2024
Practical Archaeogaming
Reinhard, A.
July 2024
Machine-Created Culture
Essays on the Archaeology of Digital Things and Places
Reinhard, A.
September 2024
Daisy Wheel, Hexfoil, Hexafoil, Rosette
Protective Marks in Gravestone Art
Lacy, R. S.
October 2024
Mobile Pastoralist Households
Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives
Houle, J.-L. (ed)
December 2024
Sinister and Righteous
Interpreting Left and Right in the Archaeological Record
Augé, C. Riley
February 2025
Carneiro
The Concise Evolutionary Essays
Bates Graber, R. (ed)
March 2025
Haunting Ruins
Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay
Gamberi, V. & Calzana, C. (eds)
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Museum Worlds
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ISSN Print: 2049-6729
ISSN Online: 2049-6737
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Series: International Monographs in Prehistory
Archaeological Series
Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece
Edited by Apostolos Sarris, Evita Kalogiropoulou, Tuna Kalayci, and Evagelia Karimali
Natufian Foragers in the Levant
Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia
Ofer Bar-Yosef and François R. Valla
The Benefit of the Gift
Social Organization and Expanding Networks of Interaction in the Western Great Lakes Archaic
Mark Andrew Hill
Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast
Edited by Elizabeth A. Sobel, D. Ann Trieu Gahr, and Kenneth A. Ames
The Archaeology of Tribal Societies
Edited by William A. Parkinson
Subsistence-Settlement Systems and Intersite Variability in the Moroiso Phase of the Early Jomon Period of Japan
Junko Habu
In the Mind's Eye
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Evolution of Human Cognition
Edited by April Nowell
Folsom Lithic Technology
Explorations in Structure and Variation
Edited by Daniel S. Amick
The Iron Gates Mesolithic
Ivana Radovanovic
Stone Tools and Mobility in the Illinois Valley
From Hunter-Gatherer Camps to Agricultural Villages
George H. Odell
Emergent Complexity
The Evolution of Intermediate Societies
Jeanne E. Arnold
The Origins of Complex Societies in Late Prehistoric Iberia
Katina T. Lillios
Settlement, Economy, and Cultural Change at the End of the European Iron Age
Excavations at Kelheim in Bavaria, 1987-1992
Peter S. Wells
Villages in the Steppe
Late Neolithic Settlement and Subsistence in the Balikh Valley, Northern Syria
Peter M. Akkermans
Human Adaptation at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona
Social and Ecological Perspectives
Joseph A. Ezzo
Islands in the Interior
The Dynamics of Prehistoric Adaptations Within the Arid Zone of Australia
Peter Marius Veth
The Dutch Hunebedden
Megalithic Tombs of the Funnel Beaker Culture
Jan Albert Bakker
Ethnoarchaeology Series
Discerning Palates of the Past
An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Crop Cultivation and Plant Usage in India
Seetha Narahari Reddy
Ethnoarchaeology of Andean South America
Contributions to Archaeological Method and Theory
Edited by Lawrence A. Kuznar
Mobile Farmers
An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Settlement Organization Among the Raramuri of Northwestern Mexico
Martha Graham
Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics
Case Studies from Food-Producing Societies
Edited by Augustin Holl and Thomas Evan Levy
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