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ARCHAEOLOGY:
THE KEY CONCEPTS
This invaluable resource provides an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of key ideas in archaeology and their impact on archaeological thinking and method. Featuring over fifty detailed entries by international experts, the book offers definitions of key terms, explaining their origin and development. Entries also feature guides to further reading and extensivecross-referencing. Subjects covered include: ● Thinking about landscape ● Cultural evolution ● Social archaeology ● Gender archaeology ● Experimental archaeology ● Archaeology of cult and religion ● Concepts of time ● The Antiquity of Man ● Feminist archaeology ● Multiregional evolution Archaeology: The Key Concepts is the ideal reference guide for students, teachers and anyone with an interest inarchaeology. Colin Renfrew is Emeritus Disney Professor of Archaeology and Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge. Paul Bahn is a freelance writer, translator and broadcaster on archaeology.

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ARCHAEOLOGY
The Key Concepts
Edited by

Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2005 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX 14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canadaby Routledge 270 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “ To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/.” © 2005 Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn for selection and editorialmatter; the contributors for individual entries. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing inPublication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this title has been requested ISBN 0-203-49109-2 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-60160-2 (Adobe e-reader Format) ISBN 0-415-31757-6 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-31758-4 (pbk)

CONTENTS
List of Key Concepts Contributors Introduction vi viii x

KEYCONCEPTS

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Index

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KEY CONCEPTS
Agency The antiquity of man Archaeoastronomy Archaeogenetics Catastrophist archaeology The chaîne opératoire Characterisation and exchange theory Childe’s revolutions Cognitive archaeology Archaeology of cult and religion Cultural evolution ‘Dark Ages’ in archaeology/ systems collapse Darwinian archaeology Ideas in relative and absolute dating The descent of manTheorising diffusion and population movements Ecological archaeology Environmental archaeology Epistemology Ethnoarchaeology The evolution of social complexity and the state Key ideas in excavation Experimental archaeology Feminist archaeology Archaeological formation processes Gender archaeology Habitus Historical archaeology and text Holistic/contextual archaeology Indigenous archaeologiesInnovation and invention—independent event or historical process? Thinking about landscape Material engagement and materialisation Materialism, Marxism and archaeology Mental modularity Multiregional evolution Non-linear processes and archaeology Notions of the person Organisation of societies, including chiefdoms Peer polity interaction

Phenomenological archaeology Post-processual and interpretive...