An Archaeology of Materials: Substantial Transformations in Early Prehistoric Europe

by Chantal Conneller

An Archaeology of Materials sets out a new approach to the study of raw materials. Traditional understandings of materials in archaeology (and in western thought more widely) have failed to acknowledge both the complexity and, moreover, the benefits of an analysis of materials. Here Conneller argues that materials cannot be understood independently of the practices through which they are constituted. Drawing on a number of different thinkers, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415881307
• ISBN13: 9780415881302
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"