Comparative Archaeologies

 

  Author: Katina T. Lillios       ISBN: 9781935488262

  Format: HB                      Extent: 312 pp.

  Price: £40                        Publication: March 2011

  Publisher: Oxbow Books

Comparative Archaeologies scrutinises current thinking on the dynamics and historical trajectories of complex societies in the American Southwest (AD 900-1500) and the Iberian Peninsula (BC 3000-1500) through a focused comparison of five themes: Histories, Landscapes, Bodies, Gender and Art. Leading archaeologists from North America and Europe - drawing on diverse intellectual traditions - engage in this innovative form of comparative archaeology, which recognises both the historicities of past societies of similar forms and the social embeddedness of archaeological practice and theory.