Archaeology
Archaeology is the study of the material remains of the global human past from five million years ago (when the first human ancestors appeared) to the 21st century. Archaeology focuses on the past, but is also concerned with the use of the past in the present and the manner in which past landscapes, buildings, artifact and remains of humans, animals and plants are used in tune with current cultural norms and political pressures which vary across the world. Oxford Handbooks Online in Archaeology will seek to combine works of original scholarship with authoritative overviews of particular subjects. The combination of printed books through the Handbook series and on-line articles on topical subjects and contentious issues provide both a depth of coverage and more immediate commentary. The resource will provide coverage of all the major geographical areas of the world, countering any tendency towards Euro-American bias, as well as specific topic areas of current and lasting interest, combining also theoretical discussion with empirical content. The online material will allow for the possibility of connecting up various articles and books to navigate through our knowledge of the past in new ways, discerning and elaborating a newly holistic approach to the past.
Editor in Chief
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Chris Gosden is Professor of European Archaeology, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Trustee of the Art Fund. He has carried out archaeological and ethnographic work in Britain, central Europe, Papua New Guinea, Turkmenistan and Borneo. His current interests concern the nature of human relations with the world, late prehistoric and Roman period cultural change, art and aesthetics. Recent works include Gosden, C. 1999. Archaeology and Anthropology: a changing relationship. London: Routledge. Gosden, C. 2003. Prehistory. A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Gosden, C. 2004. Archaeology and Colonialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Gosden, C. and C. Knowles. 2001. Collecting colonialism: material culture and colonial change in Papua New Guinea. Oxford: Berg. Gosden, C. 2005. What do objects want? in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 12: 193-211. Gosden, C. and F. Larson, with A. Petch. 2007. Knowing Things: Exploring the Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum 1884-1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Gosden, C. 2008. Social Ontologies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363: 2003-2010. Garrow, D and C. Gosden. 2012. A Technology of Enchantment? Exploring Celtic Art: 400 BC to AD 100. Oxford: Oxford University Press. He is currently working on a book on Englishness on the basis of the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum.
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Editorial Board
| Senior Editors | ||
| Christina Riggs University of East Anglia Stephen W. Silliman University of Massachusetts, Boston Nicky Milner University of York |
Adam T. Smith Cornell University Xingcan Chen The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences |
Paul Lane University of York Dorian Fuller University College London |
Volume Editors
| Mark Aldenderfer University of California, Merced James P. Allen Brown University Bettina Arnold University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Mary C. Beaudry Boston University Guy Bradley Cardiff University John Carman University of Birmingham Eleanor Casella University of Manchester Alexis Catsambis U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Gary Crawford University of Toronto Sally Crawford Institute of Archaeology, Oxford Vicki Cummings University of Central Lancashire Barry Cunliffe Oxford University Harry Fokkens Universiteit Leiden Ben Ford Indiana University of Pennsylvania Chris Fowler Newcastle University Max Friesen University of Toronto Andrew Gardner University College London Chris Gosden University of Oxford Paul Graves-Brown Independent researcher Peter Guest Cardiff University Helena Hamerow University of Oxford Donny L. Hamilton Texas A&M University Anthony Harding University of Exeter Jan Harding Newcastle University |
Rodney Harrison The Open University Colin Haselgrove University of Leicester Dan Hicks Oxford University David A. Hinton University of Southampton Corinne L. Hofman Leiden University Daniela Hofmann Cardiff University Timothy Insoll The University of Manchester Peter Jordan University of Aberdeen Rosemary A. Joyce UC Berkeley Simon Kaner University of East Anglia M. Anne Katzenberg University of Calgary William F. Keegan Florida Museum of Natural History Fiona Kidd New York University Ann E. Killebrew Pennsylvania State University Mark Lake University College London José Luis Lanata University of Cambridge and University of Buenos Aires Paul Lane University of York Gyoung-Ah Lee University of Oregon Julia Lee-Thorp University of California, Berkeley Owen Mason University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Alaska Quaternary Center Carol McDavid Community Archaeology Research Institute, Inc. Gregory McMahon University of New Hampshire Francesco Menotti University of Basel |
Peter Mitchell Oxford University Michael Nevel University of Salford Deborah L. Nichols Dartmouth College Liv Nilsson Stutz Emory University Aidan O'Sullivan University College Dublin Timothy R. Pauketat New York University Angela Piccini Bristol University Daniel T. Potts University of Sydney Reniel Rodríguez Ramos Universidad de Puerto Rico-Utuado Katharina Rebay-Salisbury University of Leicester Christina Riggs University of East Anglia Ian Shaw University of Liverpool Robin Skeates Durham University Ulrike Sommer University College London Sören Stark New York University Sharon Steadman SUNY Cortland Margreet Steiner Leiden University James Symonds University of York Sarah Tarlow University of Leicester Peter Wells University of Minnesota Ruth Westgate Cardiff University James Whitley Cardiff University Laurie Wilkie UC Berkeley Marek Zvelebi University of Sheffield |
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