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  • Understanding the Archaeological Record

    by Gavin Lucas ...
    This book explores the diverse understandings of the archaeological record in both historical and contemporary perspective, while also serving as a guide to reassessing current views. Gavin Lucas argues that archaeological theory has become both too fragmented and disconnected from the particular nature of archaeological evidence. The book examines three ways of understanding the archaeological ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Archaeological Situations

    Archaeological Theory from the Inside Out

    by Gavin Lucas ...
    This book is an introduction to theory in archaeology – but with a difference. Archaeological Situations avoids talking about theory as if it was something you apply but rather as something embedded in archaeological practice from the start.Rather than see theory as something worked from the outside in, this book explores theory from the inside out, which means it focuses on specific ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Making Time

    The Archaeology of Time Revisited

    by Gavin Lucas ...
    Making Time grapples with a range of issues that have crystallized in the wake of 15 years of discussion on time in archaeology, since the author's seminal volume The Archaeology of Time, synthesizing them for a new generation of scholars.The general understanding of time held by both archaeologists and non-archaeologists is often very simple: a linear notion where time flows along a single path ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Writing the Past

    Knowledge and Literary Production in Archaeology

    by Gavin Lucas ...
    How do archaeologists make knowledge? Debates in the latter half of the twentieth century revolved around broad, abstract philosophies and theories such as positivism and hermeneutics which have all but vanished today. By contrast, in recent years there has been a great deal of attention given to more concrete, practice-based study, such as fieldwork. But where one was too abstract, the other has ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Critical Approaches to Fieldwork

    Contemporary and Historical Archaeological Practice

    by Gavin Lucas ...
    This work takes as its starting point the role of fieldwork and how this has changed over the past 150 years. The author argues against progressive accounts of fieldwork and instead places it in its broader intellectual context to critically examine the relationship between theoretical paradigms and everyday archaeological practice. In providing a much-needed historical and critical evaluation of ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Rad Rides

    The Best BMX Bikes of All Time

    by Gavin Lucas, Stuart Robinson ...
    BMX bikes are iconic. There’s something about them that appeals to kids, adults and cyclists. And, of course, BMX is now an Olympic sport.Rad Rides is the most in-depth exploration of the world of BMX bikes through their riders and the culture that surrounds them. The introduction explains and contextualizes the birth of BMX culture and where it is now, while the main body features bikes ranging ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Archaeology of Time

    by Gavin Lucas ...
    Series series Themes in Archaeology Series
    It might seem obvious that time lies at the heart of archaeology, since archaeology is about the past. However, the issue of time is complicated and often problematic, and although we take it very much for granted, our understanding of time affects the way we do archaeology.This book is an introduction not just to the issues of chronology and dating, but time as a theoretical concept and how this ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Conversations about Time

    by Gavin Lucas, Laurent Olivier ...
    This book presents a conversation between two prominent archaeologists who have been exploring the concept of time in their discipline for several decades. It is a discussion on key issues of time in archaeology filtered through their unique perspectives, which sometimes meet and at other times, clash.Key features include discussions on the nature of change and time in the archaeological record, ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Undoing Things

    How Objects, Bodies and Worlds Come Apart

    Edited by Gavin Lucas, Shannon Lee Dawdy ...
    Series series Archaeological Orientations
    Undoing Things explores all the ways in which things become undone, be they objects, bodies, places, or worlds.Although archaeologists have long attended to the productive dimensions of materiality and material culture as a coherent phenomenon—making objects, building things, constructing identities—the discourse around undoing is more fragmented. Topics such as ruination, death, decay, demolition ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Shadow Archaeologies

    In the Shadow of Antiquity or For Other Modes of Archaeological Worldmaking

    Edited by Assaf Nativ, Gavin Lucas ...
    Series series Archaeological Orientations
    Shadow Archaeologies explores the modes of knowledge production which operate where the light of mainstream, historically oriented archaeology does not reach. It exposes the field’s underbelly and dwells on issues that standard practice ignores or glosses over, questioning what archaeology and the archaeological are or could be.The volume brings together scholars working at the discipline’s ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Interpreting Archaeology

    Finding Meaning in the Past

    Edited by Alexandra Alexandri, Victor Buchli, John Carman, Ian Hodder, Jonathan Last, Gavin Lucas, Michael Shanks ...
    This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, represent many different strands of archaeology. They address the philosophical issues involved in interpretation and a desire among archaeologists to come to terms with their own subjective approaches to the material they study, a recognition of how ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past

    by Victor Buchli, Gavin Lucas ...
    Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past turns what is usually seen as a method for investigating the distant past onto the present. In doing so, it reveals fresh ways of looking both at ourselves and modern society as well as the discipline of archaeology.This volume represents the most recent research in this area and examines a variety of contexts including:* Art Deco* landfills* miner strikes* ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD