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Change and Archaeology
Change and Archaeology explores how archaeologists have historically described, interpreted, and explained change, and argues that change has been under-theorised.
The study of change is central to the discipline of archaeology, but change is complex, and this makes it challenging to write about in nuanced ways that effectively capture the nature of our world. Relational approaches offer archaeologists more scope to explore change in complex and subtle ways. Change and Archaeology presents a posthumanist, post-anthropocentric, new materialist approach to change. It argues that our world is constantly in the process of becoming and always on the move. By recasting change as the norm rather than the exception and distributing it between both humans and non-humans, this book offers a new theoretical framework for exploring change in the past that allows us to move beyond block-time approaches where change is located only in transitional moments and periods are characterised by blocks of stasis.
Archaeologists, scholars, anthropologists and historians interested in the theoretical frameworks we use to interpret the past will find this book a fascinating new insight into the way our world changes and evolves. The approaches presented within will be of use to anyone studying and writing about the way societies and their environs move through time.
The study of change is central to the discipline of archaeology, but change is complex, and this makes it challenging to write about in nuanced ways that effectively capture the nature of our world. Relational approaches offer archaeologists more scope to explore change in complex and subtle ways. Change and Archaeology presents a posthumanist, post-anthropocentric, new materialist approach to change. It argues that our world is constantly in the process of becoming and always on the move. By recasting change as the norm rather than the exception and distributing it between both humans and non-humans, this book offers a new theoretical framework for exploring change in the past that allows us to move beyond block-time approaches where change is located only in transitional moments and periods are characterised by blocks of stasis.
Archaeologists, scholars, anthropologists and historians interested in the theoretical frameworks we use to interpret the past will find this book a fascinating new insight into the way our world changes and evolves. The approaches presented within will be of use to anyone studying and writing about the way societies and their environs move through time.
- GenresHistoryArchaeology
266 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 22, 2020
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December 17, 2025
Revolutionary
November 23, 2025
Really excellent overview to how change is under theorised in archaeology. Did not love her recommendation, but I’m an Anthropocentrist
January 7, 2022
Exceptional work. Stimulating read
This book provide an original view of change and humans. It moves beyond simple time block/phases and provide a powerful model to understand change. This is convincingly applied to early copper and bronze metallurgy, it has much wider implications and , in my opinion, applies to modern society. Highly recommended
This book provide an original view of change and humans. It moves beyond simple time block/phases and provide a powerful model to understand change. This is convincingly applied to early copper and bronze metallurgy, it has much wider implications and , in my opinion, applies to modern society. Highly recommended
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews