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July 2023
The Spirit of Matter
Modernity, Religion, and the Power of Objects
Pels, P.

July 2023
Innovation and Implementation
Critical Reflections on New Approaches to Historic Mortuary Data Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination
Mytum, H. & Veit, R. (eds)

September 2023
These Were People Once
The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters
Huffer, D. & Graham, S.

October 2023
Poverty Archaeology
Architecture, Material Culture and the Workhouse under the New Poor Law
Newman, C. & Fennelly, K.
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Museum Worlds
Advances in Research
ISSN Print: 2049-6729
ISSN Online: 2049-6737
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Series: International Monographs in Prehistory
Archaeological Series

Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece
Edited by Apostolos Sarris, Evita Kalogiropoulou, Tuna Kalayci, and Evagelia Karimali

Natufian Foragers in the Levant
Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia
Ofer Bar-Yosef and François R. Valla

The Benefit of the Gift
Social Organization and Expanding Networks of Interaction in the Western Great Lakes Archaic
Mark Andrew Hill

Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast
Edited by Elizabeth A. Sobel, D. Ann Trieu Gahr, and Kenneth A. Ames

The Archaeology of Tribal Societies
Edited by William A. Parkinson

Subsistence-Settlement Systems and Intersite Variability in the Moroiso Phase of the Early Jomon Period of Japan
Junko Habu

In the Mind's Eye
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Evolution of Human Cognition
Edited by April Nowell

Folsom Lithic Technology
Explorations in Structure and Variation
Edited by Daniel S. Amick

The Iron Gates Mesolithic
Ivana Radovanovic

Stone Tools and Mobility in the Illinois Valley
From Hunter-Gatherer Camps to Agricultural Villages
George H. Odell

Emergent Complexity
The Evolution of Intermediate Societies
Jeanne E. Arnold

The Origins of Complex Societies in Late Prehistoric Iberia
Katina T. Lillios

Settlement, Economy, and Cultural Change at the End of the European Iron Age
Excavations at Kelheim in Bavaria, 1987-1992
Peter S. Wells

Villages in the Steppe
Late Neolithic Settlement and Subsistence in the Balikh Valley, Northern Syria
Peter M. Akkermans

Human Adaptation at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona
Social and Ecological Perspectives
Joseph A. Ezzo

Islands in the Interior
The Dynamics of Prehistoric Adaptations Within the Arid Zone of Australia
Peter Marius Veth

The Dutch Hunebedden
Megalithic Tombs of the Funnel Beaker Culture
Jan Albert Bakker
Ethnoarchaeology Series

Discerning Palates of the Past
An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Crop Cultivation and Plant Usage in India
Seetha Narahari Reddy

Ethnoarchaeology of Andean South America
Contributions to Archaeological Method and Theory
Edited by Lawrence A. Kuznar

Mobile Farmers
An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Settlement Organization Among the Raramuri of Northwestern Mexico
Martha Graham

Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics
Case Studies from Food-Producing Societies
Edited by Augustin Holl and Thomas Evan Levy
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