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April 2023
The Sound of Silence
Indigenous Perspectives on the Historical Archaeology of Colonialism
Äikäs, T. & Salmi, A.-K. (eds)

March 2023
Going Forward by Looking Back
Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse
Riede, F. & Sheets, P. (eds)

January 2023
Polarized Pasts
Heritage and Belonging in Times of Political Polarization
Niklasson, E. (ed)

February 2023
The Long Shore
Archaeologies and Social Histories of Californias Maritime Cultural Landscapes
Meniketti, M. (ed)

March 2023
Modeling the Past
Archaeology, History, and Dynamic Networks
Terrell, J., Golitko, M., Dawson, H., and Kissel, M.

March 2023
Amnesia Remembered
Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact
Aycock, J.

April 2023
Advocacy and Archaeology
Urban Intersections
Britt, K. M. & George, D. F. (eds)
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ISSN Print: 2049-6729
ISSN Online: 2049-6737
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TERRORISM AND THE PANDEMIC: WEAPONIZING OF COVID-19 (Open Access)
By Rohan Gunaratna and Katalin Pethő-Kiss The global pandemic has offered extraordinary opportunities for extremists and terrorists to mobilize themselves and revive as more powerful actors in the security landscape. But could these threat groups actually capitalize on the coronavirus crisis and advance their malevolent agendas? Terrorism and the Pandemic is OPEN ACCESS and can […]
Arran J. Calvert on Life With Durham Cathedral
Arran J. Calvert has published on the topics of space, time, singing and LEGO building. Here he tells us about his new book, Life with Durham Cathedral: A Laboratory of Community, Experience and Building, and how at Durham Cathedral the only constant is change. ‘Are you here for morning prayer or Antiques Roadshow?’ These were the […]
AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Angela Rong Yang Zhang on At Home in a Nursing Home
ANGELA RONG YANG ZHANG received the Australian Government Postgraduate Award and Emerging Researchers in Ageing Conference Bursary in 2015 and is currently Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA) Grant supported researcher at College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Australia. Dr Zhang is also an Adjunct Fellow to School of Social Sciences at […]
Author interview (PART 2): ANNA ODLAND PORTISCH on A MAGPIE’S TALE
In the concluding part of our discussion of her new book A Magpie’s Tale, Anna tells us about the family she stayed with for the best part of a year – with sometimes as many as ten people in their small, two-room house – and how dramatic economic and political changes drastically changed the lives […]
AUTHOR INTERVIEW(part 1): Anna Odland Portisch on A MAGPIE’S TALE
ANNA ODLAND PORTISCH has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Brunel University. In her new book A Magpie’s Tale: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia she recounts her time living with a Kazakh family in a small village. It’s fascinating (“Can you imagine a stranger showing up on […]
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In recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we would like to present a list of new and recent Holocaust and Genocide Studies titles, as well as free access to related journal articles. “A meticulous and shattering investigation of eight horrific pictures…”—L’Arche ON THE DEATH OF JEWSPhotographs and HistoryNadine FrescoTranslated from the French by Sarah CliftWith […]
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AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Theodoros Rakopoulos on From Clans to Co-ops.
To mark the the first publication in paperback of his acclaimed From Clans to Co-ops: Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily, Theodoros Rakopoulos kindly agreed to discuss his work, the fieldwork behind it, and how co-ops came to assume a role in the rejection of the mafia. THEODOROS RAKOPOULOS is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the […]
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FIRE ON THE ISLAND: FEAR, HOPE AND A CHRISTIAN REVIVAL IN VANUATU
By TOM BRATRUD Since Fire on the Island was one of our most popular and well-received titles in 2022, we are delighted that its author Tom Bratrud has kindly contributed this exclusive article describing his fieldwork, events on the island, and the aims of his book. Many anthropologists have experiences during fieldwork that challenge not […]
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An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology – A Visual Introduction
Shawn Graham's Introduction to An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology (July 2020) Aptly using sonic and visual digital tools to introduce An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology, Shawn Graham invites us to take part in what he has dubbed a “practical digital ... Continue reading →
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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