Books on the Study of Archaeology
Top Picks: Cross Cultural Books
Many of the most interesting books published in archaeology today look at a broad sweep of ideas, how cultures change, how environment affects us, how different styles of the same thing are expressed across the world. Here are a handful of the most recent.
Top Picks: Books on Rock Art
A handful of books on this fascinating subject have been published in the last few years and found their way to my desk.
Sexual Revolutions
A new review of Jane Peterson's book on how gender roles changed when humans developed agriculture, and how we might trace those changes in human skeletal material.
Top Picks: Theoretical Studies
There isn't a really good way to rank these kinds of books; each of the books listed below are all different and do what theoretical texts ought to do---tickle the brain in new ways.
Top Picks: Cultural Resource Management Books
Most of the archaeological investigations completed in the world today--especially the west but increasingly in other countries as well--are done in conjunction with devleopment projects, such as road and dam construction. This is list is a few of the growing number of books on how to conduct CRM and the ethical responsibilities of archaeologists who practice it.