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The book presents a new conceptual framework and a set of research principles with which to study and interpret technology from a phenomenological perspective.

Agency in Archaeology is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognise that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyond looking at broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider the individual and the group
Agency in Archaeology brings together nineteen internationally renowned scholars who have very different, and often conflicting, stances on the meaning and use of...

This work presents a conceptual framework and a set of research principles with which to study and interpret technology from a phenomenological perspective. The author is explicitly concerned with studying ancient technological practices but the general concept of technology forms the centerpiece of discussion and is defined as an explicitly social, symbolic, and embodied endeavor that simultaneously brings into being both human agents and their material world. The author argues that, for ancient technologies and products to be fully understood, we need to appreciate the historically...

Nineteen internationally renowned scholars discuss theoretically based case studies ranging in subject from the late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to the restructuring of gender relations in the US.