Investigating Archaeological Cultures

Chapter 1 Investigating Archaeological Cultures: Material Culture, Variability, and Transmission

Chapter 2 A Tale of Two Countries: Contrasting Archaeological Culture History in British and French Archaeology

Chapter 3 Thoughts in Circles: Kulturkreislehre as a Hidden Paradigm in Past and Present Archaeological Interpretations

Chapter 4 Cultural Innovation from an Americanist Perspective

Chapter 5 Culture in the Lower Palaeolithic: Technological Variability in Middle Pleistocene Europe

Chapter 6 Techno-Modes, Techno-Facies and Palaeo-Cultures: Change and Continuity in the Pleistocene of Southeast, Central and North Asia

Chapter 7 Ancient Technology and Archaeological Cultures: Understanding the Earliest Metallurgy in Eurasia

Chapter 8 “Culture”, Innovation and Interaction Across Southern Iran from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age (c. 6500–3000 bc)

Chapter 9 Culture, Tradition and the Settlement Burials of the Linearbandkeramik (LBK) Culture

Chapter 10 Constructing Social and Cultural Identities in the Bronze Age

Chapter 11 Fine if I Do, Fine if I Don’t. Dynamics of Technical Knowledge in Sub-Saharan Africa

Chapter 12 The Transmission of Technological Skills in the Palaeolithic: Insights from Metapopulation Ecology

Chapter 14 Archaeology and Cartography: In Search of the Prehistoric Cultures in the Neolithic Near East

Chapter 15 To Tame a Land: Archaeological Cultures and the Spread of the Neolithic in Western Europe

Chapter 16 Are ‘Cultures’ Inherited? Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Origins and Migrations of Austronesian-Speaking Peoples Prior to 1000 bc

Chapter 17 What Role for Language Prehistory in Redefining Archaeological “Culture”? A Case Study on New Horizons in the Andes