Archaeology

Technologies of Agency and Repression

Edited by Tony Roberts, University of Sussex, UK & Tanja Bosch, University of Cape Town, South Africa This volume brings to life this dramatic struggle for the digital realm between citizens and governments in Africa; documenting in vivid detail how citizens are using mobile and internet tools in powerful viral global campaigns to hold governments accountable and force policy change.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 240 pages PB 9781350324459 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350324466 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350324473 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9781350324480 • £19.79 / $27.47 Zed Books Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco

Cristiana Strava, Leiden University, Netherlands Using rich ethnographic detail, Precarious Modernities offers an immersive account of the multiple scales and entangled actors involved in the objectification and instrumentalization of Casablanca’s margins as part of ongoing and contingent processes of ‘modernization’.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 216 pages PB 9781350232587 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350232549 ePub 9781350232556 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350232563 • £76.50 / $105.78 Zed Books

New Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology

Landscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming

An Archaeology of Preunderstanding

Bruno David, Monash University, Australia In this seminal text in rock-art research, now reissued with a new preface, Bruno David explores the historical antiquity of the Dreaming of Aboriginal Australia, examining the archaeological evidence for Dreaming-mediated places, rituals and symbolism. What emerges is not a static culture, but a form of pre-understanding - a condition of knowledge that shapes one's experience of the world - that emerged in its recognizable form only about 1,000 years ago. By tracing this archaeological visibility through time, the author argues that it is possible to scientifically explore an archaeology of preunderstanding; of body and mind, identity and Being-in-the-world.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 264 pages • 76 bw illus PB 9781350345003 • £29.99 / $40.95 Previously published in HB 9780718502430 Series: New Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology • Bloomsbury Academic

Neanderthals in the Levant

Behavioural Organization and the Beginnings of Human Modernity

Edited by Donald O. Henry, University of Tulsa, USA

This significant contribution to scholarship on the Middle Paleolithic is now reissued in paperback with a new preface, bringing it to a wider audience. The focus is on understanding the degree to which the behavioral organization of Archaic (Neanderthal) groups differed from Moderns, drawing on a case study for a 44-70,000-year-old occupation of a Jordanian rockshelter. Analysis of the material evidence reveals how the Archaic occupants structured their activities, and challenges prevailing views that these groups had inferior cognition and less complex behavioral-social organization than their modern counterparts.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 344 pages • 120 bw illus PB 9781350343993 • £29.99 / $40.95 Previously published in HB 9780826458032 Series: New Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology • Bloomsbury Academic

Early Urbanizations in the Levant

A Regional Narrative

Raphael Greenberg, Tel Aviv University, Israel This critical examination of the first cycle of urbanization, collapse and reurbanization in the 4th-2nd millennium BCE Levant is now reissued with a new preface reflecting on developments in research since its first publication. Detailed analysis of settlement fluctuations and material culture development in the Hula Valley, at the crossroads between modern Israel, Syria and Lebanon, underpins novel scenarios for explaining changes in the regional archaeological record, with implications for reconstructions of social evolution in the larger region. The volume will be of interest to anyone studying the archaeology of early state formation in the Near East.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 160 pages • 47 bw illus PB 9781350345256 • £29.99 / $40.95 Previously published in HB 9780718502300 Series: New Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology • Bloomsbury Academic