Antioch on the Orontes

Andrea U. De Giorgi

Antioch on the Orontes was one of the most important cities of the ancient Mediterranean world.  A hinge between the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and the Far East, its commercial and cultural prominence spanned centuries, from its Seleucid foundation to the Islamic...

Minoan Zoomorphic Culture

Emily S. K. Anderson

Since the earliest era of archaeological discovery on Crete, vivid renderings of animals have been celebrated as defining elements of Minoan culture. Animals were crafted in a rich range of substances and media in the broad Minoan world, from tiny seal-stones to...

Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World

Stefanos Gimatzidis

Greek pottery is the most visible archaeological evidence of social and economic relations between the Aegean and the Mediterranean during the Iron Age, a period of intense mobility. This book presents a holistic study of the earliestGreek pottery exchanged in Greek,...

Cultural Burning

Collectif

This Element addresses a burning question – how can archaeologists best identify and interpret cultural burning, the controlled use of fire by people to shape and curate their physical and social landscapes?This Element describes what cultural burning is and presents...

Disease, Health and Ape Conservation: Volume 5

Arcus Foundation

This fifth volume of State of the Apes brings together original research and analysis with topical case studies and emerging best practice to further the ape conservation agenda around disease and health. It provides an overview of relevant disease and health issues and...

Ancient South America

Karen Olsen Bruhns

Ancient South America, 2nd edition features the full panorama of the South American past from the first inhabitants to the European invasions  Isolated for all of prehistory and much of history, the continent witnessed the rise of cultures and advanced civilizations...

Here and Now at Historic Sites

David Ludvigsson , Martin Stolare , Cecilia Trenter

The study explores the meaning-making of cultural heritage in school field trips to five sites in the region Östergötland in Sweden. It treats the materiality of the place and experiences of the guides and the pupils, obtained in school as well as in other contexts, as...

Aggrieved Labor Strikes Back

Saliha Metinsoy

Why do we see large-scale labor protests and strikes under some IMF programs such as in Greece in 2010 and not in others such as in Ireland in the same year? This Element argues that extensive labor market reform conditions in an immobile labor market generate strong...

From Ritual to God in the Ancient Near East

Nicola Laneri

Human belief systems and practices can be traced to ca. 10,000 BCE in the Ancient Near East, where the earliest evidence of ritual structures and objects can be found. Religious architecture, the relics of human skeletons, animal symbolism, statues, and icons all...

The Problem of Private Health Insurance

Susan F. Murray

Financial markets, actors, institutions and technologies are increasingly determining which kinds of services and 'welfare' are available, how these are narrated, and what comes to represent the 'common sense' in the policy world and in everyday life. This Element...

The Anarchist Turn in Twenty-First Century Leftwing Activism

Daniel P. Burridge , Benjamin S. Case , Hillary Lazar , John Markoff

Leftwing activism of recent decades exhibits an anarchist turn evident in quantitative indicators like mentions of anarchists in news reports and by activists adopting anarchist modes of organization, tactics, and social goals-whether or not they claim that label. The...

Sixty Years of Visible Protest in the Disability Struggle for Equality, Justice, and Inclusion

David Pettinicchio

Visible protests reflect both continuity and change. This Element illustrates how protest around longstanding issues and grievances is punctuated by movement dynamics as well as broader cultural and institutional environments. The disability movement is an example of...

Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics

Margaret S. Archer

In this final book by renowned sociologist Margaret S. Archer, her groundbreaking morphogenetic approach is defended, refined and extended through a series of engagements with her critics. Archer, a pioneer of critical realism, addresses key debates surrounding her work...

Have Repertoire, Will Travel

Selina R. Gallo-Cruz

Nonviolence is celebrated and practiced around the world, as a universal 'method for all human conflict.' This Element describes how nonviolence has evolved into a global repertoire, a patterned form of contentious political performance that has spread as an...

Deliberative Democracy for Diabolical Times

André Bächtiger , John S. Dryzek

Democracy today faces deep and complex challenges, especially when it comes to political communication and the quality of public discourse. Dishonest and manipulative communication amplified by unscrupulous politicians and media pervades these diabolical times, enabling...

Archaeology of the Roman Conquest

Manuel Fernández-Götz , Nico Roymans

This Element volume provides an up-to-date synthesis of the archaeology of the Roman conquest, combining new theoretical and methodological approaches with the latest fieldwork results. Recent advances in conflict archaeology research are revolutionising our knowledge...

Mobile Landscapes and Their Enduring Places

Jessie Birkett-Rees , Bruno David , Jean-Jacques Delannoy

This Element presents emerging concepts and analytical tools in landscape archaeology. In three major sections bookended by an Introduction and Conclusion, the Element discusses current and emerging ideas and methods by which to explore how people in the past engaged...

First Cities

Dean Saitta

This Element describes and synthesizes archaeological knowledge of humankind's first cities for the purpose of strengthening a comparative understanding of urbanism across space and time. Case studies are drawn from ancient Mesopotamia, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the...

Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements

Sidney Tarrow , Whitney K. Taylor

Legal and social movement scholars have long puzzled over the role of movements in moving, being moved by, and changing the meanings of the law. But for decades, these two strands of scholarship only dovetailed at their edges, in the work of a few far-seeing scholars....

Third Millennium Thinking

John Campbell , Robert Maccoun , Saul Perlmutter