About the Book: Archaeological Theory in a Nutshell
This book provides a brief, readable introduction to archaeological theory.
Adrian Praetzellis demystifies a pile of tricky contemporary concepts for the
theory-phobic undergraduate or beginning graduate student. This new edition adds
chapters on Indigenous, cognitive, and behavioral archaeologies and now covers
15 contemporary theories from neoevolutionism to queer theory. Each chapter
begins with a description of the concept, its origin and significance. Next up
is an example of how an archaeologist has used the idea to understand their
site, making the connection between the idea and the archaeology plain and
unambiguous. Each chapter ends with discussion