Historical Archaeology resources
- Organising your ideas
- Journals & books
- Portals for archaeologists
- So what is this post-processualism anyway?
- Critiques of post-processualism
- Other approaches
- Luminaries of historical archaeology
- History OF archaeology
- A little light relief
- General archaeology links
Organising your ideas
- Mind Mapping (Tony Buxan's website)
- FreeMind: free open-source mindmapping software
- Mind mapping pages at James Cook Uni
Journals & books
- assemblage - the Sheffield graduate journal of archaeology (has articles free online as HTML files)
- Society for Historical Archaeology
- Australian Historical Archaeology
- International Journal of Historical Archaeology (has articles free online as PDF files)
- Classic reference works for historical archaeology
- Book reviews of some hist-arch texts
- Material Culture book reviews
- MaterialCulture.com books
- PhD Dissertation of Terisa Green - Spanish Missions and Native Religion: Contact, Conflict, and Convergence
Portals for archaeologists
- Internet Resources for Archaeology (University of Delaware Library)
- Archaeology Resources and Support (University of Bristol Library)
- History, Classics & Archaeology (LTSS)
- The British Academy Portal: Archaeology
- Enrich UK: Historical Archaeology resources
- Humbul Humanities Gateway: Archaeology by period (goes right up to 20th century)
- About.com Historical Archaeology links
- More HistArch links from About.com
- Web index of lots of archaeology journals
- Learning and Teaching Resources for Historical Archaeology
- BUBL links: archaeology
- Glossary of archaeological terms
So what is this post-processualism anyway?
- Post-processualism (Wikipedia) - definition and outline of post-processualism (source: Hodder, 1986, 1991; Preucel, RW, 1995; Trigger, B, 1995)
- Lecture outlines and reading lists for post-processualism (University of York)
- Archaeology and Post-Structuralism Ian Bapty and Tim Yates
Critiques of post-processualism
- Getting behind theory's bad reputation - Simon Denison talks to Mike Shanks - British Archaeology, no 22, March 1997: Interview
- The unbearable lightness of a Heideggerian meditation: Hermeneutic failings and the idle content of would-be avant-garde theorising - David S. Webster (assemblage, issue 6, August 2001)
Other approaches
- Post-structuralism
- Structuralism and semiotics
- Structuralism and Contextualism (University of York)
- Functionalism in its various forms (University of York)
- Example essay titles & topics (University of York)
- Cultural history (University of York)
- Research design (University of York)
- Sawicki's Gender Archaeology
- J L Lemke - traversing discursive spaces
- Inclusionality (theory of space and dynamic boundaries)
- Cultures of belief: science and folklore (PowerPoint) + Folklore studies reading list
Luminaries of historical archaeology
History OF Archaeology
- About archaeology - lists all the major movements within archaeology, techniques used etc.
- Archaeological Formations - Jon Muller (a history of archaeology using anthropological analysis)
A little light relief
- never the now (the blog of an archaeology student)
- Resistentialism (a philosophy of things) by Paul Jennings
- Bungalow Heaven - a housing development based on American Arts & Crafts movement principles