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An Archaeology of Materials sets out a new approach to the study of raw materials. Traditional understandings of materials in archaeology (and in western thought more widely) have failed to acknowledge both the complexity and; moreover; the benefits of an analysis of materials. Here Conneller argues that materials cannot be understood independently of the practices through which they are constituted. Drawing on a number of different thinkers; and using case studies from the European early Prehistoric period; she investigates how we can rethink the properties of matter and the relationship of material and form.What emerges from this book is the variability and the specificity of human-material interactions and the rather more active role that matter plays in these than traditionally conceived. Rather than being insignificant; a formless substrate or simply a constraint to human action; it is argued that materials are more fundamental. Tracing the processes by which the properties of past materials emerge reveals the working of past worlds; particularly articulations of the cultural; the natural and the supernatural. This book will establish a new perspective on the meaning and significance of materials; particularly those involved in mundane; daily usage; and will be a timely addition to the literature on technologies and materials.