Origins: How new archaeological thinking is changing the way we understand history
I have been working on this one for several years - I argue that all the old stories of prehistory that we have inherited from the nineteenth century should be rewritten in the light of new discoveries and new thinking. I propose a new account ...

Archaeologists with attitude: Michael Shanks and Bill Rathje in conversation with Lewis Binford, Victor Buchli, Meg Conkey, Ian Hodder, Kristian Kristiansen, Mark Leone, Randall McGuire, Lynn Meskell, Mary and Adrian Praetzellis, Colin Renfrew, Michael Schiffer, Patty Jo Watson.
In preparation.
Just where is archaeology going? You have to read Mark Leone on public archaeology: Randy McGuire spars with Victor Buchli over Marxism; Patty Jo Watson tells us why cave archaeology is the bee's knees ... .

Three landscapes: a report on a year of experimental research at Stanford 2000/2001
with Clifford McLucas and Dorian Llywelyn
forthcoming
A graphic work of radical experiment in representing place, worked digitally. The Three Landscapes Project continues at Stanford.
>> The Three Landscapes Project

Postprocessual archaeology and after
in C. Chippindale and H. Maschner (eds) Handbook of Archaeological Methods and Theories
Walnut Creek, Altamira Press
in press
A text book chapter.
>> pdf

2004
Modernism/Modernity
A special issue of the journal on archaeology and modernity. A contribution to new approaches to the history of archaeology, less centered upon the works of great archaeologists and their publication.
Editorial - with Jeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Tiews. >>pdf
The perfume of garbage - modernity and the archaeological >>pdf

Three rooms - archaeology and performance
Journal of Social Archaeology 4:147-180 (2004)
Heretical empirics, site specificity, hybridity. The performed body and event/architectures. An anti-epistemological project.
See >> Three rooms - Traumwerk.
>>pdf

Archaeology/Politics
in J. Bintliff (ed) Blackwell Companion to Archaeology
Oxford, Blackwell, 2004
>> pdf

2001
Theatre/Archaeology
with Mike Pearson
Routledge, 2001
‘The (re)articulation of fragments and traces of the past as real time event.’ The body of the performer. Place/event. Deep mapping. Fields not objects – multiplicity and temporal indeterminacy. What has happened? – the character of the document.
“Fascinating and ground-breaking.” Elin Diamond, Rutgers
“Well yes I have read it, but it’s impossible - I just don’t know how to quote this book” Anonymous anthropologist at the Society for American Archaeology meetings, Denver CO, 2002.
>> some notes and an extract

Culture/Archaeology: the dispersion of a discipline and its objects
in I. Hodder (ed) Archaeological Theory Today: Breaking the Boundaries
Cambridge, Polity Press, 2001
What the title describes.
>> pdf

1999
Art and the Greek City State: An Interpretive Archaeology
Cambridge University Press, 1999
A comprehensive study of a class of pottery, a challenge to art history, a methodological experiment in how to write archaeological history.Most comprehensive statement Ihave produced concerning multiplicity and relational method.
“There is nothing original in this work.”
“Full of fascinating flashes of insight.”
“Mobilizes a vast savoire-faire.”
Anonymous readers for Cambridge University Press.
>> some notes
>> more notes

1998
The life of an artifact
Fennoscandia Archeologica 15:15–42 (1998)
A different view of the implications of the biography of things. Dates from a lecture series in Leiden in 1990. Was written for World Archaeology who rejected it because the issue was too long and it didn't read like any of the other papers on time and archaeology (though it actually deals with the continuity of archaeological materials - a favorite theme now of the likes of Richard Bradley - ok Richard - you were the editor who dropped this one :-)

1997
Relativism, objectivity and the politics of the past
with the Lampeter Archaeology Workshop
Archaeological Dialogues 4: 164–184 (1997)
One of my favorites – a joint effort with Lampeter colleagues that cut through to the essential points in the relativism issue.

L’archéologie et le passé contemporain: un paradigme
in A. Schnapp (ed), Une Archéologie du Passé Récent?
Paris, Fondation Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, 1997
After a talk given in a seminar series in Paris in 1995. Photography and its working taken as a way of thinking about archaeology. Contains my thoughts about archaeology as dealing with the contemporary past (in response to Laurent Olivier). Connections here with the work of Michel Serres.

Photography and the archaeological image
in B. Molyneaux (ed), The Cultural Life of Images: Visual Representation in Archaeology
London, Routledge, 1997
A matter of media and a call for more experiment.

1996
Classical Archaeology: Experiences of the Discipline
Routledge,1996
An analysis of the discourse/discipline and an argument that the future of classical archaeology lies in a critique of the western classical tradition.
“A necessary book ... a classic ... a real step forward ...an essential book.” Antiquity.

Performing a visit: archaeologies of the contemporary past
with Mike Pearson
Performance Research 2: 42-60 (1996)
A parallel text about a farm in west Wales. A textual version of a performed lecture.

The craft of archaeology
with Randall McGuire
American Antiquity 61: 75-88 (1996)
Marxian theoretical practice, arts and crafts, labor, and archaeology as cultural production.

1995
Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past
edited with Ian Hodder, Alexandra Alexandri, Victor Buchli, John Carman, Jonathan Last and Gavin Lucas
Routledge, 1995
A review of post processual archaeology and agendas – includes contributions of various kinds from nearly 90 archaeologists who took part in a conference at Peterhouse Cambridge in 1991.

Art and the archaeology of the early Greek city state: a project of embodiment
Cambridge Archaeological Journal 5:1-38 (1995)
Originally a Garrod lecture. As well as outlining some ideas about the scenes found on these Corinthian pots, the paper remarks upon technology and design (heavy influence from latour, Callon, Mackenzie et al). Includes comments from I. Morris (Stanford), L. Olivier (French Ministry of Culture), J.L. Benson (Amherst), R. Osborne (Oxford), A. Schnapp (Paris), F. Lissarague (CNRS), N. Schlanger (Oxford), J. Tanner (London).
Jack Benson just didn't get it, and didn't want to - and I thought I had reached out to his generation (neither did Robin Osborne - too historically blinkered Robin ;-).
For some notes and background see the book above.

Interpretive archaeology: a glossary
in I.Hodder and M.Shanks, Alexandra Alexandri, Victor Buchli, John Carman, Jonathan Last and Gavin Lucas (eds), Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past
London, Routledge, 1995
Buzz words explained (kind of).

Processual, postprocessual and interpretive archaeologies
with Ian Hodder
in I. Hodder, M. Shanks, Alexandra Alexandri, Victor Buchli, John Carman, Jonathan Last and Gavin Lucas (eds), Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past
London, Routledge, 1995
A summary treatment of interpretation and interpretive archaeology (as what postprocessual is really about).

Archaeology and the forms of history
in I. Hodder, M. Shanks, Alexandra Alexandri, Victor Buchli, John Carman, Jonathan Last and Gavin Lucas (eds), Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past
London, Routledge, 1995
A short textual experiment in writing about a pot. James Whitley freaked out at it when I presented it at Peterhouse (the outburst is in the appendix to the book). John Fritz saidthe paper was like a boxer dodging and weaving.

Archaeological realities: embodiment and a critical romanticism
in M. Tusa and T. Kirkinen (eds) The Archaeologist and his/her Reality: Proceedings of the 4th Nordic TAG Conference, 1992
Helsinki, Department of Archaeology, 1995
Relates archaeology to intellectual roots in European romaticism. Explores heritage, postmodernity and consumerism.

1994
A ruined past: experience and reality
with Jos Bazelmans, Peter van Dommelen, Jan Kolen
Archaeological Dialogues 1: 56-76 (1994)
An interview in the wake of Experiencing the Past. Explains what I was trying to do.

Archaeology: theories, themes and experience
with Iain Mackenzie
in I. Mackenzie (ed), Theoretical Archaeology: Progress or Posture?
Aldershot, Avebury, 1994
An interview in the wake of Experiencing the Past. Explains what I was trying to do.

1992
Experiencing the Past: On the Character of Archaeology
Routledge, 1992
An attempt to understand the cultural energies at the heart of the archaeological project. A redefinition of archaeology as the archaeological. An argument for the symmetry of past and present. Archaeology as cultural production – its poetics.
“How archaeology can be written creatively” Helinium
“We refuse to review this book … it deserves to be pulped” Antiquity (or something like that)

Style and the design of an Archaic Korinthian perfume jar
Journal of European Archaeology 1:77-106 (1992)
The beginnings of a rhizomatic method.

1990
Reading the signs
in I.Bapty and T.Yates (eds), Archaeology after Structuralism
London, Routledge, 1990
A response (positive) to the excesses/transgressions of poststructuralism.

1989
Archaeology into the 1990s
with Christopher Tilley
Norwegian Archaeological Review 22.1 (1989)
A programmatic statement in the wake of Social Theory and Archaeology and ReConstructing Archaeology. Makes a case for, among other things, embodied interpretation, archaeology as cultural production, disciplinary politics. Reprinted in the second edition of ReConstructing Archaeology.

1987
Social Theory and Archaeology
Polity Press, 1987, University of New Mexico Press, 1988
Clarifying the concepts at the heart of any archaeological attempt to understand society on the basis of its material remains. Includes a chapter on the politics of such a project and one on temporality.
“It is not the duty of an academic press to publish this political pamphlet” Anonymous reader for Polity Press.
(One horrified reader pointed out that a section in the politics of theory chapter was headed "What is to be done" - the title of a tract by Lenin!)

Re-constructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice
with Christopher Tilley
Cambridge University Press, 1987, Second edition: Routledge, 1992
A critique of the processual archaeological project as it stood at the beginning of the 80s (and still stands as an orthodoxy in American archaeology). Chapters on time and history, science and value freedom, hermeneutics, social theory, museology, and case studies in neolithic monuments and contemporary beer can design
“They have written the end of innocence” Mark Leone, University of Maryland.
“Issues in a new generation of archaeology.” Ian Hodder, Cambridge University.
“I can’t understand a word these two guys say” Reviewer, Amazon.com.

“Many of the views presented in these two books will come to dominate much of archaeological debate during the coming years.” Norwegian Archaeological Review

1982
Ideology, symbolic power and ritual communication: a reinterpretation of Neolithic mortuary practices
with Christopher Tilley
in I.Hodder (ed), Symbolic and Structural Archaeology
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982
OK - I can come clean now - I misquoted Lukács.