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Introduction (Elizabeth DeMarrais) Part I: Rethinking Materiality The Materialization of Culture (Elizabeth DeMarrais) Towards a Theory of Material Engagement (Colin Renfrew) Aesthetics, Intelligence and Emotions: Implications for Archaeology (Chris Gosden) Part II Materiality, Mind and History The Affordances of Things: a Post-Gibsonian Perspective on the Relationality of Mind and Matter (Carl Knappett) The Cognitive Basis of Material Engagement: Where Brain, Body and Culture Conflate (Lambros Malafouris) Mind over Matter? Collapsing the Mind-Matter Dichotomy in Material Culture Studies (Nicole Boivin) An Ongoing Outcome, a Surrounding World: Materiality, Agency and History (Manuel A. Arroyo-Kalin) Part III Transition: Materiality of Sedentism and Domestication Materiliaty and Symbolic Force: a Palaeolithic View of Sedentism ( Clive Gamble) Architecture and 'Theatres of Memory' in the Neolithic of Southwest Asia (Trevor Watkins) Domestication, Sedentism, Property and Time: Materiality and the Beginnings of Agriculture in Northern Europe (Richard Bradley) Tangible Materiality and Cosmological Others in the Development of Sedentism (Mary W Helms) Part IV Materiality and Culture: Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe The Extended Artefact and the Monumental Economy: a Methodology for Material Agency (John Robb) Displaying the Stones: the Materiality of 'Megalithic' Monuments (Chris Scarre) Culture Matters: Why Symbolic Objects Change (Timothy Earle) Matter and Memory: Colour, Remembrance and the Neolithic/Bronze Age Transition (Andy Jones) Institutions and Material Culture in Bronze Age Europe: Towards an Intercontextual Archaeology (Kristian Kristiansen) Part V Materiality, Power and the Sacred The Materiality of Sacred Power (Michael Rowlands) The Birth of Mesoamerican Metaphysics: Sedentism, Engagement, and Moral Superiority (John E Clark) Materiality, Feasts, and Figured Worlds in Aztec Mexico (Elizabeth M Brumfiel) Materials and Metaphors of Sovereignty in Central Madagascar (Susan Kus & Victor Raharijaona) Divine Things (Lynn Meskell) Violence into Order: Materiality and Sacred Power in Ancient Iraq (David Wengrow) Part VI Conclusion Thoughts about Rethinking Materiality (George L Cowgill).