ABSTRACT
The concepts of 'agency' and 'identity' have been incorporated into archaeological theory, and sometimes practice, since the 1980s and 1990s, as part of a realignment of the archaeological endeavor under post-processualism. Russell and Bogaard address the key decision points at which household residents at Catalhoyiik deliberated regarding the acquisition and final deposition of plant and animal food within the household structure. In a similar fashion Branting examines the decisions a pedestrian must make at various points while traversing an Iron Age city. Jones, McMahon, and Matney offer studies at the regional scale. Jones examines how human movement across the Early Bronze Age Levantine countryside creates a symbolically and materially encultured landscape; in some cases actors intentionally created visible landscape features and in others the creation of a mental map of the region developed organically.
