Chapter 1: Introduction Jason R. Kennedy Chapter 2: Whose House? An Abridged Exploration in Household Archaeology Jason R. Kennedy Chapter 3: Household Activities at Ubaid Kenan Tepe: Revisiting the Burnt House Marie Hopwood and Jason R. Kennedy Chapter 4: Living with the Dead: Burial Practice at Kenan Tepe, Turkey, During the Ubaid Period David E. Hopwood Chapter 5: Living Amidst the Ruins: Continuities, Interruptions, and Memory in a 5th mill. BCE Village in the Kopet Dag Foothills Susan Pollock and Ilia Heit Chapter 6: Lithics in the Household: Obsidian Use at Kenan Tepe Stuart Campbell and Elizabeth Healey Chapter 7: Bureaucrats and Binaries: Household Archaeologies of Indigenous Andean Leadership Scotti M. Norman and Kylie E. Quave Chapter 8: Into the Borderlands Patrick Mullins Chapter 9: The Land that Time Forgot: Five Millennia of Settlement at Çad?r Hoyuk on the Anatolian Plateau Sharon R. Steadman, Jennifer C. Ross and Marica Cassis Chapter 10: Out of the Shadow of the Texts: Reinvigorating Archaeology’s Role in Ancient Nubia and Modern Egyptology Through a Borderlands Perspective Stuart Tyson Smith Chapter 11: Dynamic Frontier Processes: Examples from Jordan and Peru Aaron Gidding and Alicia Boswell Chapter 12: Borderlands of the Moche Valley: The Chimú Phase (~900 – 1450s CE) Chaupiyunga and the Rise of Chimor Patrick Mullins Chapter 13: Migration, Settlement, and Warfare in the Prehispanic Nasca Highlands of Peru Weston C. McCool Chapter 14: Imperial Dynamics Matthew J. Edwards Chapter 15: Beating Swords into Plowshares: The Role of Agricultural Colonization in Imperial Histories Melissa S. Rosenzweig Chapter 16: After Deportation Azer Keskin and Reinhard Bernbeck Chapter 17: Imperial Bodies: Sex and Bodily Hygiene in the Early Assyrian Empire Bleda Düring Chapter 18: The Role of Institutions in Imperial Formations in the Andes Patrick Ryan Williams Chapter 19: Inca Aesthetic and Ideological Signals in the Imperial Heartland (Cuzco, Peru) R. Alan Covey Chapter 20: Putting the Horse Before the Cart: Timelines and Cadences in Archaeological Data Publishing Sarah Witcher Kansa and Eric C. Kansa