1. An introduction to contemporary archaeological theory: confronting dualisms
2. Beyond paradigms: a potted history of archaeological thought
3. Between thoughts and things: theorising practice and agency
4. Situating things in society: identity and personhood
5. Secret lives of things: object agency and biography
6. Things make people? Considering materiality, phenomenology, experience and entanglement
7. Mediating the world: archaeological semiotics
8. Finding symmetry: Actor-Network-Theory and new materialism
9. Multi-species archaeology: people, plants and animals
10. ‘Others’: postcolonialism, the ontological turn and colonised things
11. On breaking walls and building relations: a conclusion