1- Late Bronze Age and Iron Age archaeology in western Europe. The longue durée and the événementiel. Political economy (violence and banquets). Body politics. Domestic space: house societies. Meeting Others: trade, imperialism. Egalitarian ethoi and resistance (societies against the state). Heterarchy. Ethnicity, identity and material culture. Technology and social agency. Iron age cities as a technology of power. Inalienable objects and Bronze Age economies. No Celts, please, unless strictly necessary.

2- (Ethno)archaeology. Should it be necessarily functionalist? Can we do it post-colonial? Material culture studies in non-industrial communities. Domestic space. Peasant communities in Spain. Nilo-Saharan swidden cultivators in Ethiopia. Tupi-Guarani hunter-gatherers of the Amazonian forest. Food for the archaeological imagination (pace Nicholas David and Carol Kramer). Symmetrical (ethno)archaeology.

3- The archaeology of the recent past. An archaeology of the vanishing present. The failures of modernity (war, politics of development, emigration, revolutions). An archaeology of globalization (with Bill Rathje). The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Trauma and memory. Archaeology and modernity. Deep maps.

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