Louise Steel is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at UWTSD, and has worked extensively in Cyprus. She is Associate Director of UNESCO-BRIDGES@UWTSD, and series editor of Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology (UWP).Dr Luci Attala is Associate Professor in Anthropology at UWTSD, and Deputy Executive Director of UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition and Director of the UNESCO-BRIDGES UK Hub. She is also one of the Directors of Educere Alliance at the University of Oxford, a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, and a Board Member of the Tairona Heritage Trust.

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsList of contributorsPrefaceChapter 1: Introduction: The quivering potential of earthy matterLouise Steel and Luci AttalaChapter 2: In the red: Earthy humans and the generative qualities of ochreLouise SteelChapter 3: Hard core, soft touches: A story of affect between caves, rocks and humansSimone SambentoChapter 4: Plastered: People-plaster relationships in the Neolithic Near EastJoanne Clarke and Alex WasseChapter 5: A melding of models: A New Materialisms approach to the earthy constituents in the ‘Ceremonial’ Hoard from Kissonerga MosphiliaNatalie BoydChapter 6: ‘Corbusian piggeries’ and ‘toytown cottages’: The social lives of concrete and brick in twentieth-century LiverpoolAlex ScottChapter 7: Plastic earth: Somatic correspondences with legacy contaminants in archaeology and anthropologyEloise GovierChapter 8: Biomorphic ceramicsBejamin AlbertiChapter 9: Bodies and soils, re-placing not rewilding: The art of making compost and becoming places. Luci AttalaIndex