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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- To the Instructor
- To the Student
- part I What Is Archaeology?
- chapter 1 The Science of Archaeology
- What Is Archaeology?
- Archaeology and Anthropology
- Archaeology and the Other Sciences
- The Basic Goals of Archaeology
- The Branches of Archaeology
- Prehistoric Archaeology
- Historical Archaeology
- HIGHLIGHT 1.1 The Archaeology of Enslaved Africans in the New World
- Classical Archaeology
- Maritime Archaeology
- HIGHLIGHT 1.2 The Mary Rose
- Public Archaeology
- HIGHLIGHT 1.3 An Ancient Boat Comes to Life
- Key Concepts in Archaeology
- The Archaeological Record
- Cultural Deposition, Stratigraphy, and Dating
- Archaeological Cultures
- Archaeology as Science
- The Structure of Scientific Knowledge
- The Scientific Method
- Research Design
- Pseudoscience
- Frauds
- Archaeology and Prehistory
- The Importance of Archaeology
- Chapter Summary
- Key Concepts
- Suggested Readings
- chapter 2 Background of Archaeology
- Ancient Archaeology
- Antiquarians
- The Discovery of a Prehistoric Past
- Classical Civilizations
- HIGHLIGHT 2.1 The Buried Cities Below Vesuvius
- The Emergence of Professional Archaeology
- A Historical Approach
- Unilinear Cultural Evolution
- Diffusion as an Early Explanatory Model
- Improving Field Methods
- Developing the Outline of World Prehistory
- Prehistory of the Americas
- HIGHLIGHT 2.2 The Moundbuilders
- Prehistory of Sub-Saharan Africa
- Prehistory of Asia and Oceania
- Political Influences in the History of Archaeology
- Colonialism
- HIGHLIGHT 2.3 Great Zimbabwe
- Nationalism
- General Biases
- Chapter Summary
- Key Concepts
- Suggested Readings
- chapter 3 The Development of Contemporary Archaeology
- Archaeology After World War II
- The Rise of Scientific Archaeology
- Research Design in Archaeology
- Middle-Range Theory
- HIGHLIGHT 3.1 Ethnoarchaeology Among the Aka of Central Africa
- HIGHLIGHT 3.2 Experimental Archaeology: Building Models to Test the Hunting-Scavenging Debate
- Cultural Materialism
- Expanding Theoretical Horizons
- Gender and the Past
- The Archaeology of Power
- Behavioral Archaeology
- Evolutionary Archaeology
- Cognitive Archaeology
- Indigenous Archaeology
- Archaeological Frontiers
- HIGHLIGHT 3.3 Exoarchaeology
- Careers in Archaeology
- Becoming an Archaeologist
- Chapter Summary
- Key Concepts
- Suggested Readings
- part II Obtaining Information About the Past
- chapter 4 The Archaeological Record
- Archaeological Sites
- Types of Sites
- HIGHLIGHT 4.1 Ancient Footprints at Laetoli
- Site Deposits
- HIGHLIGHT 4.2 Tell es-Safi: Goliath’s Hometown
- Archaeological Evidence
- Artifacts
- Ecofacts
- Features
- Architecture
- HIGHLIGHT 4.3 How Were the Egyptian Pyramids Built?
- Human Remains
- Site Formation and Transformation
- Geology and Hydrology
- Taphonomy
- Bioturbation
- Human Agency
- Preservation
- Preservation Conditions
- Preservation and the Environment
- Recognizing and Recovering Evidence
- Ongoing Impacts on the Archaeological Record
- HIGHLIGHT 4.4 The Looting of Angkor Wat
- Chapter Summary
- Key Concepts
- Suggested Readings
- chapter 5 Conducting Fieldwork
- Finding Sites
- Accidental Discoveries
- Project-Related Discoveries
- HIGHLIGHT 5.1 The Discovery of Lascaux
- Conducting Archaeological Surveys
- Background Studies
- Remote Sensing Techniques for Finding Sites
- Sampling
- HIGHLIGHT 5.2 Ubar: The Atlantis of the Sands
- Recording Sites
- Excavating Sites
- Mapping the Site
- Deciding Where to Dig
- Digging
- Recovering and Cataloging Data
- Working With Specialists
- Practical Aspects of Fieldwork
- Funding and Staffing
- Curation
- Occupational Hazards in Archaeology
- Ethics in Archaeological Fieldwork
- HIGHLIGHT 5.3 Scandal! Planting Artifacts in Japan
- Legal Issues
- Humanistic Issues
- Professional Obligations
- Chapter Summary
- Key Concepts
- Suggested Readings
- chapter 6 Classification and Analysis of Artifacts
- Classification and Typology
- Attributes
- Temporal Types
- Assemblage Types
- Classifying Types of Artifacts
- Stone
- Ceramics
- Metal
- Glass
- Shell and Bone
- Perishables
- HIGHLIGHT 6.1 Historical Material Culture: A View from the Chinatown in Riverside, California
- HIGHLIGHT 6.2 The Flutes of Jiahu
- Analyzing Artifacts
- Use-Wear Analysis
- Geochemical Sourcing
- Residue Analysis
- DNA Analysis
- Chapter Summary
- Key Concepts
- Suggested Readings
- chapter 7 Determining Time
- What Is So Important About Time?
- Older or Younger? Relative Dating in Archaeology
- Stratigraphy and Superposition
- Index Fossils and Biostratigraphy
- Temporal Types
- Seriation
- HIGHLIGHT 7.1 Seriation in Ancient Greek Coins
- Fluorine, Uranium, and Nitrogen (FUN) Dating
- Real Time: Chronometric Dating
- Cross-Dating and Dendrochronology
- Radiometric Techniques
- HIGHLIGHT 7.2 Dating the Shroud of Turin
- Archaeomagnetism
- Obsidian Dating
- Chapter Summary
- Key Concepts
- Suggested Readings
- chapter 8 Bioarchaeology: Human Remains
- What is Bioarchaeology?
- Ethics and Politics
- Initial Treatment of the Body
- Purposeful Mummification
- HIGHLIGHT 8.1 The Roman Mummies of Tell El-Hibeh
- Final Treatment of the Body
- Inhumation
- HIGHLIGHT 8.2 The Ice Princess
- Cremation
- Specially Treated Remains
- Body Management
- Mortuary Facilities and Grave Goods
- Skeletal Remains
- HIGHLIGHT 8.3 KV-5: The Mega Tomb for Rameses the Great’s Children
- The Human Skeleton
- Determining Sex
- Determining Age
- Determining Stature
- Population Affinity
- Soft-Tissue Evidence
- Determining Health and Nutrition
- Pathology and Trauma
- Chemical Analyses
- Stable Isotope Analysis
- HIGHLIGHT 8.4 Ancient Cannibals!
- Trace Element Analysis
- Analysis of Ancient DNA
- What People Looked Like: Soft-Tissue Reconstruction From Skeletal Data
- Constructing an Osteobiography
- Tracking Skeletal Variability in Early Human Ancestors
- Contemporary Forensics
- Chapter Summary
- Key Concepts
- Suggested Readings
- part III Interpreting the Past
- chapter 9 Environment and Adaptation
- The Environment
- HIGHLIGHT 9.1 Easter Island’s Ecological Disaster
- Environmental Archaeology
- Reconstructing Past Landforms
- Reconstructing Past Plants and Animals
- Reconstructing Past Climate
- Human Biological Adaptation
- Evolutionary Ecology
- Optimization Models
- Human Cultural Adaptation
- HIGHLIGHT 9.2 Island Geography and Subsistence Practices in Polynesia
- Controlling the Environment
- Domestication and the Agricultural Revolution
- HIGHLIGHT 9.3 Detecting Animal Domestication
- Chapter Summary
- Key Concepts
- Suggested Readings
- chapter 10 Understanding Past Settlement and Subsistence
- Where Did People Live? Past Settlement Systems
- Settlement Archaeology
- Understanding Site Components
- Analyzing Populations
- Catchment Analysis
- The Interplay Between Settlement and Subsistence
- HIGHLIGHT 10.1 The Impacts of Agriculture and Urbanization on Health and Nutrition
- How Did People Make a Living? Subsistence
- The Four Primary Subsistence Systems
- Archaeological Evidence of Subsistence
- HIGHLIGHT 10.2 Diet and Cuisine at Lake Cahuilla
- Subsistence Technology and Organization
- Recovery and Identification of Ecofactual Evidence
- Quantifying Ecofactual Remains
- Chapter Summary
- Key Concepts
- Suggested Readings
- chapter 11 Interpreting Past Cultural Systems
- How Can Archaeology Answer Anthropological Questions?
- Social Archaeology
- Cognitive Archaeology
- Interpreting Past Social Structures
- Kinship
- Social Stratification
- The Archaeology of Gender
- HIGHLIGHT 11.1 Sex and Gender in Central European Burials
- The Archaeology of Ethnicity
- Interpreting Past Political Organization
- Four Types of Political Organization
- Some Theories of the Origin of States
- HIGHLIGHT 11.2 The Terra-Cotta Army
- Interpreting Past Belief Systems
- Religious Organization and Expression
- Cosmology, Philosophy, and Oral Tradition
- HIGHLIGHT 11.3 Archaeoastronomy
- Iconography, Art, and Expression
- HIGHLIGHT 11.4 Art and Archaeology in Africa
- Remembering the Individual
- Chapter Summary
- Key Concepts
- Suggested Readings
- chapter 12 Understanding Culture Change
- The Archaeology of Change
- Systems Theory
- Evolutionary Approaches
- Invention and Diffusion
- Social and Political Movements
- Migrations and Diasporas
- HIGHLIGHT 12.1 Archaeology of Proto-Polynesian
- Interpreting Evidence of Change
- HIGHLIGHT 12.2 The Bantu Migrations and the African Iron Age
- Reconstructing Events
- Reconstructing Patterns and Trends
- Cultural Contact and Conflict
- The Archaeology of Trade
- HIGHLIGHT 12.3 Archaeology of the Silk Road: Ancient Mummies of the Tarim Basin
- The Archaeology of Warfare
- HIGHLIGHT 12.4 Thermopylae, 480 BC
- Chapter Summary
- Key Concepts
- Suggested Readings
- part IV Public Archaeology
- Chapter 13 Cultural Resource Management
- The Impact of Population Growth and Development on the Archaeological Record
- The Field of Cultural Resource Management
- Antiquities Legislation in the United States
- The National Historic Preservation Act
- Compliance Archaeology
- The Archaeological Resources Protection Act
- The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
- Antiquities Legislation Around the World
- Site Preservation and Restoration
- HIGHLIGHT 13.1 Preserving Abu Simbel
- The Role of Public Education in Archaeological Preservation
- Cultural Resource Management Among Traditional Peoples
- Archaeology and Ethics
- HIGHLIGHT 13.2 Heritage Management in Australia
- Chapter Summary
- Key Concepts
- Suggested Readings
- Chapter 14 Archaeology in Today’s World
- Archaeology Today
- Archaeology and Politics
- Who Owns the Past?
- HIGHLIGHT 14.1 Indians and Archaeologists in the United States
- Learning From the Past: Applying Archaeology to Contemporary Problems
- HIGHLIGHT 14.2 The Ancient Maya and the Rain Forest
- Archaeology and Information Technology
- Archaeology, Mass Media, and Public Perception
- So What? The Significance of Archaeology
- Chapter Summary
- Suggested Readings
- Glossary
- References
- Photo Credits
- Index
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