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• Part I – The Framework of Archaeology
• 1 – The Searchers: The History of Archaeology
• The Speculative Phase
• The Beginnings of Modern Archaeology
• Classification and Consolidation
• A Turning Point in Archaeology
• World Archaeology
• 2 – What Is Left?: The Variety of the Evidence
• Types of Archaeological Evidence
• Formation Processes
• Cultural Formation Processes—How People Have Affected What Survives in the Archaeological Record
• Natural Formation Processes—How Nature Affects What Survives in the Archaeological Record
• The Archaeological Record and Context
• 3 – Where?: Survey and Excavation of Sites and Features
• Discovering Archaeological Sites and Features
• Assessing the Layout of Sites and Features
• Excavation
• 4 – When?: Dating Methods and Chronology
• Stratigraphy
• Typology
• Linguistic Dating
• Climate Change and Chronology
• Calendars and Historical Chronologies
• Dendrochronology and Annual Cycles
• Radioactive Clocks
• Other Absolute Dating Methods
• Genetic Dating
• Chronological Correlations
• World Chronology
• Part II – Discovering the Variety of Human Experience
• 5 – How Were Societies Organized?: Social Archaeology
• Scale of the Society
• Investigating Hierarchies
• Collective Works and Communal Action
• Heterarchies
• Economic Specialization
• Centralized Societies
• Settlements and Territories
• Further Sources of Information for Social Organization
• The Archaeology of the Individual and of Identity
• 6 – What was the Environment?: Environmental Archaeology
• Investigating Environments on a Global Scale
• Studying the Landscape: Geoarchaeology
• Reconstructing the Plant Environment
• Reconstructing the Animal Environment
• Reconstructing the Human Environment
• 7 – What Did They Eat?: Subsistence and Diet
• Information from Plant Remains
• Information from Animal Remains
• Evidence of Animal-Resource Exploitation
• Assessing Diet from Human Remains
• 8 – How Did They Make and Use Tools?: Technology and Material Culture
• Unaltered Materials: Stone
• Other Unaltered Materials
• Synthetic Materials
• Archaeometallurgy
• 9 – What Contact Did They Have?: Trade and Exchange
• The Study of Interaction
• Finding the Sources of Traded Goods: Characterization
• The Study of Distribution
• The Study of Consumption
• Exchange and Interaction: The Complete System
• 10 – What Did They Think?: Cognition, Art, and Religion
• The Evolution of Human Symbolizing Faculties
• How Symbols Were Used
• Writing
• Establishing Place: The Location of Memory
• Measuring the World
• Planning: Maps for The Future
• Symbols of Organization and Power
• Symbols for the “Other World”: The Archaeology of Religion
• Depiction: Art and Representation
• Music and Cognition
• Mind and Material Engagement
• 11 – Who Were They? What Were They Like?: The Bioarchaeology of People
• Identifying Physical Attributes
• Assessing Human Abilities
• Disease, Deformity, and Death
• Assessing Nutrition
• Population Studies
• Diversity and Evolution
• Identity and Personhood
• 12 – Why Did Things Change?: Explanation in Archaeology
• The Form of Explanation: General or Particular
• Migrationist and Diffusionist Explanations
• The Processual Approach
• Applications of Processual Archaeology
• Attempts at Explanation: One Cause or Several?
• Postprocessual or Interpretive Explanation
• Cognitive Archaeology
• The Individual, Agency, and Material Engagement
• Part III – The World of Archaeology
• 13 – Archaeology in Action: Five Case Studies
• Oaxaca: The Origins and Rise of the Zapotec State
• The Calusa of Florida: A Complex Hunter-Gatherer Society
• Research Among Hunter-Gatherers: Upper Mangrove Creek, Australia
• Khok Phanom Di: Rice Farming in Southeast Asia
• York and the Public Presentation of Archaeology
• 14 – Whose Past?: Archaeology and the Public
• The Meaning of the Past: The Archaeology of Identity
• Archaeological Ethics
• Community Archaeology
• Popular Archaeology Versus Pseudoarchaeology
• Who Owns the Past?
• The Responsibility of Collectors and Museums
• 15 – The Future of the Past: How to Manage the Heritage?
• The Destruction of the Past
• The Response: Survey, Conservation, and Mitigation
• Heritage Management, Display, and Tourism
• Who Interprets and Presents the Past?
• The Past for All People and All Peoples
• What Use Is the Past?
• Glossary
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Useful Websites
• Acknowledgments
• Index