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Archaeology Essentials is designed for college students taking an introductory course in archaeology. It aims to convey some of the excitement of archaeology in the twenty-first century and to give students a concise and readable account of the ways in which modern archaeologists investigate and understand our remote past.
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Information
Searching
for
the
Past
The
History
of
Archaeology
Archaeology
as
a
Discipline
11
The
Important
Questions
15
Understanding
the
History
of
Archaeology
15
The
First
Searchers:
The
Speculative
Phase
16
The
First
Excavations
17
The
Beginnings
of
Modern
Archaeology
18
The
Antiquity
of
Humankind
and
the
Concept
of
Evolution
19
The
Three
Age
System
20
Ethnography
and
Archaeology
20
Discovering
the
Early
Civilizations
21
The
Development
of
Field
Techniques
22
Classification
and
Consolidation
25
The
Ecological
Approach
26
The
Rise
of
Archaeological
Science
27
A
Turning
Point
in
Archaeology
27
The
Birth
of
the
New
Archaeology
28
The
Postprocessual
Debate
of
the
1980s
and
1990s
30
Pluralizing
Pasts
32
The
Development
of
Public
Archaeology
33
❑
Further
Women
Pioneers
of
Archaeology
34
Indigenous
Archaeologies
35
Study
Questions
36
Summary
37
Further
Reading
37
1
Table of contents
- Archaeology Essentials, 4E
- Preface
- 1. Searching for the Past: The History of Archaeology
- 2. What Is Left?: The Variety of the Evidence
- 3. Where?: Survey and Excavation of Sites and Features
- 4. When?: Dating Methods and Chronology
- 5. How Were Societies Organized?: Social Archaeology
- 6. What Was the Environment and What Did They Eat?: Environment, Subsistence, and Diet
- 7. How Were Artifacts Made, Used, and Distributed?: Technology, Trade, and Exchange
- 8. What Were They Like?: The Bioarchaeology of People
- 9. What Did They Think?: Cognitive Archaeology
- 10. Why Did Things Change?: Explanation in Archaeology
- 11. Whose Past?: Archaeology and the Public
- 12. The Future of the Past: Managing Our Heritage
- Glossary
- Illustration Credits
- Useful Websites
- Index