What Happened in Prehistory?

I. BACKGROUND TO ARCHAEOLOGY.

1. Introducing Archaeology.

II. A SHORT HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY: SIXTH CENTURY B.C. THROUGH A.D. 2000.

2. The Beginnings of Scientific Archaeology: Sixth Century B.C. to the 1950s.
3. Science, Ecology, and the Many-Voiced Past: The 1950s to Today.

III. BASIC PROCESSES AND PRINCIPLES.

4. Matrix and Preservation.
5. Doing Archaeological Research.
6. Culture, Data, and Context.
7. How Old Is It?

IV. RECOVERING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA.

8. Finding and Assessing Archaeological Sites.
9. Archaeological Excavation.

V. ANALYZING THE PAST: ARTIFACTS AND TECHNOLOGY.

10. Classifying Artifacts.
11. Technologies of the Ancients.

VI. ENVIRONMENTS, LIFEWAYS, PEOPLE, AND THE INTANGIBLE.

12. Ancient Environments.
13. Subsistence and Diet.
14. Analogy, Middle-Range Theory, and the Living Past.
15. Settlement Archaeology.
16. Interactions: People of the Past.
17. Archaeology of the Intangible.

VII. EXPLAINING CULTURE CHANGE IN THE PAST.

18. Theoretical Approaches: From Culture History to Postprocessualism.

VIII. CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.

19. Managing the Past and Public Archaeology.

IX. CAREERS AND RESOURCES.

20. Becoming an Archaeologist.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Photo Credits.
Index.

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