Part I : Archaeological Methods -- 1. The Discovery of Archaeological Sites / Steven Ball -- 2. Dating Archaeological Materials / R. E. Taylor -- 3. The Conservation of Archaeological Materials / Catherine Sease -- 4. Lithic Analysis : Chipped Stone Tools and Waste Flakes in Archaeology / Robert L. Kelly -- 5. Learning About the Past through Archaeological Ceramics : An Example from Vijayanagara, India -- 6. The Analysis of Archaeological Plant Remains / Naomi F. Miller -- 7. The Study of Human Subsistence Behavior Using Faunal Evidence from Archaeological Sites / Richard W. Redding -- 8. Bare Bones Anthropology : The Bioarchaeology of Human Remains / Clark Spencer Larsen -- 9. Dental Deductions : Why and How Anthropologists Study Teeth / John R. Lukacs Part II : Issues and Controversies in Contemporary Archaeology -- 10. Where Our Ancestors Hunters or Scavengers? / John D. Speth -- 11. When and How Did Humans Populate the New World? / William J. Parry -- 12. Were Early Agriculturalists Less Healthy Than Food-Collectors? / Mark Nathan Cohen -- 13. Maya Hieroglyphs : History or Propaganda? / Joyce Marcus -- 14. Gender and Archaeology / Cheryl Claassen -- 15. Prehistoric Social Evolution / Kent V. Flannery -- 16. Ethics in Archaeology / Mark J. Lynott Part III : Archaeological Case Studies -- 17. Cloth Production and Gender Relations in the Inka [Inca] Empire / Cathy Lynne Costin -- 18. Investigating Craft Specialization during the Longshan Period in China / Anne P. Underhill -- 19. Reading the Land : The Archaeology of Settlement and Land Use / Carole L. Crumley -- 20. Archaeological Survey in the Mixtec Sierra / Laura Finsten -- 21. Exploring Aztalan and Its Role in Mississippian Societies / Lynne Goldstein -- 22. Ancestor Veneration in Lowland Maya Society : a Case Study from K'axob, Belize / Patricia McAnany -- 23. De-Mystifying the Past : The Great Zimbabwe, King Solomon's Mines and Other Tales of Old Africa / Joseph O. Vogel Part IV : Archaeologists at Work -- 24. Archaeologist at Work / Richard E. Blanton -- 25. Origins of Social Inequality / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel.
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