Reading Archaeology

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Recognizing and Reading Archaeological Literature

Part 1: Situating Archaeology: Past and Present

""Ethnical Periods""
Lewis Henry Morgan 

""The Curse of the Curse of the Pharoahs""
David Silverman

""From Theory to Theme Parks and the Man on the Moon: Archaeology in Contemporary Academia, Industry, and Popular Culture""
Robert J. Muckle

""Garbology: The Archaeology of Fresh Garbage""
W.L. Rathje

""Using the Past to Protect the Future: Marking Nuclear Waste Disposal Sites""
Maureen F. Kaplan and Mel Adams 

""Identifying Victims after a Disaster""
Dick Gould

""The Craft of Archaeology""
Michael Shanks and Randall H. McGuire

Part 2: Ethics, Legislation, and Intellectual Property Rights

""Private Property-National Legacy""
Mark Michel 

""Can You Dig It? The Growing Importance of Ethical Considerations is Transforming Archaeology""   
Anonymous

""Society for American Archaeology Principles of Archaeological Ethics""
Society for American Archaeology  

""Copyrighting the Past? Emerging Intellectual Property Rights Issues in Archaeology""
George P. Nicholas and Kelly P. Bannister

Part 3: Working in the Field and Laboratory 

""Historical Archaeology Methods: Much More Than Digging with Small Tools""
Kelly J. Dixon

""Looking for Sites in All the Right Places""
Ronald D. Lippi

""Studying Archaeological Fieldwork in the Field: Views from Monte Polizzo""
Cornelius Holtorf

""Notes on the Life History of a Pot Sherd""
Cornelius Holtorf

""Microwear Polishes on Early Stone Tools from Koobi Fora, Kenya""
Lawrence H. Keeley and Nicholas Toth

""Pottery and Its History""
Prudence M. Rice

Part 4: Reconstructing Culture History and Past Lifeways 

""Chronology and the Human Narrative""
J.A.J. Gowlett

""Archaeology and Age of a New Hominin from Flores in Eastern Indonesia""
M.J. Morwood et al.  

""Gender in Inuit Burial Practices""
Barbara A. Crass

""Women and Men at Catalhoyuk""
Ian Hodder

""African American Ethnicity""
Timothy Baumann

""Pirate Imagery""
Lawrence E. Babits, Joshua B. Howard, and Matthew Brenckle

""The Archaeology of Religion""
Colin Renfrew

Part 5: Explaining Things of Archaeological Interest

""The Epistemology of Archaeology""
Peter Kosso

""The Ancient Maya and the Political Present""
Richard R. Wilk

""War in the Southwest, War in the World""
Steven H. Lekson

""Were Luxury Foods the First Domesticates? Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives from Southeast Asia""
Brian Hayden

""The Maya Collapses""
Jared Diamond

Appendix: Periodicals of Interest to Archaeologists

Sources