Principles of Archaeology
Doug Price,
University of Wisconsin - Madison
ISBN: 0072961481 Copyright year: 2007 Table of Contents
Part I. INTRODUCTIONChapter 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS ARCHAEOLOGY?
- ARCHAEOLOGY IS...
- ARCHAEOLOGY IS NOT...
- Example: The Piltdown Man
- Example: Erich von Däniken
EVALUATING SCIENCE AND PSUEDOSCIENCE
- THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
- EVOLUTION
- EVOLUTION AND CREATIONISM
- WHY STUDY ARCHAEOLOGY?
- CAREERS IN ARCHAEOLOGY
- Survey Says...
- A Day in the Life...
- University Professor: Tina Thurston
- State Archaeologist: Maureen Kavanagh
- Museum Curator: Anne Underhill
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 2. DOING ARCHAEOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION: THE LORDS OF THE MOCHE
- PERU AND THE MOCHE
- DISCOVERY
- EXCAVATION
- ANALYSIS
- Science in Archaeology: The Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology
INTERPRETATION
- Protecting the Past: Tourism and a New Museum in Lambayeque
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 3. A BRIEF HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION: THE HISTORY OF PREHISTORY
- PRE-1900
- Example: Jefferson at Rivanna River
1900-1950
- Example: Woolley at Ur
- Protecting the Past: The Ancient City of Ur
1950-2000
- Example: FAI 270
- Archaeological Thinking: House Size and Population
TODAY: THE FUTURE OF THE PAST
- CONCLUSIONS
Part II. DISCOVERY- Chapter 4. ARCHAEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS
- INTRODUCTION: THE SUBJECT MATTER OF ARCHAEOLOGY
- WHAT DO ARCHAEOLOGISTS WANT TO KNOW?
- Environment
- Demography
- Example: The Black Earth Site
- Technology
- Economy
- Example: Jomon Japan
- Organization
- Ideology
- Archaeological Thinking: Ritual in Ancient Oaxaca
ETHNOGRAPHY
- Example: Settlement Population and Floor Area
ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY
- Example: Harrapan Beads
EXPERIMENTAL ARCHEOLOGY
- CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 5. THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD
- INTRODUCTION: INFORMATION FROM THE PAST
- SCALE
- CONTEXT
- Archaeological Thinking: The First Americans
THE NATURE OF THE EVIDENCE
- Attributes
- Artifacts
- Ecofacts
- Features and Activity Areas
- Example: The Tomb of Qin Shihuang
- Assemblages and Components
- Sites
- Example: South African Rock Art
- Science in Archaeology: Dating the Paintings
- Regions and Landscapes
- Example: A Landscape of Mounds
SPATIAL ARCHAEOLOGY
- Within Site Spatial Analysis: Activity Areas and Features
- Example: Activity Areas at Teotihuacán, Mexico
- Protecting the Past: The City of the Gods
- Within Site Spatial Analysis: Houses and Households
- Example: Household Archaeology at Agayadan Village, Alaska
- Site Analysis
- Regional Spatial Analysis
SITE FORMATION
- PRESERVATION
- Example: Windover Pond, Florida
- Example: The Iceman
- Protecting the Past: Ötzi's New Home
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 6. FIELDWORK.
- INTRODUCTION: FINDING THE PAST
- THE DISCOVERY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES
- Archaeological Survey
- Archaeological Thinking: Reese River Valley
- Archaeological Excavation
- Selecting Sites for Excavation
- Test Pits
- Vertical Excavation
- Horizontal or Area Excavations
- Screening and Flotation
- Example: Great Hall at Lejre
- Underwater Archaeology
THE TOOLS OF FIELDWORK
- Maps and Grids
- Contour Maps
- The Total Station
- Science in Archaeology: Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Soil Sampling
- Remote Sensing
- Remote Sensing from Above
- Example: Chaco Roads
- Remote Sensing On the Ground
- Science in Archaeology: Georadar at Petra
IN THE FIELD
- The Project Director
- The Field Crew
- The Field Experience
- Example: Life in the Field
- Fieldwork Opportunities
- Equipment
CONCLUSIONS
- PROJECT: DISCOVERING SITES
Part III. ANALYSIS- Chapter 7. CLASSIFICATION AND DATA
- INTRODUCTION: SORTING, TYPES, AND NUMBERS
- CLEANING AND CATALOGING
- CONSERVATION
- Example: Lindow Man
CLASSIFICATION
- Archaeological Thinking: Iroquois Pottery
- Classifying Artifacts
- Raw Material
- Technology
- Function and Style
- Temporal and Geographic Variation
- Archaeological Thinking: Styles of Gravestones
- Archaeological Thinking: Seriation
DATA
- Numbers
- Basic Statistics
- Mean, Median, and Mode
- Range, Variance, Standard Deviation
- Normal Curve
- Chi-Square and Contingency Tables
- Visual Display of Information
- Stem and Leaf Plots
- Bar Graphs and Histograms
- Box and Whisker Plots
- Pie Charts
- Scatterplots
CONCLUSIONS
- PROJECT: A ROOM IN THE PUEBLO
Chapter 8. DATING
- INTRODUCTION: FRAMEWORKS FOR MEASURING TIME
- RELATIVE DATING METHODS
- Example: Pipestems
RECKONING TIME
- ABSOLUTE DATING METHODS
- Dendrochronology
- Example: Pueblo Bonito
- Example: French Neolithic Lake Dwellings
- Radiocarbon Dating
- Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (AMS) Dating
- Example: Shroud of Turin
- Science in Archaeology: Early Agriculture
- Calibration
- Radiopotassium Dating
- Example: Laetoli: Our First Steps
- Protecting the Past: The Laetoli Footprints
- Thermoluminescence Dating
CONCLUSIONS
- PROJECT: DATING A SCYTHIAN TOMB
Chapter 9. GEOARCHAEOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION: GEOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
- GEOMORPHOLOGY
- Example: Geomorphology and Homer's Troy
STRATIGRAPHY
- Archaeological Thinking: The Harris Matrix
MICROMORPHOLOGY
- Example: Keatley Creek
- Science in Archaeology: The Petrographic Microscope
- Science in Archaeology: The Chemistry of House Floors
CATASTROPHE
- CONCLUSIONS
- PROJECT: ROMAN STRATIGRAPHY
Chapter 10: LITHICS ANALYSIS
- INTRODUCTION: STONE TOOLS AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
- FRACTURE MECHANICS AND RAW MATERIAL
- MAKING STONE TOOLS
- MAKING SENSE OF STONE TOOLS
- Typology
- Chaîne Opératoire
- Archaeological Thinking: Stone Tools and Hunter-Gatherers in Western Nevada
- Refitting
- Archaeological Thinking: How Many Layers?
- Microwear Analysis
- Science in Archaeology: Stone Tools and Food
- Example: The Careful Flintknapper
CONCLUSIONS
- PROJECT: STONE TOOLS AND THE AMERICAN BOTTOM
Chapter 11. CERAMIC ANALYSIS
- INTRODUCTION: PREHISTORIC POTTERY
- MAKING POTTERY
- Preparing the Paste
- Shaping the Vessel
- Decoration
- Firing
STUDYING POTTERY
- Initial Sorting
- Attributes of Form and Function
- Science in Archaeology: What's Cooking?
- Attributes of Style
- Archaeological Thinking: Iroquois Pottery
- Provenience Studies
- Ceramic Petrography
- Example: Icehouse Bottom
- Ceramic Composition
- Science in Archaeology: Salado Polychrome
CONCLUSIONS
- PROJECT: MEAN CERAMIC DATING
Chapter 12. ARCHAEOZOOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION: ANIMALS REMAINS AND ARCHAEOLOGY
- IDENTIFICATION AND COUNTS
- Example: Extinction Is Forever
AGE AND SEX
- Archaeological Thinking: Animal Domestication In Southwest Asia
SEASONALITY
- Example: Star Carr, England
- Science in Archaeology: Seasonality In The Preneolithic
TAPHONOMY
- BUTCHERY
- Example: Cut Marks And Early Humans
- Example: Gold Rush Menus
SECONDARY PRODUCTS
- WORKED BONE
- SHELLS AND SHELLFISH
- CONCLUSIONS
- PROJECT: SITE SEASONALITY
Chapter 13. ARCHAEOBOTANY
- INTRODUCTION: THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PLANTS
- MACROBOTANICAL REMAINS
- Flotation
- Sorting and Identification
- Example: Incinerator Site
- Protecting The Past: Sunwatch Indian Village/Archaeological Park
- Origins of Agriculture
- Archaeological Thinking: Domesticating Plants
- Example: Abu Hureyra
- Wood and Charcoal Identification
- Science in Archaeology: The Scanning Electron Microscope
- Example: Charcoal from Thera
MICROBOTANICAL REMAINS
- Palynology
- Example: The Elm Decline
CONCLUSIONS
- PROJECT: THE ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE
Chapter 14. BIOARCHAEOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION: THE SKELETAL EVIDENCE
- FIELD RECORDING
- PREPARATION AND SORTING
- IDENTIFICATION
- Example: Cannibalism
SEX, AGE, AND STATURE
- Archaeological Thinking: Maya Stature
STRESS, DISEASE, AND TRAUMA
- Example: Abu Hureyra
- Example: Raising the Dead: The Mary Rose
- Protecting the Past: The Mary Rose Today
GENETIC INFORMATION
- Modern DNA
- Ancient DNA
- Science in Archaeology: Neanderthal Genealogy
- Ancient DNA
MORTUARY ANALYSIS
- Example: LBK Cemetery at Nitra
- Example: Roy Mata
- Example: Moundville
- Protecting the Past: Moundville Archaeological Park
CONCLUSIONS
- PROJECT: MORTUARY ANALYSIS
Chapter 15. ARCHAEOMETRY
- INTRODUCTION: ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE LABORATORY
- INSTRUMENTATION
- Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA)
- Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS)
- X-ray Diffraction (XRD)
- Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS)
- Science in Archaeology: Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry
ELEMENTAL ANALYSES
- Example: Obsidian Sources and Trade in the Ancient Near East
- Ceramic Analysis
- Anthropogenic Sediments
- Example: El Coyote
ISOTOPIC ANALYSES
- Bone Chemistry and Prehistoric Diet
- Archaeological Thinking: Climate, Isotopes, and People
- Human Provenience and Migration
- Example: The First King of Copan
ORGANIC RESIDUES IN ARCHAEOLOGY
- CONCLUSIONS
- PROJECT: BONE CHEMISTRY
Part IV. INTERPRETATION- Chapter 16. EXPLANATION IN ARCHAEOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION: INTERPRETING THE PAST
- SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT
- Processual Archaeology
- Example: A Crossroads Of Barrows
- Archaeological Thinking: Mounds in Denmark
- Example: The Collapse Of Maya Civilization
- Archaeological Thinking: The End of the Maya
- Post-Processual Archaeology
- Example: The Rock Art Of Nämforsen, Sweden
- Archaeological Thinking: Text on Stone
- Evolution and Archaeology
- Selectionist Archaeology
- Example: Horses and Snowmobiles
- Archaeological Thinking: Pots as Tools
- Evolutionary Ecology
- Example: The Emeryville Shellmound, California
- Archaeological Thinking: Optimal Species
- Gender Archaeology
- Example: Aztec Women and State Economy
- Archaeological Thinking: Gender and Government in Ancient Mexico
NEW DIRECTIONS
- CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 17. RESPONSIBLITIES
- INTRODUCTION: ARCHAEOLOGY TODAY
- THE RELEVANCE OF ARCHAEOLOGY
- Example: Raised Fields of Tiwanaku
THE PAST AS HERITAGE
- Example: UNESCO World Heritage
- Protecting the Past: Abu Simbel
- Example: The Archaeological Conservancy
WHO OWNS THE PAST?
- Example: Kennewick Man
ETHICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY
- Example: Donnan and Sipán
- Example: The Ypres Battlefield
TEACHING ARCHAEOLOGY
- Example: Interest Groups in the Classroom
THE RESPONSIBLE ARCHAEOLOGIST
- CONCLUSIONS
- PROJECT: ETHICAL QUESTIONS
APPENDIX 1: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE HUMAN PAST
- INTRODUCTION: WORLD PREHISTORY
- GEOLOGICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL TIME
- AFRICA, ASIA, AND EUROPE
- Deep Roots in Africa
- Out of Africa
- Neanderthal
- The Creative Explosion
- The Origins of Agriculture
- States and Empires
THE AMERICAS
- The First Americans
- Farming Villages
- States and Empires
THE PACIFIC
- HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
- CONCLUSIONS
APPENDIX 2: COMMON MEASUREMENT CONVERSIONS AND EQUIVALENTS
CREDITS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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