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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPART I: BACKGROUND TO ARCHAEOLOGY
Chapter 1: Introducing Archaeology
Chapter 2: The Beginnings of Scientific Archaeology: Sixth Century B.C. to the 1950s
Chapter 3: The Many-Voiced Past: Archaeological Thought from the 1950s to Now
PART II: THE BASICS
Chapter 4: Matrix and Preservation
Chapter 5: Doing Archaeological Research
Chapter 6: Culture, Data, and Context
Chapter 7: How Old Is It?
PART III: RECOVERING THE DATA
Chapter 8: They Sought It Here, They Sought It There: Finding the Past
Chapter 9: How to Excavate
PART IV: ANALYZING THE PAST: ARTIFACTS AND TECHNOLOGY
Chapter 10: Classifying Artifacts
Chapter 11: Technologies of the Ancients
PART V: STUDYING ENVIRONMENTS AND PEOPLE
Chapter 12: Ancient Environments
Chapter 13: What Did We Eat?
Chapter 14: The Living Past
Chapter 15: Landscape and Settlement
Chapter 16: Interactions: People of the Past
Chapter 17: Archaeology and the Intangible
PART VI: MANAGING THE PAST
Chapter 18: Cultural Resource Management and Public Archaeology
Chapter 19: Archaeology and Contemporary Society
PART VII: CAREERS AND RESOURCES
Chapter 20: So You Want to Become an Archaeologist?
