دانلود کتاب Archaeology Essentials: Theories, Methods and Practice

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Cover (Archaeology Essentials) Front Matter Half Title Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Introduction: The Nature and Aims of Archaeology 1 - The Searchers: The History of Archaeology The Speculative Phase The Beginnings of Modern Archaeology Classification and Consolidation A Turning Point in Archaeology 2 - What Is Left?: The Variety of the Evidence Basic Categories of Archaeological Evidence Formation Processes Cultural Formation Processes – How People Have Affected What Survives in the Archaeological Record Natural Formation Processes – How Nature Affects What Survives in the Archaeological Record 3 - Where?: Survey and Excavation of Sites and Features Locating Archaeological Sites and Features Assessing the Layout of Sites and Features Excavation 4 - When?: Dating Methods and Chronology Relative Dating Stratigraphy: Ordering Archaeological Layers Typological Sequences: Comparing Objects Environmental Sequences Absolute Dating Calendars and Historical Chronologies Annual Cycles Radioactive Clocks Other Absolute Dating Methods World Chronology 5 - How Were Societies Organized?: Social Archaeology Establishing the Nature and Scale of the Society Methods of Social Analysis The Archaeology of the Individual and of Identity 6 - What Was the Environment and What Did They Eat?: Environment, Subsistence, and Diet Investigating Environments on a Global Scale Reconstructing the Plant Environment Reconstructing the Animal Environment Subsistence and Diet What Can Plant Foods Tell Us About Diet? Investigating Diet, Seasonality, and Domestication From Animal Remains Assessing Diet From Human Remains 7 - How Were Artifacts Made, Used, and Distributed?: Technology, Trade, and Exchange Unaltered Materials Synthetic Materials Trade and Exchange 8 - What Were They Like?: The Bioarchaeology of People Identifying Physical Attributes Disease, Deformity, and Death Diet and Nutrition 9 - What Did They Think?: Cognitive Archaeology Cognitive Archaeology Working with Symbols The Impact of Literacy 10 - Why Did Things Change?: Explanation in Archaeology Migrationist and Diffusionist Explanations The Processual Approach The Form of Explanation: Specific or General? Explanation: One Cause or Several? Postprocessual or Interpretive Explanation Cognitive Archaeology Agency and Material Engagement 11 - Whose Past?: Archaeology and the Public The Meaning of the Past: The Archaeology of Identity Archaeological Ethics Popular Archaeology vs Pseudoarchaeology Who Owns the Past? The Responsibility of Collectors and Museums 12 - The Future of the Past: Managing Our Heritage The Destruction of the Past The Response: Survey, Conservation, and Mitigation Publication, Archives, and Resources What Use Is the Past? Building a Career in Archaeology Glossary Illustration Credits Useful Websites Index