Archaeology : Theories, Methods and Practice (Paperback, Seventh edition)

Part I - The Framework of Archaeology The Searchers: The History of Archaeology * What is Left? The Variety of the Evidence * Where? Survey and Excavation of Sites and Features * When? Dating Methods and Chronology * Part II - Discovering the Variety of Human Experience How Where Societies Organized? Social Archaeology * What Was the Environment? Environmental Archaeology * What Did They Eat? Subsistence and Diet * How Did They Make and Use Tools? Technology * What Contact Did They Have? Trade and Exchange * What Did They Think? Cognitive Archaeology, Art and Religion * Who Were They? What Were They Like? The Bioarchaeology of People * Why Did Things Change? Explanation in Archaeology Part III - The World of Archaeology Archaeology in action: Five Case Studies * Whose Past? Archaeology and the Public * The Future of the Past; How to Manage the Heritage? * The New Searchers; Building a Career in archaeology * Glossary, Notes and Bibliography, Index