Includes bibliographical references.

Preface -- |t Introduction - The nature and aims of archaeology -- |t The searchers - The history of archaeology -- |t What is left? - The variety of the evidence -- |t Where? - Survey and excavation of sites and features -- |t When? - Dating methods and chronology -- |t How were societies organized? - Social archaeology -- |t What was the environment and what did they eat? - Environment, subsistence, and diet -- |t How were artifacts made, used, and distributed? - Technology, trade, and exchange -- |t What were they like? - The bioarchaeology of people -- |t What did they think? - Cognitive archaeology -- |t Why did things change? - Explanation in archaeology -- |t Who's past? - Archaeology and the public -- |t the future of the past - Managing our heritage.

A guide to all aspects of archaeology, this work provides a readable and compact introduction to archaeology for those new to the field. Long-established techniques are carefully explained as well as exciting new methods as the authors describe the ways in which archaeologists seek to explain and interpret the remote past of humankind.

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