Archaeology: The BasicsPsychology Press, 2004 - 239 pages From archaeological jargon to interpretation, Archaeology: The Basics provides an invaluable overview of a fascinating subject and probes the depths of this increasingly popular discipline, presenting critical approaches to the understanding of our past. Lively and engaging, Archaeology: The Basics fires the archaeological imagination whilst tackling such questions as:
This ultimate guide for all new and would-be archaeologists, whether they are students or interested amateurs, will prove an invaluable introduction to this wonderfully infectious discipline. |
Contents
What is archaeology? | 1 |
Three political contexts | 2 |
How has archaeology changed? | 6 |
Two basic concepts | 7 |
a case study | 11 |
The archaeological cafeteria is that really archaeology? | 15 |
How many archaeologies are there? | 21 |
Culture history | 22 |
Interpreting artefacts | 102 |
Dualisms | 105 |
Style | 107 |
The biography of objects | 115 |
Summary | 120 |
Time and space | 123 |
Contexts and entities | 124 |
Time | 132 |
Anthropological archaeology | 24 |
Summary | 42 |
Basic concepts | 45 |
Starting out with a research design | 46 |
The representative sample | 48 |
Survey and excavation | 50 |
Recovery | 51 |
Archaeological entities | 52 |
Two principles | 59 |
The archaeological record | 67 |
Summary | 71 |
People | 73 |
Who do we want to know? | 74 |
What can we know? | 83 |
How do we know? | 92 |
Summary | 97 |
Objects | 99 |
Material culture | 100 |
Mental templates | 101 |
Space | 139 |
Pattern recognition | 141 |
Analytical approaches to space | 144 |
Summary | 152 |
Change and stasis | 155 |
Questions about change | 156 |
Mechanisms and models | 178 |
What makes a good explanation in archaeology | 181 |
Summary | 188 |
Identity and power | 189 |
Two identities | 190 |
What we mean by power | 191 |
The identity within | 196 |
The identity from | 208 |
archaeology the future | 217 |
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action activity analogy analysis anthropological archaeology approach archaeo archaeological culture archaeological imagination archaeological record artefacts assemblages attributes basic behaviour Binford boundaries Bronze Age Chapter Christopher Tilley civilisation Colin Renfrew complex concepts context culture history define entities essence ethnicity Europe evolution evolutionary example excavation explanation Feminist archaeology Figure François Bordes gender Hodder hominid human hunters and gatherers identity important individual inference interaction interpretive archaeology investigation issues landscape of habit living logy London Marxist material culture meaning Mesoamerica middle-range theory modern monuments Mousterian nationalism neo-Darwinian Neolithic Neolithic Revolution networks objects organisation origins Palaeolithic past patterns Post-processualism pots pottery prehistoric processual archaeology processualists production questions recognise region relationships Renfrew research designs sample scale seriation Shennan Shorncote social society space spatial stasis stone stratigraphy structure style Sutton Hoo symbolic taphonomy techniques technocomplex Tilley tion types understanding variation