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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Photograph and Illustration Credits | |
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| Defining Archaeology | |
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| Yes, Wonderful Things | |
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| The Wet Frontier: Underwater Archaeology | |
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| Proving Ground of the Nuclear Age | |
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| The Archaeology of Contemporary Mass Graves | |
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| A Love for the Ages | |
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| Archaeology's Past | |
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| The Discovery of Prehistory | |
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| The Enlightened Archaeologist | |
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| The Archaeology of Human Origins and the Human Diaspora | |
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| Old Flame | |
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| Ape at the Brink | |
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| The First Europeans | |
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| New Evidence Challenges Traditional Model of How the New World Was Settled | |
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| Conducting Fieldwork in Archaeology | |
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| Surveying Ancient Cities | |
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| Diving into the Wreck | |
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| Thailand's Good Mound | |
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| Measuring Time in Archaeology | |
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| The Dating Game | |
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| A Modern Riddle of the Sphinx | |
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| The Earliest Art Becomes Older - and More Common | |
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| New Techniques in Archaeology | |
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| Blood From Stones: Tests for Prehistoric Blood Cast Doubt on Earlier Results | |
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| Tales from the Crypt | |
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| Tracking Ohio's Hopewell Road | |
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| Who Was the Iceman? | |
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| Archaeological Approaches to Technology | |
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| Ice Age Lamps | |
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| Late Ice Hunting Technology | |
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| Bamboo and Human Evolution | |
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| Moving the Moai: Transporting the Megaliths of Easter Island | |
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| Making a Living | |
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| Polynesian Acnestors and Their Animal World | |
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| Finding the First Farmers | |
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| Raised Field Agriculture in the Titicaca Basin: Putting Ancient Agriculture Back to Work | |
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| Household Craft Specialization and Shell Ornament Manufacture in Ejutla, Mexico | |
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| Social and Political Life in the Ancient World | |
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| Cemetery Reveals Complex Aboriginal Society | |
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| Masters and Slaves in an Iron Age Care? | |
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| Platform Mounds of the Arizona Desert: An Experiment in Organizational Complexity | |
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| Mighty Cahokia | |
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| Settlement Patterns and Community Organization in the Maya Lowlands | |
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| Empires in the Dust | |
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| Art, Ritual, and Ideology | |
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| Reading the Minds of Rock Artists | |
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| Neptune's Ice Age Gallery | |
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| The Dawn of Adornment | |
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| Rise and Fall of the City of the Gods | |
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| Experiment and Ethnography in "Living Archaeology" | |
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| The Last Stone Ax Makers | |
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| Ethnoarchaeology at the Top of the World: New Ceramic Studies Among the Kalinga of Luzon | |
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| Understanding the Past Through Hopi Oral History | |
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| Putting Voyaging Back into Polynesian Prehistory | |
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| Archaeology and the Contemporary World | |
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| The Past as Propaganda | |
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| Bones and Bureaucrats: New York's Great Cemetery Imbroglio | |
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| Collaboration at Inyan Ceyaka Atonwan (Village of the Rapids) | |
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| Archaeology Returns to the Public | |
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| Signatures Across the Landscape: The El Pilar Archaeological Reserve for Maya Flora and Fauna - Belize/Guatemala | |
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| Archaeology's Future | |
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| In Our Grandmother's House | |
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| The Destruction of the Past | |
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| Fingerprints in the Sand: Federal Agents Use Dirty Evidence Against Archaeological Thieves | |
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| Lost City in the Jungle | |
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| Index | |