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Background To Archaeology | |
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Introducing Archaeology | |
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The Beginnings of Scientific Archaeology: Sixth Century B.C. to the 1950s | |
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The Many-Voiced Past: Archaeological Thought from the 1950s to Now | |
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The Basics | |
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Matrix and Preservation | |
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Doing Archaeological Research | |
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Culture, Data, and Context | |
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How Old Is It? | |
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Recovering The Data | |
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They Sought It Here, They Sought It There: Finding the Past | |
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How to Excavate | |
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Analyzing The Past: Artifacts And Technology | |
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Classifying Artifacts | |
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Technologies of the Ancients | |
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Studying Environments And People | |
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Ancient Environments | |
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What Did We Eat? | |
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The Living Past | |
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Landscape and Settlement | |
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Interactions: People of the Past | |
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Archaeology and the Intangible | |
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Managing The Past | |
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Cultural Resource Management and Public Archaeology | |
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Archaeology and Contemporary Society | |
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Careers And Resources | |
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So You Want to Become an Archaeologist? | |
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Background To Archaeology | |
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Introducing Archaeology | |
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The First Archaeologist | |
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What is Archaeology Today? | |
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Who are the Archaeologists? | |
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Why Study Archaeology? | |
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Who Owns the Past? | |
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Is Archaeology in Crisis? | |
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What are the Goals of Archaeology? | |
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The Beginnings of Scientific Archaeology: Sixth Century B.C. to the 1950s | |
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Beginnings | |
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Scriptures and Fossils | |
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The Antiquity of Humankind | |
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The Three-Age System | |
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Human Progress | |
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Historical Particularism | |
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Culture History | |
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Old World Archaeology | |
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American Archaeology | |
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The Americas: Chronology and Time Scales | |
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Cultural Ecology | |
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The Many-Voiced Past: Archaeological Thought from the 1950s to Now | |
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Culture History | |
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The "New" Archaeology | |
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Processual Archaeology | |
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Postprocessual Archaeology | |
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Some Schools of Archaeological Theory | |
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Where is Archaeological Theory Headed? | |
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The Basics | |
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Matrix and Preservation | |
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Archaeological Data | |
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Site-Formation Processes | |
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Discovery: Eruption at Akrotiri, Greece, c. 1688 B.C. | |
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The Matrix: Preservation and Human Activity | |
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Preservation Conditions: Inorganic and Organic Materials | |
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Organic Materials and the Archaeological Record | |
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Doing Archaeological Research | |
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The Archaeologist's Skills | |
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Archaeology and Science | |
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The Process of Archaeological Research | |
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Culture, Data, and Context | |
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The Concept of Culture | |
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The Nature of Culture | |
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Models of Culture | |
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The Archaeological Record | |
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Matrix and Provenance | |
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Archaeological Context | |
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Artifacts, Subassemblages, and Assemblages | |
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Archaeological Sites | |
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Cultures, Areas, Regions, and Settlement Patterns | |
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How Old Is It? | |
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Cyclical and Linear Time | |
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Relative Chronology | |
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Absolute Chronology | |
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Recovering The Data | |
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They Sought It Here, They Sought It There: Finding the Past | |
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Finding Archaeological Sites | |
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Approaches to Archaeological Survey | |
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Remote Sensing | |
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Recording Archaeological Sites | |
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Subsurface Detection | |
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How to Excavate | |
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Directors, Teams, and Staffs | |
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Permits | |
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Planning an Excavation | |
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Tools of the Trade | |
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The Process of Archaeological Excavation | |
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Special Excavation Issues | |
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Analyzing The Past: Artifacts And Technology | |
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Classifying Artifacts | |
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Classification | |
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Processes of Archaeological Classification | |
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Assemblages and Patterns | |
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What Do Assemblages and Patterns Mean? | |
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Technologies of the Ancients | |
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Stone | |
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Clay (Ceramics) | |
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Metals and Metallurgy | |
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Bone | |
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Wood | |
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Basketry and Textiles | |
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Studying Environments And People | |
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Ancient Environments | |
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Long-Term and Short-Term Climatic Change | |
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Geoarchaeology | |
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Long-Term Climatic Change: The Great Ice Age | |
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Holocene Environmental Reconstruction | |
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Reconstructing Humanly-Caused Environmental Change | |
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What Did We Eat? | |
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Studying Subsistence | |
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nimal Bones (Zooarchaeology) | |
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Plant Remains | |
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Birds, Fish, and Mollusks | |
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Subsistence Data from Rock Art | |
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Ancient Diet | |
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The Living Past | |
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Early Comparisons | |
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Analogy | |
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Middle-Range Theory | |
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Ethnoarchaeology | |
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Experimental Archaeology | |
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Landscape and Settlement | |
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Settlement Archaeology and Settlement Patterns | |
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Households | |
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Communities | |
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Studying Large Communities | |
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Studying Distributions of Communities | |
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Case Studies of Settlement Distribution | |
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The Archaeology of Landscape | |
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Interactions: People of the Past | |
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An Individual: tzi the Ice Man | |
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Bioarchaeology: What Human Bones Tell Us | |
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Genetics and DNA | |
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Groups: Ancient Social Organization | |
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Gender: (Beyond) Men and Women | |
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Engendered Research | |
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Ethnicity and Inequality | |
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Exchange and Trade | |
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Archaeology and the Intangible | |
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A Framework of Common Belief | |
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Cognitive Archaeology | |
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Ethnographic Analogy and Rock Art | |
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The Archaeology of Death | |
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Artifacts: The Importance of Context | |
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Artifacts and Art Styles | |
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Sacred Places | |
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Astroarchaeology and Stonehenge | |
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Southwestern Astronomy and Chaco Canyon | |
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Managing The Past | |
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Cultural Resource Management and Public Archaeology | |
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Legislating the Past | |
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What Is Protected? | |
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Phases of Site Management | |
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Management versus Research | |
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Strategies of CRM Research | |
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Management Challenges | |
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Public Involvement and Public Archaeology | |
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Native Americans and CRM | |
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Cultural Resource Management around the World | |
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Archaeology and Contemporary Society | |
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Archaeology and Human Diversity | |
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Archaeology and Human History | |
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Archaeological Tourism | |
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Archaeology and Subsistence Agriculture | |
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Garbology | |
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Archaeology and the Environment | |
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Heritage and Stewardship | |
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Careers And Resources | |
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So You Want to Become an Archaeologist? | |
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Archaeology as a Profession | |
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Academic Qualifications: Graduate School | |
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Thoughts on Not Becoming a Professional Archaeologist | |
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Our Responsibilities to the Past | |