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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Studying the History of Archaeology | |
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| Approaches to the History of Archaeology | |
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| Social Context | |
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| Archaeological Interpretation | |
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| Challenge | |
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| Classical and Other Text-Based Archaeologies | |
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| Interests in the Past | |
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| The Medieval View of History | |
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| Renaissance Antiquarianism | |
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| The Development of Classical Archaeology | |
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| Egyptology and Assyriology | |
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| Other First Archaeologies | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Antiquarianism without Texts | |
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| Antiquarianism in Northern Europe | |
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| Recognition of Stone Tools | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| Scientific Antiquarianism | |
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| Antiquarianism and Romanticism | |
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| The New World | |
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| The Impasse of Antiquarianism | |
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| The Beginnings of Prehistoric Archaeology | |
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| Relative Dating | |
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| The Development and Spread of Scandinavian Archaeology | |
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| The Antiquity of Humanity | |
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| Palaeolithic Archaeology | |
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| Reaction against Evolution | |
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| Archaeology in North America | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Evolutionary Archaeology | |
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| The Rise of Racism | |
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| Lubbock's Synthesis | |
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| Colonial Archaeology in the United States | |
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| Australian Prehistory | |
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| Archaeology in New Zealand | |
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| Racist Archaeology in Africa | |
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| The Legacy of Evolutionary Archaeology | |
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| Culture-Historical Archaeology | |
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| Early Interests in Ethnicity | |
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| Diffusionism | |
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| The Montelian Synthesis of European Prehistory | |
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| The Concept of Culture | |
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| The Birth of Culture-Historical Archaeology | |
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| Childe and The Dawn of European Civilization | |
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| European Archaeology and Nationalism | |
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| Other National Archaeologies | |
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| Culture-Historical Archaeology in the United States | |
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| Technical Developments | |
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| Theory | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Early Functional-Processual Archaeology | |
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| Environmental Functional-Processualism | |
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| Social Anthropology | |
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| Economic Approaches | |
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| Soviet Archaeology | |
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| Childe as a Marxist Archaeologist | |
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| Grahame Clark | |
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| Early Functionalism in the United States | |
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| The Conjunctive Approach | |
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| Ecological and Settlement Archaeology | |
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| World Archaeology | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Processualism and Postprocessualism | |
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| Neoevolutionism | |
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| Early New Archaeology | |
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| The Diversification of Processual Archaeology | |
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| Postprocessual Archaeology | |
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| Continental European Alternatives | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Pragmatic Synthesis | |
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| Competing Approaches | |
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| Theoretical Convergence | |
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| Middle-Ranging Theory | |
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| High-Level Theory | |
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| The Relevance of Archaeology | |
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| The Challenge of Relativism | |
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| The Development of Archaeology | |
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| Relations with Other Social Sciences | |
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| Coping with Subjectivity | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |