TY - BOOK AU - Peregrine, Peter N AU - Peregrine, Peter N AU - Ember, Carol R AU - Ember, Melvin TI - Archaeology: : Original Readings in Method and Practice SN - 9780130939784 U1 - 930.1028 PER PY - 2002/// CY - Upper Saddle River, New Jersey PB - : Prentice Hall, KW - History KW - History of ancient world (to ca. 499) KW - Archaeology -- Case studies KW - Archaeology -- Research KW - Archaeology -- Methodology N1 - Part I : Archaeological Methods -- 1. The Discovery of Archaeological Sites / Steven Ball -- 2. Dating Archaeological Materials / R. E. Taylor -- 3. The Conservation of Archaeological Materials / Catherine Sease -- 4. Lithic Analysis : Chipped Stone Tools and Waste Flakes in Archaeology / Robert L. Kelly -- 5. Learning About the Past through Archaeological Ceramics : An Example from Vijayanagara, India -- 6. The Analysis of Archaeological Plant Remains / Naomi F. Miller -- 7. The Study of Human Subsistence Behavior Using Faunal Evidence from Archaeological Sites / Richard W. Redding -- 8. Bare Bones Anthropology : The Bioarchaeology of Human Remains / Clark Spencer Larsen -- 9. Dental Deductions : Why and How Anthropologists Study Teeth / John R. Lukacs Part II : Issues and Controversies in Contemporary Archaeology -- 10. Where Our Ancestors Hunters or Scavengers? / John D. Speth -- 11. When and How Did Humans Populate the New World? / William J. Parry -- 12. Were Early Agriculturalists Less Healthy Than Food-Collectors? / Mark Nathan Cohen -- 13. Maya Hieroglyphs : History or Propaganda? / Joyce Marcus -- 14. Gender and Archaeology / Cheryl Claassen -- 15. Prehistoric Social Evolution / Kent V. Flannery -- 16. Ethics in Archaeology / Mark J. Lynott Part III : Archaeological Case Studies -- 17. Cloth Production and Gender Relations in the Inka [Inca] Empire / Cathy Lynne Costin -- 18. Investigating Craft Specialization during the Longshan Period in China / Anne P. Underhill -- 19. Reading the Land : The Archaeology of Settlement and Land Use / Carole L. Crumley -- 20. Archaeological Survey in the Mixtec Sierra / Laura Finsten -- 21. Exploring Aztalan and Its Role in Mississippian Societies / Lynne Goldstein -- 22. Ancestor Veneration in Lowland Maya Society : a Case Study from K'axob, Belize / Patricia McAnany -- 23. De-Mystifying the Past : The Great Zimbabwe, King Solomon's Mines and Other Tales of Old Africa / Joseph O. Vogel Part IV : Archaeologists at Work -- 24. Archaeologist at Work / Richard E. Blanton -- 25. Origins of Social Inequality / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel N2 - The purpose of this collection is to make research more alive for students like you who are just beginning to get to know archaeology. [This text] focuses on the way archaeologists find and recover data from archaeological sites and materials. [The text] tries to convey a feeling for the research process, but ... is focused on a particular issue or controversy rather than a method. [It] illustrate[s] how they applied archaeological methods to particular cases of interest to them - from the origins of complex polities in sub-Saharan Africa to gender roles in the Inka empire. [It also] includes two autobiographical articles. [In the text, the editors] hope you will come to appreciate that archaeology is not just an unemotional set of methods and data, but rather a bunch of hard-working, insightful people who employ those methods to answer particular questions about the past.--Preface ER -