1st Edition
Learning Archaeology A Problem-Based Approach
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Preface for Instructors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Learning Archaeology: Introduction to the Book
A. Katherine Patton, Danielle A. Macdonald, and Michael Chazan
Part 1: Excavation
Chapter 2: Laying Out the Groundwork: The Excavations at Ali Kosh, Iran
Michael Chazan, Danielle A. Macdonald, and A. Katherine Patton
Chapter 3: Uncovering Home: Excavations at Kharaneh IV, Jordan
Danielle A. Macdonald, Ahmad Thaher, and Lisa A. Maher
Chapter 4: Archaeology of the Built Environment: Space Syntax Analysis
Giles Spence Morrow
Chapter 5: Passamaquoddy Archaeology at a WWII Prisoner of War Camp in Maine
Bonnie Newsom
Part 2: Analytical Methods
Chapter 6: Ts’msyen Fisheries Resource Management through Archaeology
A. Katherine Patton, Hudson Kunicky, and Andrew Martindale
Chapter 7: Interpreting the Stone Tools and Animal Bones from the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Holon, Israel
Michael Chazan and Liora Kolska Horwitz
Chapter 8: Rice or Nuts? Exploring Food Strategies of the Early Neolithic Communities in the Lower Yangtze Region through Archaeobotanical Analysis
Jiajing Wang
Chapter 9: Craft Specialization: An Indication of Early Complex Societies
Elizabeth Peterson, Laurie Nixon-Darcus, and Catherine D’Andrea
Chapter 10: Using Geoarchaeology to Investigate Socio-Environmental Processes at Bronze Age Palaikastro, Crete, Greece
Rachel Kulick
Chapter 11: Habitual Physical Activities of Ancestral KhoeSan Herders and Foragers in Holocene Southern Africa
Michelle E. Cameron
Chapter 12: Shale Personal Ornaments from the Mesolithic Site of Star Carr (UK): Experimental, Microwear, and Biographical Approaches
Andy Needham and Stephanie Piper
Part 3: Archaeology of the Contemporary World
Chapter 13: The Materiality of Black Memory
Nkem Ike
Chapter 14: Learning Archaeology through Graffiti
Katina Lillios
Chapter 15: Reading Sherds: Pottery Making and Archaeology from a Waⁿdat Perspective
Steven Dorland and Richard Zane Smith (Sǫhahiyǫh)
Glossary
Index
Biography
A. Katherine Patton is Associate Professor, teaching stream in the Anthropology Department at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Danielle A. Macdonald is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
Michael Chazan is a Professor in the Departments of Earth Science and Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
