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Digging into Archaeology206
A Note from the Authors206
For Instructors Using This Text206
Introduction to Anthropological Archaeology206
Activity 1.1 What Is an Archaeologist?206
Activity 1.2 Scientific Method and Article Analysis206
Part 1. Identify the Scientific Method206
Part 2. Annotated Bibliography206
Part 3. The Literature Review206
History (up until the 1960s)206
Activity 2.1 Paradigm Shifts, Part 1206
History (the 1960s and beyond)206
Activity 3.1 Paradigm Shifts, Part 2206
Activity 3.2 Get a Perspective206
Activity 3.3 Research of “Middle Range:” Additional Processual Approaches206
The Archaeological Record and Site Formation Processes206
Activity 4.1 Artifacts: What Are They Good For?206
Artifact Preservation206
Activity 5.1 Formation Processes: What Survives?206
Part 1. Preservation by Matrix and Climate206
Part 2. Card Activity206
How to Find Archaeological Sites206
Activity 6.1 Survey Techniques206
Part 1. Using a Compass206
Part 2. Calculating Stride Length206
Part 3. Applying Compass Skills and Stride Length206
Activity 6.2 Campus Site Survey206
Part 1: General Site Survey206
Part 2. Surveying, Mapping, and Surface Collection206
Activity 6.3 Sampling the Past206
Simple Random Sample206
Stratified Random Sample206
Systematic Sample206
Stratified Unaligned Systematic Sample206
Activity 6.4 Ground Coverage Survey206
Part 1. Map Reading206
Part 2. Survey Planning206
Part 3. Sampling206
Part 4. Analysis206
Activity 6.5 Garbology Survey206
Excavation206
Activity 7.1 Excavating the Land of Candy: A Cultural Resource Management Exercise206
Part 1: Recording Instructions206
Groundstones:206
Lithics:206
Ceramics:206
Fauna:206
Part 2: Completion of the Resource Record Form206
Dating Methods – Relative and Absolute Dating206
Relative Dating206
Absolute Dating206
Activity 8.1 Stratigraphic Dating and the Harris Matrix206
Part 1. Stratigraphic Dating: A Café Scene206
Part 2. The Harris Matrix206
Part 3. Date Before Which and Date After Which206
Activity 8.2 Stylistic and Frequency Seriation206
Part 1. Stylistic Seriation of Chevy Automobiles206
Part 2. Frequency Seriation of New England Headstone Designs206
Activity 8.3 Pottery Seriation206
Activity 8.4 Dating Conversions206
Artifact Analysis206
Activity 9.1 Artifact Classification206
Activity 9.2 Three Classifications206
Reconstructing Environments and Subsistence Patterns206
Activity 10.1 Reconstructing Paleoenvironments206
Activity 10.2 Reconstructing Diet and Subsistence: Comparing Foraging and Farming206
Activity 10.3 Subsistence Signatures206
Archaeological signatures of hunter-gatherers206
Archaeological signatures of early agriculturalists206
Archaeological signatures that are ambiguous with respect to subsistence strategies206
Social Archaeology206
Political Organization206
Social Stratification206
Methods of Analyzing Social Stratification206
Other Types of Social Analysis206
Activity 11.1 Analyzing Cars: Social Archaeology206
Activity 11.2 Classroom Garbology206
Activity 11.3 Garbology of Lancaster, California206
Activity 11.4 Someone Else’s Trash206
Part 1: Assignment Description and General Instructions206
Part 2: Interpretation of the Data206
Part 3: Complete a Written Interpretation of the Artifacts206
Bioarchaeology206
Activity 12.1 Bioarchaeology: Burial Practices206
Activity 12.2 Bioarch in the News206
Archaeological Interpretation and Application of Theory206
Activity 13.1 Studying Patterns in Human Cultural Behavior206
Activity 13.3 Excavation and Interpretation of Sites at Huaca de la Luna, Peru206
Historical Archaeology206
New Frontiers in Archaeology206
Activity 15.1 GlobalXplorer206
Legal and Ethical Considerations in Archaeology206
Activity 16.1 Ethics in Archaeology: Create Your Own Ethics Statement206
Activity 16.2 Careers in Archaeology: Options and Opportunities206
Appendix 1. Formation Processes: What Survives? Cards (5.1)206
Appendix 2. Sampling the Past (6.3) Site Map Key206
Appendix 3. Ground Coverage Survey Map (6.4)206
Appendix 4. DPR Forms (7.1)206
DPR 523A: California Department of Parks and Recreation Primary Record Form206
DPR 523C: California Department of Parks and Recreation Archaeological Site Record Form206
DPR 523J: California Department of Parks and Recreation Location Map Form206
DPR 523K: California Department of Parks and Recreation Sketch Map Form206
Resource Attribute Codes206
Appendix 5. Excavation and Interpretation of Sites at Huaca de la Luna, Peru (13.3)206
Excavation Data Set 1: Urban Zone – Complex 4206
Excavation Data Set 2: Urban Zone – Complex 27206
Excavation Data Set 3: Urban Zone – Complex 35206
Excavation Data Set 4: Murals206
Excavation Data Set 5: Plaza 3b206
About the Authors206
About the Contributors206
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