Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice - A Glossary for Archaeology: Early Societies and Cultures.


INTRODUCTION
All except page 14.

CHAPTER 1
Thomas Jefferson
James Hutton
Charles Lyell
The Antiquity of Humanity
The Concept of Evolution
The Three Age system
Ethnography and Archaeology
Napolean's military expedition
Austen Henry Layard
Henry Rawlinson
John Lloyd Stephens
Frederick Catherwood
Sir John Marshall
Sir Flinders Petrie
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Dorothy Garrod
Max Uhle
Alfred Kidder
The Ecological Approach
The Rise of Archaeological Science
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
Tatiana Proskouriakoff
Kathleen Kenyon
The Birth of the New Archaeology
BOX - Processual Archaeology: Key Concepts
Who are the Searchers?
The Postprocessual Debate of the 1980s and 1990s
BOX - Interpretive Archaeologies at Catal Huyuk
The Widening Field: Other Voices
SUMMARY

CHAPTER 2
BASIC CATEGORIES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
[If in caps, then all concepts, boxes, etc. under that category]
FORMATION PROCESSES
CULTURAL FORMATION PROCESSES
NATURAL FORMATION PROCESSES
Familiarity with boxes though not details.
PRESERVATION OF ORGANIC MATERIALS: EXTREME CONDITIONS
Familiarity with boxes though not details
SUMMARY

CHAPTER 3
Research design
Formulation
Collecting and recording of evidence
Processing ana analysis
Publication
DISCOVERING ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND FEATURES
All to top of right column p. 85, and then begin at bottom (second column) p. 86 ff.
All boxes - Melos, Aerial Reconnaissance and general familiarity with sampling box as discussed in class.
ASSESSING THE LAYOUT OF SITES AND FEATURES
All as far as, but not including, Subsurface Detection
EXCAVATION

CHAPTER 4
Relative dating
Absolute dating
Measuring time
Stratigraphy
Bone Age
Typological Sequences
Seriation
CLIMATE AND CHRONOLOGY
CALENDARS AND HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGIES
ANNUAL CYCLES: VARVES AND TREE-RINGS
Radiocarbon Dating
WORLD CHRONOLOGY [as a reference for later lectures].

CHAPTER 6
Environmental Archaeology
Ecosystem
Deep-sea cores
BOX - reconstructing climates....
BOX - climatic cycles: el nino
Ancient coastlines, p. 229 - (not including) Raised Beaches....
STUDYING THE LANDSCAPE
Pollen analysis
Phytoliths
Macrobotanical Remains
Microfauna
Macrofauna
Human Modification of the Living Area
Human Exploitation of the wider Enviornment.
BOX - Site catchment analysis
BOX - Mapping the Ancient Environment: Cahokia and GIS
SUMMARY

CHAPTER 7
Introduction on page 269
Macrobotanical Remains
Interpreting the context....
BOX - Paleoethnobotany (for later reference)
Microbotanical Remains
Plant Impressions
Analysis of Plant residues on Artifacts
Strategies of Plant Use; seasonality....
Meals and cookery
Plant evidence from literate societies
BOX - Investigating the Rise of farming.... (for later reference)
Information from Animal Resources - introduction
BOX - Taphonomy
Methods for Proving Human Exploitation of Animals
Investigating Diet - introduction
Analyzing a macrofaunal....
Strategies of Use: Deducing...
BOX - Quantifying animal bones
The question of animal domestication
BOX - Farming Origins: A case study (for later reference)
BOX - Shell Midden Analysis (for later reference)
Tools and Art: Evidence for the Secondary...
Art and Literature
Remains of Individual Meals
Human teeth as evidence for diet
Isotopic Methods: Diet over a lifetime
SUMMARY

Chapter 8
Introduction
Survival of the Evidence
Are they Artifacts at All?
Interpreting the Evidence: the Use of Ethnographic Analogy
UNALTERED MATERIALS: STONE
SYNTHETIC MATERIALS
SUMMARY

CHAPTER 10

Introductory paragraphs
Theory and Method
INVESTIGATING HOW HUMAN SYMBOLIZING FACULTIES EVOLVED.
WORKING WITH SYMBOLS
FROM WRITTEN SOURCES TO COGNITIVE MAP
ESTABLISHING PLACE: THE LOCATION OF MEMORY
MEASURING THE WORLD
PLANNING: MAPS FOR THE FUTURE
SYMBOLS OF ORGANIZATION AND POWER
SYMBOLS FOR THE OTHER WORLD: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF RELIGION (for later reference)
DEPICTION: ART AND REPRESENTATION (for later reference)
Familiarity with all boxes
SUMMARY

CHAPTER 11
p. 421 to mid page 452
BOX - Studying the Origins of NW Populations (for later reference)
SUMMARY