Preface. 1. What Is Archaeology. 2. Anthropology, Science, and the Humanities. 3. Chronology Building: How to Get a Date. 4.

Chronology Building: Low-Level Archaeological Theory in Action. 5. Fieldwork: Why Archaeologists Walk Straight Lines and Dig Square Holes. 6. Middle-Range Research: Ethnoarchaeology and Experimental Archaeology. 7. How People Get Their Groceries: Reconstructing Human Subsistence and Ecology. 8.

Some Bioarchaeological Perspectives on the Past. 9. Understanding Social Systems of the Past. 10. General Theory in Archaeology: Some Neo-Evolutionary Approaches. 11. An Archaeology of the Human Mind. 12.

Archaeology in the Twenty-first Century. Bibliographic Essay. Credits. References Cited. Index.