A companion to archaeology

List of Figures. List of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction (John Bintliff). Part I: Thinking About Archaeology. 1. Analytical Archaeology (Stephen Shennan). 2. The Great Dark Book: Archaeology, Experience and Interpretation (Julian Thomas). Part II: Current Themes and Novel Departures. 3. Archaeology and the Genetic Revolution (Martin Jones). 4. Archaeology and Language: Methods and Issues (Roger Blench). 5. The Archaeology of Gender (M. L. S. Sorensen). 6. Archaeology and Social Theory (Matthew Johnson). 7. Materiality, Space, Time and Outcome (Roland Fletcher). 8. Archaeological Perspectives on Local Communities (Fokke Gerritsen). 9. Archaeology and Technology (Kevin Greene). 10. Time, Structure and Agency: the Annales, Emergent Complexity and Archaeology (John Bintliff). Part III: Major Traditions in Archaeology in Contemporary Perspective. 11. Archaeological Dating (J.A.J. Gowlett). 12. Chronology of the Human Narrative (J.A.J. Gowlett). 13. Archaeology and Indigenous Peoples: Attitudes Towards Power in Ancient Oaxaca (Maarten Jansen). 14. Classical Archaeology (Ian Morris). 15. The Archaeologies of Recent History: Historical, Post-Medieval, and Modern World (Charles E. Orser, Jr.). 16. Animal Bones and Plant Remains (Peter Rowley-Conwy). 17. Ecology in Archaeology: From Cognition to Action (Fekri A. Hassan). 18. The Archaeology of Landscape (T.J. Wilkinson). 19. Archaeology and Art (Raymond Corbey, Robert Layton and Jeremy Tanner). 20. Putting Infinity up on Trial: A Consideration of the Role of Scientific Thinking in Future Archaeologies (A.M. Pollard). 21. Experiencing Archaeological Fieldwork (John Bintliff). Part IV: Archaeology and the Public. 22. Public archaeology: A European Perspective (Timothy Darvill). 23. Persistent Dilemmas in American Cultural Resource Management (Joseph A. Tainter). 24. Museum Studies (Linda Ellis). 25. Relating Anthropology and Archaeology (Michael Rowlands). 26. Archaeology and Politics (Michael Shanks). 27. Archaeology and Green Issues (Martin Bell). Index.