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Learning Archaeology is designed for undergraduate archaeology students, helping them develop interpretive skills in the classroom through problem-oriented, active learning exercises.
Sommario
List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Preface for Instructors; Chapter 1: Learning Archaeology: Introduction to the Book;
Part 1: Excavation: Chapter 2: Laying out the Groundwork: The Excavations at Ali Kosh, Iran; Chapter 3: Uncovering Home: Excavations at Kharaneh IV, Jordan; Chapter 4: Archaeology of the Built Environment: Space Syntax Analysis; Chapter 5: Passamaquoddy Archaeology at WWII Prisoner of War Camp in Maine;
Part 2: Analytical Methods: Chapter 6: Ts'msyen Fisheries Resource Management through Archaeology; Chapter 7: Interpreting the Stone Tools and Animal Bones from the Lower Paleolithic Site of Holon, Israel; Chapter 8: Rice or Nuts? Exploring Food Strategies of the Early Neolithic Communities in the Lower Yangtze Region Through Archaeobotanical Analysis; Chapter 9: Craft Specialization: An Indication of Early Complex Societies; Chapter 10: Using Geoarchaeology to Investigate Socio-Environmental Processes at Bronze Age Palaikastro, Crete, Greece; Chapter 11: Habitual Physical Activities of Ancestral KhoeSan Herders and Foragers in Holocene Southern Africa; Chapter 12: Shale Personal Ornaments from the Mesolithic Site of Star Carr (UK); Experimental Microwear and Biographical Approaches;
Part 3: Archaeology of the Contemporary World: Chapter 13: The Materiality of Black Memory; Chapter 14: Learning Archaeology through Graffiti; Chapter 15: Reading Sherds: Pottery-Making and Archaeology from a Wädat Perspective; Glossary; Index.
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Michael Chazan is a Paleolithic Archaeologist and a Professor at the University of Toronto.
Danielle A. Macdonald is an anthropological archaeologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology & Sociology at the University of Tulsa.
A. Katherine Patton is an assistant professor, teaching stream in the Anthropology Department at the University of Toronto.
