Cover ; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; To the reader; Acknowledgements; 1. What is archaeology? ; The Archaeological Imagination ; Encountering Archaeology ; How did Archaeology Get Started? ; How has Archaeology Changed? ; Two Basic Concepts; Changing Times ; Case Study 1: Changing Anglo-Saxons ; Case Study 2: Tangling With Agricultural Origins ; Following Up ; 2. How many archaeologies are there? ; The Theory Wars ; Culture History ; Anthropological Archaeology ; Processual Archaeology 1962-69
Interpretive Archaeology Evolutionary Archaeology ; The Historical Bridge: Gordon Childe and a Marxist Approach ; An Archaeology of Identity ; Gender and the Feminist Critique ; Indigenous and Community Archaeologies ; Post-Conflict Archaeology and the Destruction of Heritage Assets ; What Underpins the Many Types of Archaeology? ; Where are We Going? ; 3. Basic concepts ; Two Views of the Evidence ; Starting Out with a Research Design ; Archaeological Entities ; Three Analytical Principles ; Science and the Archives of History ; Archives of Deep and Shallow History
Back to the Archaeological Evidence Has Anything Changed? ; 4. People ; Who do We Want to Know About? ; What can we Know? ; How do we Know? ; Who did We Meet? ; 5. Materials and objects ; Materials and the Senses ; Realms, Symbols and Metaphors ; A Philosophy of Things ; Dualisms ; Style ; The Biography of Objects ; The Death of Style? ; 6. Time and space ; Scale ; Contexts and Entities ; Meaning = Message + Context ; Contextual Analysis ; Time ; Space ; Analytical and Interpretive Approaches to Space ; 7. Change and stability ; Questions about Change
Origins and the Big Six Questions The Problem with Origins Research ; Scale and Changes to the System ; Neo-Evolutionary Accounts of Variety and Change ; Mechanisms and Models ; What Makes a Good Explanation in Archaeology ; Grappling with the Big Questions ; 8. Power and identity ; Two Identities ; Habitus: The Identity Within ; Who are you? ; National Identities ; The Future of Archaeology ; References ; Index
