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Table of Contents:
In this section: 1)  Brief Table of Content 2)  Full Table of Contents BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS   PART I: BACKGROUND TO ARCHAEOLOGY Chapter 1: Introducing Archaeology Chapter 2: The Beginnings of Scientific Archaeology: Sixth Century B.C. to the 1950s Chapter 3: The Many-Voiced Past: Archaeological Thought from the 1950s to Now PART II: THE BASICS   Chapter 4: Matrix and Preservation   Chapter 5: Doing Archaeological Research   Chapter 6: Culture, Data, and Context Chapter 7: How Old Is It?   PART III: RECOVERING THE DATA Chapter 8: They Sought It Here, They Sought It There: Finding the Past Chapter 9: How to Excavate PART IV: ANALYZING THE PAST: ARTIFACTS AND TECHNOLOGY   Chapter 10: Classifying Artifacts Chapter 11: Technologies of the Ancients PART V: STUDYING ENVIRONMENTS AND PEOPLE   Chapter 12: Ancient Environments Chapter 13: What Did We Eat? Chapter 14: The Living Past Chapter 15: Landscape and Settlement Chapter 16: Interactions: People of the Past Chapter 17: Archaeology and the Intangible   PART VI: MANAGING THE PAST   Chapter 18: Cultural Resource Management and Public Archaeology Chapter 19: Archaeology and Contemporary Society PART VII: CAREERS AND RESOURCES Chapter 20: So You Want to Become an Archaeologist?    FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS   PART I: BACKGROUND TO ARCHAEOLOGY Chapter 1: Introducing Archaeology The First Archaeologist What is Archaeology Today? Who are the Archaeologists? Why Study Archaeology? Who Owns the Past? Is Archaeology in Crisis? What are the Goals of Archaeology?   Chapter 2: The Beginnings of Scientific Archaeology: Sixth Century B.C. to the 1950s Beginnings Scriptures and Fossils The Antiquity of Humankind The Three-Age System Human Progress Historical Particularism Culture History Old World Archaeology American Archaeology The Americas: Chronology and Time Scales Cultural Ecology   Chapter 3: The Many-Voiced Past: Archaeological Thought from the 1950s to Now Culture History The “New” Archaeology Processual Archaeology Postprocessual Archaeology Some Schools of Archaeological Theory Where is Archaeological Theory Headed?   PART II: THE BASICS  Chapter 4: Matrix and Preservation   Archaeological Data Site-Formation Processes Discovery: Eruption at Akrotiri, Greece, c. 1688 B.C. The Matrix: Preservation and Human Activity Preservation Conditions: Inorganic and Organic Materials Organic Materials and the Archaeological Record   Chapter 5: Doing Archaeological Research   The Archaeologist’s Skills Archaeology and Science The Process of Archaeological Research      Chapter 6: Culture, Data, and Context The Concept of Culture The Nature of Culture Models of Culture The Archaeological Record Matrix and Provenance Archaeological Context Artifacts, Subassemblages, and Assemblages Archaeological Sites Cultures, Areas, Regions, and Settlement Patterns   Chapter 7: How Old Is It?   Cyclical and Linear Time Relative Chronology Absolute Chronology   PART III: RECOVERING THE DATA  Chapter 8: They Sought It Here, They Sought It There: Finding the Past  Finding Archaeological Sites Approaches to Archaeological Survey Remote Sensing Recording Archaeological Sites Subsurface Detection   Chapter 9: How to Excavate Directors, Teams, and Staffs Permits Planning an Excavation Tools of the Trade The Process of Archaeological Excavation Special Excavation Issues   PART IV: ANALYZING THE PAST: ARTIFACTS AND TECHNOLOGY  Chapter 10: Classifying Artifacts Classification Processes of Archaeological Classification Assemblages and Patterns What Do Assemblages and Patterns Mean?   Chapter 11: Technologies of the Ancients Stone Clay (Ceramics) Metals and Metallurgy Bone Wood Basketry and Textiles   PART V: STUDYING ENVIRONMENTS AND PEOPLE Chapter 12: Ancient Environments Long-Term and Short-Term Climatic Change Geoarchaeology Long-Term Climatic Change: The Great Ice Age Holocene Environmental Reconstruction Reconstructing Humanly-Caused Environmental Change   Chapter 13: What Did We Eat? Studying Subsistence  nimal Bones (Zooarchaeology) Plant Remains Birds, Fish, and Mollusks  Subsistence Data from Rock Art  Ancient Diet      Chapter 14: The Living Past Early Comparisons Analogy Middle-Range Theory Ethnoarchaeology Experimental Archaeology   Chapter 15: Landscape and Settlement Settlement Archaeology and Settlement Patterns Households Communities Studying Large Communities Studying Distributions of Communities Case Studies of Settlement Distribution The Archaeology of Landscape   Chapter 16: Interactions: People of the Past An Individual: Ötzi the Ice Man Bioarchaeology: What Human Bones Tell Us Genetics and DNA Groups: Ancient Social Organization Gender: (Beyond) Men and Women Engendered Research Ethnicity and Inequality Exchange and Trade   Chapter 17: Archaeology and the Intangible   A Framework of Common Belief Cognitive Archaeology Ethnographic Analogy and Rock Art The Archaeology of Death Artifacts: The Importance of Context Artifacts and Art Styles Sacred Places Astroarchaeology and Stonehenge Southwestern Astronomy and Chaco Canyon   PART VI: MANAGING THE PAST Chapter 18: Cultural Resource Management and Public Archaeology Legislating the Past What Is Protected? Phases of Site Management Management versus Research Strategies of CRM Research Management Challenges Public Involvement and Public Archaeology Native Americans and CRM Cultural Resource Management around the World   Chapter 19: Archaeology and Contemporary Society Archaeology and Human Diversity Archaeology and Human History Archaeological Tourism Archaeology and Subsistence Agriculture Garbology Archaeology and the Environment Heritage and Stewardship   PART VII: CAREERS AND RESOURCES Chapter 20: So You Want to Become an Archaeologist? Archaeology as a Profession Academic Qualifications: Graduate School Thoughts on Not Becoming a Professional Archaeologist Our Responsibilities to the Past

About the Author :
Brian Fagan is one of the world’s leading archaeological writers and an internationally recognized authority on human prehistory. He studied archaeology and anthropology at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, and then spent seven years in sub-Saharan Africa working in museums and in monuments conservation and excavating early farming sites in Zambia and East Africa. He was one of the pioneers of multidisciplinary African history in the 1960s. From 1967 to 2003, he was professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he specialized in lecturing and writing about archaeology to wide audiences. He is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology. Brian Fagan has written several best-selling textbooks and has published several scholarly monographs on African archaeology and numerous specialized articles in national and international journals. An expert on multimedia teaching, he has received the Society for American Archaeology’s first Public Education Award for his tireless efforts on behalf of archaeology and education Brian Fagan’s other interests include bicycling, sailing, kayaking, and good food. He is married and lives in Santa Barbara with his wife and daughter, three cats (who supervise his writing), and last but not least, a minimum of seven rabbits.   Nadia Durrani is an archaeologist and writer. For much of the past decade she was the editor of Britain’s best-selling archaeology magazine, Current World Archaeology, becoming an independent editor after the arrival of her son in 2010. She has authored and edited many hundreds of articles on archaeology from every corner of the globe, contributed to dozens of books, and written two. Throughout her career she has travelled widely --from Peru to Pakistan--to report on the latest archaeological discoveries; worked as a specialist lecturer on archaeological tours to countries including Yemen and Jordan; and contributed to a range of television documentaries. Her specialist area is Arabian archaeology and, following a degree in archaeology and anthropology from Cambridge University, she took a PhD in South West Arabian archaeology from University College, London (2001). Other research interests include the archaeology of the First World War and she is a founding member of the Great War Archaeology Group. A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, she lives in London with her husband, Matthew, and son Jacob ‘Caractacus’ Hillier.  

Review :
“The organizational scheme of the book is sound, logical, and well done; this is clearly a book that will serve in any introductory archaeology course. The author’s style is comfortable and easy to understand.”   - James L. Fitzsimmons, Middlebury College   “. . . engaging without pandering or writing down to or patronizing the student. The chapter outlines, summaries, and study questions seem spot on.”   - Mary C. Beaudry, Boston University   “Thorough and comprehensive and works well as a basic introductory textbook for beginners in archaeology.”   - Curtis Runnels, Boston University