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Anthropology 1400: Digging the Past
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Digging into Archaeology

A Brief OER Introduction to Archaeology with Activities

Amanda Wolcott Paskey and AnnMarie Beasley Cisneros

From CUNY Manifold Edition, 2022. Use the links below or the Manifold Table of Contents on the top left of the book to navigate. If you are using the links below and they do not bring you to exact desired section, try refreshing your page in the Manifold book.

Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction to Anthropological Archaeology
  2. History (up until the 1960s)
  3. History (the 1960s and beyond)
  4. The Archaeological Record and Site Formation Processes
  5. Artifact Preservation
  6. How to Find Archaeological Sites
  7. Excavation
  8. Dating Methods – Relative and Absolute Dating
  9. Artifact Analysis
  10. Reconstructing Environments and Subsistence Patterns
  11. Social Archaeology
  12. Bioarchaeology
  13. Archaeological Interpretation and Application of Theory
  14. Historical Archaeology
  15. New Frontiers in Archaeology
  16. Legal and Ethical Considerations in Archaeology

Appendix 1. Formation Processes: What Survives? Cards (5.1)

Appendix 2. Sampling the Past (6.3) Site Map Key

Appendix 3. Ground Coverage Survey Map (6.4)

Appendix 4. DPR Forms (7.1)

Appendix 5. Excavation and Interpretation of Sites at Huaca de la Luna, Peru (13.3)

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