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Methods in Archaeology

Colin Renfrew. METHODS IN ARCHEOLOGY COLIN RENFREW, PAUL BAHN, 2010. http://archive.org/details/METHODSINARCHEOLOGYCOLINRENFREWPAULBAHN.

The above textbook is available for download here, but as this will take a long time to load, you may prefer to go chapter by chapter.

Preface and Introduction from METHODS IN ARCHEOLOGY

Chapter 1: The Searchers: The History of Archaeology

Chapter 2: What is Left? The Variety of the Evidence

Chapter 3: Where? Survey and Excavation of Sites and Features

Chapter 4: When? Dating Methods and Chronology

Chapter 5: How Were Societies Organized? Social Archaeology

Chapter 6: What was the Environment? Environmental Archaeology

Chapter 7: What Did They Eat? Subsistence and Diet

Chapter 8: How Did They Make and Use Tools? Technology

Chapter 9: What Contact Did They Have? Trade and Exchange

Chapter 10: What Did They Think: Cognitive Archaeology, Art, and Religion

Chapter 11: Who Were They? What Were They Like? The Archaeology of People

Chapter 12: Why Did Things Change? Explanation in Archaeology

Chapter 13: Archaeology in Action: Four Case Studies

Chapter 14: Whose Past? Archaeology and the Public

Glossary from METHODS IN ARCHEOLOGY

Index from METHODS IN ARCHEOLOGY

Notes and Bibliography from METHODS IN ARCHEOLOGY 

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