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Themes of the Times for Archaeology (Valuepack item only)
Jill Gardner

ISBN-10: 0205518656
ISBN-13: 9780205518654

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2006
Format: Paper; 80 pp
Published: 12/05/2006


This collection of 43 articles from the New York Times helps to bring the real world into your classroom. These articles have been chosen to allow for lively discussion of issues and controversies in the field of archaeology.

Part I:  What is Archaeology?

 

1.  The Science of Archaeology

Accused Robber Leads Police to Ancient Tomb                                                        

Observations: Stirring Up Soil Trouble                                                                     

A Mystery, Locked in Timeless Embrace                                                                   

Vanished, Under Force of Time and an Inconstant Earth                                        

 

2.  Backgrounds of Archaeology

On Ancient Walls, A New Maya Epoch                                                                     

New Date Offered for Neanderthals’ Last Stand                                                      

Ruined Treasures in Babylon Await an Iraq Without Fighting                                  

                              

3.  The Development of Contemporary Archaeology

Improved Science Puts Modern Humans in Europe Earlier                                      

An Abolitionist Leads the Way in Unearthing of Slaves’ Past                                  

Commentary: From Squeak to Syntax:  Language’s Incremental Evolution                               

 

 

Part II:  Obtaining Information About the Past

 

4.  The Archaeological Record 

The Basics: Safely Stuck in the Muck, for Centuries                                                      

Old Shells Suggest Early Human Adornment                                                            

A Preface to Paris:  New Clues to the Roman Legacy                                              

Long Before Burying Pompeii, Vesuvius Vented Its Wrath                                       

 

5.  Conducting Fieldwork

Family Journeys: Amateur Archaeologists Get the Dirt on the Past                                           

In Cemeteries, Quest for City’s Distant Past                                                            

Archaeologists Unearth a War Zone 5,500 Years Old                                               

 

6.  Classification and Analysis of Artifacts

Book Buried in Irish Bog is Called a Major Find                                                      

Earliest Known Maya Painting Found                                                                      

Valley of the Kings Journal: Guardian of Egypt’s Past                                            

            Preserves a Moment of Mystery                                            

 

7.  Determining Time

Rolling Back Time:  New Evidence Spurs Fresh Thinking on Ancient Civilizations

Camps on Cyprus May Have Belonged to Earliest Open-Water Seafarers               

In a Ruined Copper Works, Evidence That Bolsters a Doubted Biblical                   

 

 

8.  Bioarchaeology:  Human Remains

On the Origins of the Dentist (With a Stone Age Drill)                                             

At Burial Site, Teeth Tell Tale of Slavery                                                                  

Connections: Protection for Indian Patrimony That Leads to a Paradox                

 

 

Part III:  Interpreting the Past

 

 

9.  Environment and Adaptation

In the Desert, Ancient Signs                                                                                       

Under an 1815 Volcano Eruption, Remains of a “Long Kingdom                           

Evidence Found for Canals That Watered Ancient Peru                                          

 

10.  Understanding Past Settlement and Subsistence

On This Old McDonald’s Farm, A First Hint of Agriculture:  Figs                          

A New Look at the Old West                                                                                     

Easter Island Update                                                                                                 

 

11.  Interpreting Past Cultural Systems

The Saturday Profile: Great Pyramid as Cuckoo Clock?                                          

            It Might Not Be Crazy                                    

Archaeologists Challenge Link Between Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Sect           

A Peruvian Woman of A.D. 450 Seems to Have Had Two Careers     

                       

12.  Understanding Culture Change (no appropriate articles found)

 

 

Part IV:  Applied Archaeology

 

 

13.  Cultural Resource Management and Public Archaeology

Subway Project Runs Into One More Wall (Just Don’t Call It an Obstacle)             

Montevideo Journal: A Swastika, 60 Years Submerged, Still Inflames Debate                            

Must Looted Relics Be Ignored?                                                                                

 

14.  Archaeology in the Real World

Antiquities in Office?  Not While King Tut Rules Chicago                                        

New Concern Over Fate of Iraqi Antiquities                                                            

Scientist at Work–Shannon Lee Dawdy; Archaeologist in New Orleans                 

            Finds a Way to Help the Living

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