Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Engaging Archaeology: An Introduction and a Guide
Introduction
Archaeological Practice
Finding and Filling a Gap
A Guide to Engaging Archaeological Research
Conclusion
References
Part I Landscapes, Settlements, and Regions
Chapter 2 Climbing Hillforts and Thinking about Warfare in the Pre-Columbian Andes
The Hillfort Project: Version One
In the Field
Theory and Interpretation
The Hillfort Project: Version Two
Theory and Interpretation: Under the Hood
Looking Back
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 3 Losing Control in the American Southwest: Collaborative Archaeology in the Service of Descendant Communities
Introduction: The Meeting
The Setting: The Valles Caldera/Wavema
Finding the Right Data
Methods
Results
Reflections and Lessons Learned
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 4 Getting It Wrong for All the Right Reasons: Developing an Approach to Systematic Settlement Survey for Viking Age Iceland
The Idea: The Easy Part
The Data: The Hard Part
The Grant: The Best One Might Be a Rejected One
The Scale: Right Methods, Wrong Organization
The Middle Range: Incomplete Data, Incomplete Theory
The Conclusion: The Right Way To Be Wrong
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 5 Archaeological Projects in India: Decolonizing Archaeological Research, Assessing Success, and Valuing Failure
Retrospective Origins
Setting Up the Survey: The Ganeshwar Jodhpura Cultural Complex (GJCC) Survey
Decolonizing Archaeological Survey Methods: The GJCC 2003 Survey
A Brief Note on the GJCC Survey Results
Assessing Success and Valuing Failure
Drinking Tea
Concluding Thoughts
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 6 Lifeways of the First Australians: Regional Archaeology in the Remote North of Australia
Introduction
The Project
Approach
The Excavations
Interpreting the Chronological Sequence
The Technology
Discussion
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 7 The Kuril Biocomplexity Project: Anatomy of an Interdisciplinary Research Program in the North Pacific
Introduction
Biographical Account
Methods
Theory
Results
Reflections
Lessons Learned
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 8 Listen for the Echo of Drums Across the Water: Rock Art Sites as Engaged Community Research in Ontario, Canada
Prologue
The Questions of Rock Art
Images and the Experience and Meaning of Place
The Social Landscape of a Sacred World
Speaking to Strangers
Maps and the Meaning of Locative Experience
Epilogue
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 9 The Heart of Lightness: Doing Archaeology in the Brazilian Central Amazon
Doing Archaeology in the Amazon in the Early 1990s
The Central Amazon Project
The First Field School Years (1999–2005)
The Pipeline Years (2005–2009)
Reflections and Lessons Learned
Paired Reading
References
Part II Sites, Households, and Communities
Chapter 10 Household Archaeology at the Community Scale?: Refining Research Design in a Complex Polynesian Chiefdom
Introduction
Project Management for Multi‐Year International Collaborative Research
Research Questions and Theoretical Framework
Linking Arguments: Material Correlates of House Societies
Shifting the Research Design and Sampling Protocols
Project Results: Successes and a Few Failures
Final Commentary
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 11 Research Spaces from Borderland Places – Late Woodland Archaeology in Southern Ontario
Introduction
Finding a Space for Research
Making that Research Space
Research Spaces in Borderland Places
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 12 Ethnoarchaeology of Pottery in Tigray, Ethiopia: Engaging with Marginalized People
Starting Out: Lessons in Patience
The Tigray Pottery Project
The Path to the Potters
Theory
Types of Data
Reflections
Lessons Learned
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 13 Integrating Paleoethnobotany in Investigations of Spanish: Colonialism in the American Southwest
Introduction
My Dissertation
My Current Research
Lessons Learned
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 14 Framing Local History with Global Archaeological Lenses in Osun Grove, Nigeria
Short Biographical Account
Project Source
Theoretical Framework
Methods
Nature of Data
Reflections
Lessons Learned
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 15 Rooting in New England: Archaeologies of Colonialism, Community, and Collaboration
Trying to Root in New England
Project Implementation
Making Sense of Things
Reflections
Lessons Learned
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 16 Accidentally Digging Central America’s Earliest Village
Getting to Puerto Escondido: How Research and Researchers Develop
The Lower Ulua Valley Project
Puerto Escondido: Pursuing the Classic House Compound
Unexpected Finds and Modified Research Goals
Puerto Escondido: Understanding Everyday Life in a Cosmopolitan Village
Reflections and Lessons Learned
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 17 Slouching Towards Theory: Implementing Bioarchaeological Research at Petra, Jordan
Short Biographical Account
Source of Project
Theoretical Framework
Methods
Nature of Data
Reflections
Lessons Learned
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 18 In Archaeology, “You Get What You Get,” and Most of the Time What You Get Is Unexpected: Investigating Paleoindians in Western North America
Introduction
Exploring Bonneville Estates Rockshelter
Theoretical Perspective
Methods
Results
Reflections
Lessons Learned
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 19 Archaeologies of a Medieval Irish Castle: Thinking about Trim
Introduction
Asking Questions: Trim Castle as a Research Project
Viewing Trim Castle Through Three Lenses: History, Archaeology, Scholarship
Question 1: What is the Sequence at Trim Castle?
Question 2: How Did Trim Castle “Work”?
Final Reflections
Paired Reading
References
Part III Materials, Collections, and Analyses
Chapter 20 Dr. Stage-Love, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Dissertation on Race, Pipes, and Classification in the Chesapeake
Introduction: The Best Eight Years of Your Life
Inspiration
Observation
Explanation
Integration
Reflection
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 21 Lessons Learned in Seriating Maya Pottery
Introduction
Ceramic Seriation: The Basics
Ceramic Seriation in the Mopan Valley
Conclusions
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 22 The Bones from the Other Tell: Zooarchaeology at Çatalhöyük West
Site Background
Aims
Methods
Theoretical Background
Getting Involved
Settling In
Going West
Priorities, Priorities
Branching Out: Collaborations and Specialist Analyses
Regional Meta-Analysis
Looking Back
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 23 Disrupting Fixed Narratives: Researching Colonial Dress and Identity in Museum Collections
Conducting Research on Seventeenth-Century Stone Molds and How Museums Shape Narratives
Some Theory and History Regarding Dress
Button Molds in the Museum, Thoughts on Looking and the Disruption of Narratives
Lessons Learned and Reflections on Museum Collections
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 24 Reverse Engineering in Prehistory: The Neolithic Bow of La Draga, Spain
The Archaeological Site
Research Questions
The Neolithic Bows from La Draga and the Nature of Archery
Replicating Prehistoric Bows
Computer Simulation Experiments
Lessons Learned
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 25 Learning about Learning in Ice Age France through Stone Tools: An Intersectional Feminist Approach without Gender
Biographical Note
The Project
The Data
Reflections and Lessons Learned
Paired Reading
References
Chapter 26 How Not to Write a PhD Thesis: Some Real-Life Lessons from 1990s Michigan and Prehistoric Italy
Introduction
The Backstory
Formulating a Project
The Research Design Encounters Reality
Habits of Mind and Intellectual Footwork
Your Research, Your Self: Intellectual Comfort Zones
Conclusions: Surviving a Research Project, and Maybe Even Winding Up on Top
Paired Reading
References
Index
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