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Archaeology's footprints in the modern world
Title
Archaeology's footprints in the modern world / Michael Brian Schiffer.
ISBN
9781607815334
1607815338
9781607815341
Publication
Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2017]
Physical Description
xxiv, 397 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 03, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Evaluating myths, sagas, and legends
Debunking the "lost races" myth
Did the Norse beat Columbus to the Americas?
King Solomon's mines
Complementing historical evidence
The confederate submarine, H.L. Hunley
The "poor" potter of Yorktown, Virginia
Nuclear archaeology in the Nevada desert
Enhancing cultural tourism and heritage awareness
Mount Vernon and George Washington's whiskey distillery
Kourion, a Roman town in Cyprus
The World Heritage site of Stonehenge
Collaborating with communities
The Levi Jordan plantation project
The Ozette site and the Makah Indian Nation
Thurstan Shaw and Nigeria's enigmatic bronzes
Pursuing an activist agenda
Remembering the Ludlow Massacre
Advocating for homeless people
Promoting the electric car revival
Reviving ancient technologies
Chipped stone scalpels
Raised-field agriculture in the Andes
Ancient pots and modern potters in the American Southwest
Managing cultural resources
Federal agencies and cultural resource management
Tribal archaeology : the Seminole Indians of Florida
Archaeology in the city of Alexandria, Virginia
Participating in judicial and diplomatic processes
California Indians v. United States
Antiquities acts and the looting of the GE Mound
The international antiquities trade
Doing fieldwork in a forensic context
Solving a murder in the Midlands of England
A Nazi-era mass grave in Ukraine
Recovery of missing American military personnel
Expanding the social sciences
The Garbage Project
The "material-culture turn" in the social sciences
Undocumented migrants face the Arizona desert
Contributing to the physical sciences and engineering
The mysterious pigment : Maya blue
Radiocarbon dating
Nuclear waste disposal
Bolstering biological sciences
Origin of the domesticated sunflower
The pygmy rabbit and applied zooarchaeology
Microbiota of the human gut and coprolites
Furnishing tools for environmental sciences
Tree-ring dating and dendroclimatology
Dating Sunset Crater
Mass extinctions of animals : the human role
Revealing our prehistoric past
In the beginning
From foragers to farmers
The urban revolution.
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