Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-374) 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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