Archaeology's footprints in the modern world / Michael Brian Schiffer.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: aSchiffer, Michael B. (Michael Brian), 1947- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Archaeology > History.
Archaeology and history.
Social archaeology.
Archaeology.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxiv, 397 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.