Ebook: Engaging Archaeology: 25 Case Studies in Research Practice

Engaging archaeology : an introduction and a guide / Stephen W. Silliman -- [1] Landscapes, settlements, and regions -- Climbing hillforts and thinking about warfare in the pre-Columbian Andes / Elizabeth Arkush -- Losing control in the American Southwest : collaborative archaeology in the service of descendant communities / Matthew Liebmann -- Getting it wrong for all the right reasons : developing an approach to systematic settlement survey for Viking Age Iceland / John M. Steinberg, Douglas J. Bolender, and Brian N. Damiatta -- Archaeological projects in India : decolonizing archaeological research, assessing success, and valuing failure / Uzma Z. Rizvi -- Lifeways of the first Australians : regional archaeology in the remote north of Australia / Jane Balme -- The Kuril Biocomplexity Project : anatomy of an interdisciplinary research program in the North Pacific / Ben Fitzhugh -- Listen for the echo of drums across the water : rock art sites as engaged community research in Ontario, Canada / John William Norder -- The heart of lightness : doing archaeology in the Brazilian Central Amazon / Eduardo G. Neves -- [2] Sites, households, and communities -- Household archaeology at the community scale? : refining research design in a complex Polynesian chiefdom / Jennifer G. Kahn -- Research spaces from borderland places : Late Woodland archaeology in southern Ontario / Neal Ferris -- Ethnoarchaeology of pottery in Tigray, Ethiopia : engaging with marginalized people / Diane Lyons -- Integrating paleoethnobotany in investigations of Spanish colonialism in the American Southwest / Heather B. Trigg -- Framing local history with global archaeological lenses in Osun Grove, Nigeria / Akinwumi Ogundiran -- Rooting in New England : archaeologies of colonialism, community, and collaboration / Stephen W. Silliman -- Accidentally digging Central America's earliest village / Rosemary A. Joyce -- Slouching towards theory : implementing bioarchaeological research at Petra, Jordan / Megan A. Perry -- In archaeology, "You get what you get," and most of the time what you get is unexpected : investigating Paleoindians in western North America / Ted Goebel -- Archaeologies of a medieval Irish castle : thinking about trim / Tadhg O'Keeffe -- [3] Materials, collections, and analyses -- Dr. Stage-Love, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love my dissertation on clay pipes / Anna Agbe-Davies -- Lessons learned in seriating Maya pottery / Lisa Lecount -- The bones from the other tell : zooarchaeology at Çatal Hüyük West / David Orton -- Disrupting fixed narratives : researching colonial dress and identity in museum collections / Diana DiPaolo Loren -- Reverse engineering in prehistory : the Neolithic bow of La Draga, Spain / Juan A. Barceló, Vera Moitinho de Almeida, Oriol López, Antoni Palomo, and Xavier Terradas -- Learning about learning in Ice Age France through stone tools : an intersectional feminist approach without gender / Kathleen Sterling -- How not to write a PhD thesis : some real-life lessons from 1990s Michigan and prehistoric Italy / John Robb.;Bringing together 25 case studies from archaeological projects worldwide, Engaging Archaeology candidly explores personal experiences, successes, challenges, and even frustrations from established and senior archaeologists who share invaluable practical advice for students and early-career professionals engaged in planning and carrying out their own archaeological research. With engaging chapters, such as 'How Not to Write a PhD Thesis on Neolithic Italy' and 'Accidentally Digging Central America's Earliest Village', readers are transported to the desks, digs, and data-labs of the authors, learning the skills, tricks of the trade, and potential pit-falls of archaeological fieldwork and collections research. Case studies collectively span many regions, time periods, issues, methods, and materials. From the pre-Columbian Andes to Viking Age Iceland, North America to the Middle East, Medieval Ireland to remote north Australia, and Europe to Africa and India, Engaging Archaeology is packed with rich, first-hand source material. Unique and thoughtful, Stephen W. Silliman's guide is an essential course book for early-stage researchers, advanced undergraduates, and new graduate students, as well as those teaching and mentoring. It will also be insightful and enjoyable reading for veteran archaeologists.