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by Marilyn Johnson


  , In the Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeology (Boston: Little, Brown, 1972).

  Felch, Jason, and Ralph Frammolino, Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2011).

  Feldman, Mark, Archaeology for Everyone (New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Books, 1977).

  Flatman, Joe, Becoming an Archaeologist: A Guide to Professional Pathways (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2011).

  Geier, Clarence R., Jr., ed., Look to the Earth: Historical Archaeology and the American Civil War (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996).

  Grann, David, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (New York: Doubleday, 2008).

  Hallote, Rachel S., Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World: How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001).

  Herridge, Victoria, “TrowelBlazers: In Search of the Female Indiana Jones,” CNN.com, June 20, 2013 (and TrowelBlazers blog).

  Jansen, Gemma C. M., Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, and Eric M. Moormann, eds., Roman Toilets: Their Archaeology and Cultural History (Leuven: Peeters, 2011 supplement ed.).

  Kansa, Eric C., Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Ethan Watrall, eds., Archaeology 2.0: New Tools for Communication and Collaboration (Los Angeles: UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2011).

  Leakey, Mary D., Disclosing the Past: An Autobiography (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986).

  Lenik, Edward J., Rocks, Riddles and Mysteries: Folk Art, Inscriptions and Other Stories in Stone (Franklin: American History Press, 2011).

  Mallowan, Agatha Christie, Come, Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir (New York: William Morrow, 1946).

  Mann, Charles C. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (New York: Vintage, 2012).

  MacManamon, Francis P., and Alf Hatton, eds., Cultural Resource Management in Contemporary Society: Perspectives on Managing and Presenting the Past (New York: Routledge, 2000).

  Sebastian, Lynne, and William D. Lipe, Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management (Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 2009).

  Thomas, David Hurst, Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity (New York: Basic Books, 2001).

  Wilson, Lanford, Lanford Wilson’s The Mound Builders (New York: Broadway Theatre Archive, 1976).

  Wynn, Thomas, and Frederick L. Coolidge, How to Think Like a Neandertal (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).

  Zeder, Melinda A., The American Archaeologist: A Profile (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1997).

  , “The American Archaeologist: Results of the 1994 SAA Census,” SAA Bulletin, March 1997.

  Index

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  Abbass, D. K. (“Kathy”), 101–19

  acronyms, 190

  Acropolis, 151

  Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 86–87

  Afghanistan, 203, 207, 208n, 212, 213

  Africa, 42, 72, 193, 194–95, 196. See also East Africa; Egypt

  African Burial Ground, New York City, 161–62, 163

  African slaves in the Caribbean, 17, 20, 21, 23, 26, 31

  agricultural sites, Peruvian. See farm sites, Peruvian

  AIA. See Archaeology Institute of America (AIA)

  Air Force, U.S. See U.S. Air Force

  alcohol, 68–73. See also rum

  alpacas, 223, 225, 236

  amateur museums. See museums: amateur

  American Battlefield Protection Program, 167

  American Indians. See Native Americans

  American Revolution. See Revolutionary War

  amphorae, 69, 148

  amputation of limbs, prehistoric, 54, 55

  ancient stairs. See stairs, ancient

  Anderson, Harry H., Jr., 109, 110

  Anderson, Richard, 136, 144–45

  Andes (Jacobs), 221

  Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 87

  Angkor Wat, 1

  Apaydin, Veysel, 225–26

  Apollo, 124, 138, 146, 149, 150

  archaeoastronomy, 75, 210–11, 224, 230

  archaeological novels. See novels

  archaeologist couples, 22, 27, 28, 32–33, 42, 89–94, 97–100, 227, 238–39

  archaeologists, attrition of. See attrition of archaeologists

  archaeologists, collective noun for, 220

  archaeologists’ collaboration with military. See collaboration with military

  archaeologists’ employment prospects. See employment prospects

  archaeologists’ feuds. See feuds

  archaeologists’ pay. See pay

  archaeology, contract. See contract archaeologists and contract archaeology

  archaeology, forensic. See forensics

  archaeology, underwater. See underwater archaeology

  archaeology field schools. See field schools

  Archaeology Institute of America (AIA), 129–30; conference of, 68–76, 190–98

  Archaeology of Human Origins (Shea class), 37, 42–54

  The Archaeology of Korea (Nelson), 79

  “archaeology of the contemporary past” (Schofield), 232–35

  archives. See collections

  Army, U.S. See U.S. Army

  Army Corps of Engineers. See U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

  army wives, 77–79

  arrowheads, 7, 47, 188

  art, prehistoric, 47, 48, 49, 55, 75, 82–84; in fiction, 56

  art galleries, 82–84

  artifacts: absence of, 46; author-found, 35–36; Caral, Peru, 238; cleaning of, 28, 141, 203; conservation and storage of, 103–4, 113, 203; contemporary, 233, 234; display of, 19, 187; English, 91; Explorers Club, 131–32; excessive, 86; Fort Drum, 203, 204, 205; fraudulent, 130; gold, 4, 91; identification, 34; illustration, 137, 146; logging of, 25, 137, 141; maritime, 101, 103–4, 113, 116, 131, 132, 205; misclassification, 204; Nasca, 229, 230; St. Eustatius, 19; sale of, 25, 82–84, 97; silver, 91; tiniest, 162; Yeronisos, 137, 138, 140, 142. See also arrowheads; axes, ancient; beads; nails and spikes; pottery; stone tools; stone weapons; tobacco pipes

  Ashmole, Elias, 92

  Ashmolean Museum, 87, 92

  Ashworth, Lance, 171, 173

  astronomy, prehistoric. See archaeoastronomy

  atlatls, 66

  Athena, 125

  Athens, 125, 151

  attrition of archaeologists, 177

  Auchincloss, Hugh, III, 108

  Auel, Jean, 52, 54–59

  Australia, 103, 109, 110

  Australopithecus, 51

  Aveni, Anthony, 211

  awards, 123–24, 129–30, 202, 212

  axes, ancient, 37, 38–39, 48

  Babylon, 199, 201

  Baghdad: Iraq Museum. See National Museum of Iraq

  bananas, 72

  Bandelier Award for Public Service to Archaeology, 129–30

  Barbados, 20, 26

  Barka, Norman, 89

  Bartley, Elizabeth, 221–22

  basalt, 38, 189

  beaches and beachcombing, 33, 35

  beads, 33, 34, 53–54, 100, 162

  beer, 68–73, 215

  beheading, evidence of, 5, 80

  Belize, 39

  Bingham, Hiram, 222–23, 226, 235

  birds, 137, 147

  Black Burial Ground, New York City. See African Burial Ground, New York City

  Blue Shield Committee. See International Committee of the Blue Shield; U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield

  “body farms,” 180

  body modification, 28; postmortem, 5

  “bog bodies,” 4–7

  Bogdanos, Matthew, 191n, 192n

  bombing targets, no-strike lists, 192n, 193, 194–95

  bone damage, 32, 51, 55

  bone grease production, 9–11, 239

  bones: Caral
, Peru, 238; beads made from, 53–54; of bison, 11; dating of, 98; of Denisovans, 39; dissolved, 4; Ethiopia, 40; in fiction, 56; flutes made from, 238; gnawed, 46, 66; of Indians, 8; of James Cook, 111n; of lambs, 65, 66; of mammoths, 47, 98; in post-9/11 remains, 162, 175, 176–77; of Revolutionary War soldiers, 155, 163; specialists in, 178; when burnt, 180. See also “oracle bones”; skeletons; skulls

  “Bones” Brennan (fictional character), 179

  bone tools, 98

  Boothroyd, Betty, 145

  Born to Explore (television series) 131, 139

  botany, 137, 147, 210. See also paleoethnobotany

  brewing, 68–73

  Britain. See Great Britain

  British Museum, 135, 151

  Broccoli, Domenico, 165, 172, 173

  Brookings, South Dakota, 98

  buildings, historic. See historic buildings

  burial grounds. See graves and burial grounds

  burial mounds, 7–8, 77, 80–81, 100, 221–22

  Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, 161n

  buses, unusual uses for, 185

  bus rides, perilous, 221

  butchery, 63–66, 98

  Buttermilk Creek Complex, Texas, 45n

  Caesarion, 134, 138

  Café Ayllu (Cusco, Peru), 230–31

  Cahokia, 11

  Calagione, Sam, 70

  Canada, 167–68

  Caral, Peru, 226–27, 237–40

  carbon-dating, 227

  Caribbean, 18–36

  carnivores, 42, 54, 63–64

  cars, vans, etc. See motor vehicles

  carvings: bone, 80, 238; ivory, 48, 49; jade, 75, 82–84. See also petroglyphs

  casinos, 95, 96, 139

  cathedrals and churches, 91

  caves, 49, 50, 52, 54, 56, 88, 188

  celebrities, 108, 135

  cemeteries and burial grounds. See graves and burial grounds

  Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 16

  CHAMP. See Cultural Heritage by Archaeology and Military Panel (CHAMP)

  chance and luck, 52, 75–76

  “channel flakes,” 205

  Chariots of the Gods (Däniken), 229, 230n

  Charleston, South Carolina, 94

  chemical analysis, 69, 72

  Chile, 45n

  China, 71, 75–76, 80, 82

  Chinese in South Dakota, 95, 96–98

  Chinese jades, 75, 82–84

  churches and cathedrals. See cathedrals and churches

  Civil War, 96, 167, 170, 187

  The Clan of the Cave Bear (Auel), 52, 54

  The Clan of the Cave Bear (film), 56n

  classification and naming, 53n, 60–61; errors, 204; sexism in, 81. See also acronyms

  Cleopatra VII, 124, 134, 138–39, 143

  Clonycavan Man, 4–5

  clothing: of archaeologists, 17, 68, 74, 99, 108, 137, 142, 192; of farm animals, 185; of historical reenactors, 165, 168, 171; Revolutionary War, 167

  codes of conduct, 164–65

  coins, 1, 127, 138, 140, 234

  collaboration with military, 191, 193, 195, 196, 213–15

  collections, 19, 204, 233; access and preservation, 86–88; Explorers Club, 131–32; funding cutbacks, 86; St. Eustatius, 33. See also museums

  collectors and collecting: of ancient art, 82–84; in films, 128; of fossils and stones, 92; of postcards, 170. See also looting and looted artifacts

  Comer, Douglas, 236

  computers, 25, 29, 137, 201, 206

  conduct codes. See codes of conduct

  Connelly, Joan Breton, 123–28, 130–51

  constellations, 125–26

  contemporary archaeology. See “archaeology of the contemporary past” (Schofield)

  contract archaeologists and contract archaeology, 155–71, 173, 205–6; post-9/11, 175–79, 189

  Cook, James, 103, 110, 111, 116

  coral, 29–30

  Coward, Erin, 175–78, 186–87, 188–89

  Coward, Lane, 186, 187, 188–89

  cranial modification, 28

  Crawford, Patricia, 42, 62–63

  Creamer, Winifred, 227, 238–39

  crime-scene investigation and analysis, 178–86

  Croft, Paul, 136, 142, 144

  “cultural chameleons,” 108–9

  Cultural Heritage by Archaeology and Military Panel (CHAMP), 190–92

  cultural heritage playing cards, 198, 202–3, 208n, 212–13

  Cultural Heritage Protection Act, 127

  cultural misunderstandings, deadly, 214–15

  cultural resource management (CRM) firms, 86, 158, 161–62, 164, 166, 172, 177–78, 236; errors, 204; as source of temporary employment, 85

  curatorship. See collections: access and preservation

  Cusco, Peru, 219, 229, 230–31, 235–36

  Czech Republic, 47–49

  CyArk, 197n

  Cyprus, 124, 126–27, 134–54; Department of Antiquities, 139, 150n

  dance floors, ancient, 138, 146, 149

  Däniken, Erich von, 229–30

  data entry errors, 25

  dating, radiocarbon. See carbon-dating

  dating of bones, 98

  dating of rocks, 40

  Daughters of the American Revolution, 157

  Deadwood, South Dakota, 95–100

  debitage, 205

  Defense Intelligence Agency. See U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency

  demolition of historic sites and buildings, 26, 96, 97–98, 108, 187

  Denisovans, 39

  Denmark, 6, 232

  Department of Defense (DoD). See U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)

  diet, carnivore. See carnivores

  diet of hominins, 51

  digging. See excavation

  DNA, 49–50

  documentation, 178. See also artifacts: logging of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, 70, 71

  dogs, mummified, 7

  Dolní Věstonice, 47–49, 57

  domestication of animals, 44, 53, 56

  Dominican Republic, 27

  donations, 142, 146, 173; of bodies to science, 100; of money, 106, 109, 110, 135

  dredging operations, 89

  dress. See clothing

  drunkenness. See inebriation

  dualism, 46, 81

  dumps. See garbage and garbage dumps

  Dupin, Doug, 187–88

  Dutch Caribbean, 18–36, 88–90, 93

  Dwyer, Debbie, 115

  Earl of Pembroke (ship), 110

  Earl of Sandwich (fast-food franchise), 116

  Earl of Sandwich. See Montagu, John, 4th Earl of Sandwich; Montagu, John, 11th Earl of Sandwich

  earthquakes, 139

  Earth’s Children book series (Auel), 54–59

  earth-mother religion, 55, 57n

  East Africa, 39, 45. See also Ethiopia

  eating. See diet of hominins; food

  eBay, 25, 97

  effigy mounds, 7–8, 100

  Egypt, 134, 138, 150, 213

  Elgin Marbles, 151

  employment prospects, 85–94, 113, 177

  The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Archaeology (Reid and Gilmore), 94

  Endeavour (Endeavour Bark), 103, 107, 109–10, 112, 116

  England, 87, 90–94, 110–11, 124

  English Heritage, 223

  errors, gaffes, etc. See gaffes, errors, etc.

  Ethiopia, 39–40, 62–63, 71n

  Ethnic Oasis: The Chinese in the Black Hills (Zhu and Fosha), 95

  ethnobotany. See paleoethnobotany

  European continental shelf, 222

  evolution, 40, 49–50, 52, 56

  evolution of landscapes. See geomorphology

  excavation: by backhoe, 158, 159, 166; Caral, 227; by chauffeur, 79; by children, 2, 38; Dominican Republic, 27; England, 91; excessive, 86; Fishkill, 159; of Ford Explorer, 233; of goat parts, 51; Goddess Temple, 75; lower Manhattan, 161; maritime, 106; Netherlands, 28; New Jersey, 169; of pig, 181, 183–84, 185–86; St. Eustatius, 21, 22–25, 30–
31, 34; South Dakota, 9, 97; of stone tools, 39; too close to DMZ, 86; urge toward, 211, 235; Yeronisos, 124, 136–37, 139–40, 148. See also “test pits”

  Explorers Club, New York City, 130–33

  farm animals. See livestock

  farm sites, Peruvian, 238

  farmstead sites, American, 86, 204

  Farrell, Mara, 165n

  fast-food restaurants, 116–17, 231

  federal funding, 86–87, 202–3

  fermented beverages, 68–73

  feuds, 227, 238–39

  field schools, 15–36, 134–51, 169, 177

  films, 2, 11, 56n, 127–30, 150

  Finlayson, Clive, 52

  fire and fire-making, 3, 9, 10, 63, 66–67; in fiction, 56

  firecrackers, ancient, 48

  Fishkill Supply Depot, Fishkill, New York, 155–69, 171–74

  flint, 44, 46, 56

  flintknapping, 38, 39, 44, 63, 64, 66

  flowers: as grave markers, 31; in human burial, 52, 54, 55, 61

  Florida, 6–7

  Fluffy (bog dog), 7

  food: ancient, 69, 72; Cyprus, 141, 142, 145; eaten by archaeologists, 10, 11, 66, 169, 229; eaten by the Earl of Sandwich, 116–17; eaten by Native Americans, 10–11; fly-covered, 65; miniature, 220. See also carnivores; fast-food restaurants

  Ford, Harrison, 129–30

  Forensic Archaeological Recovery (FAR), 176n

  forensics, 6, 175–86, 189

  Fort Drum, New York, 199–216

  Fosha, Michael, 97–100, 104

  Fosha, Rose Estep, 95, 97–100

  fossils: childhood collecting of, 2, 92; human and hominin, 40, 51; marine, 162

  France, 18, 103, 110, 204

  Franks, Tommy, 192n

  fraudulent artifacts. See artifacts: fraudulent

  freedpeople, 18, 21, 161

  freelance archaeology. See contract archaeologists and contract archaeology

  French and Indian War, 105

  Friends of the Fishkill Supply Depot, 165, 168, 171–72, 173–74

  fruit trees, 30

  gaffes, errors, etc., 25, 30–31, 45–46, 204–5; deadly, 214–15

  garbage and garbage dumps, 22, 35, 38, 46, 160, 169, 180

  gender, 76–77, 80, 81, 104–5, 130

  General Services Administration (GSA), 161, 162n

  geocaching, 147–48

  geochronology. See dating of rocks

  geoglyphs, 229, 230

  geomorphology, 46, 99, 132

  Georgia (country), 39, 88

  Germany, 6, 7, 21, 36, 235

  ghost malls, 155, 156

  ghost towns: New York State, 208–9

  Gibson, McGuire, 196n

  Gill-Frerking, Heather, 6–7, 231–32

  Gilmore, Grant, 18, 19–36, 88–94, 95, 129

 

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