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Cover
Title Page
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Engaging Archaeology
1. Introduction
2. Archaeological Practice
3. Finding and Filling a Gap
4. A Guide to Engaging Archaeological Research
5. Conclusion
6. References
Part I: Landscapes, Settlements, and Regions
1. 2 Climbing Hillforts and Thinking about Warfare in the Pre‐Columbian Andes
  1. The Hillfort Project: Version One
  2. In the Field
  3. Theory and Interpretation
  4. The Hillfort Project: Version Two
  5. Theory and Interpretation: Under the Hood
  6. Looking Back
  7. Paired Reading
  8. References
2. 3 Losing Control in the American Southwest
  1. Introduction: The Meeting
  2. The Setting: The Valles Caldera/Wavema
  3. Finding the Right Data
  4. Methods
  5. Results
  6. Reflections and Lessons Learned
  7. Paired Reading
  8. References
3. 4 Getting It Wrong for All the Right Reasons
  1. The Idea: The Easy Part
  2. The Data: The Hard Part
  3. The Grant: The Best One Might Be a Rejected One
  4. The Scale: Right Methods, Wrong Organization
  5. The Middle Range: Incomplete Data, Incomplete Theory
  6. The Conclusion: The Right Way To Be Wrong
  7. Paired Reading
  8. References
4. 5 Archaeological Projects in India
  1. Retrospective Origins
  2. Setting Up the Survey: The Ganeshwar Jodhpura Cultural Complex (GJCC) Survey
  3. Decolonizing Archaeological Survey Methods: The GJCC 2003 Survey
  4. A Brief Note on the GJCC Survey Results
  5. Assessing Success and Valuing Failure
  6. Drinking Tea
  7. Concluding Thoughts
  8. Paired Reading
  9. References
5. 6 Lifeways of the First Australians
  1. Introduction
  2. The Project
  3. Approach
  4. The Excavations
  5. Interpreting the Chronological Sequence
  6. The Technology
  7. Discussion
  8. Paired Reading
  9. References
6. 7 The Kuril Biocomplexity Project
  1. Introduction
  2. Biographical Account
  3. Methods
  4. Theory
  5. Results
  6. Reflections
  7. Lessons Learned
  8. Paired Reading
  9. References
7. 8 Listen for the Echo of Drums Across the Water
  1. Prologue
  2. The Questions of Rock Art
  3. Images and the Experience and Meaning of Place
  4. The Social Landscape of a Sacred World
  5. Speaking to Strangers
  6. Maps and the Meaning of Locative Experience
  7. Epilogue
  8. Paired Reading
  9. References
8. 9 The Heart of Lightness
  1. Doing Archaeology in the Amazon in the Early 1990s
  2. The Central Amazon Project
  3. The First Field School Years (1999–2005)
  4. The Pipeline Years (2005–2009)
  5. Reflections and Lessons Learned
  6. Paired Reading
  7. References
Part II: Sites, Households, and Communities
1. 10 Household Archaeology at the Community Scale?
  1. Introduction
  2. Project Management for Multi‐Year International Collaborative Research
  3. Research Questions and Theoretical Framework
  4. Linking Arguments: Material Correlates of House Societies
  5. Shifting the Research Design and Sampling Protocols
  6. Project Results: Successes and a Few Failures
  7. Final Commentary
  8. Paired Reading
  9. References
2. 11 Research Spaces from Borderland Places – Late Woodland Archaeology in Southern Ontario
  1. Introduction
  2. Finding a Space for Research
  3. Making that Research Space
  4. Research Spaces in Borderland Places
  5. Paired Reading
  6. References
3. 12 Ethnoarchaeology of Pottery in Tigray, Ethiopia
  1. Starting Out: Lessons in Patience
  2. The Tigray Pottery Project
  3. The Path to the Potters
  4. Theory
  5. Types of Data
  6. Reflections
  7. Lessons Learned
  8. Paired Reading
  9. References
4. 13 Integrating Paleoethnobotany in Investigations of Spanish
  1. Introduction
  2. My Dissertation
  3. My Current Research
  4. Lessons Learned
  5. Paired Reading
  6. References
5. 14 Framing Local History with Global Archaeological Lenses in Osun Grove, Nigeria
  1. Short Biographical Account
  2. Project Source
  3. Theoretical Framework
  4. Methods
  5. Nature of Data
  6. Reflections
  7. Lessons Learned
  8. Paired Reading
  9. References
6. 15 Rooting in New England
  1. Trying to Root in New England
  2. Project Implementation
  3. Making Sense of Things
  4. Reflections
  5. Lessons Learned
  6. Paired Reading
  7. References
7. 16 Accidentally Digging Central America’s Earliest Village
  1. Getting to Puerto Escondido: How Research and Researchers Develop
  2. The Lower Ulua Valley Project
  3. Puerto Escondido: Pursuing the Classic House Compound
  4. Unexpected Finds and Modified Research Goals
  5. Puerto Escondido: Understanding Everyday Life in a Cosmopolitan Village
  6. Reflections and Lessons Learned
  7. Paired Reading
  8. References
8. 17 Slouching Towards Theory
  1. Short Biographical Account
  2. Source of Project
  3. Theoretical Framework
  4. Methods
  5. Nature of Data
  6. Reflections
  7. Lessons Learned
  8. Paired Reading
  9. References
9. 18 In Archaeology, “You Get What You Get,” and Most of the Time What You Get Is Unexpected
  1. Introduction
  2. Exploring Bonneville Estates Rockshelter
  3. Theoretical Perspective
  4. Methods
  5. Results
  6. Reflections
  7. Lessons Learned
  8. Paired Reading
  9. References
10. 19 Archaeologies of a Medieval Irish Castle
  1. Introduction
  2. Asking Questions: Trim Castle as a Research Project
  3. Viewing Trim Castle Through Three Lenses: History, Archaeology, Scholarship
  4. Question 1: What is the Sequence at Trim Castle?
  5. Question 2: How Did Trim Castle “Work”?
  6. Final Reflections
  7. Paired Reading
  8. References
Part III: Materials, Collections, and Analyses
1. 20 Dr. Stage‐Love, or
  1. Introduction: The Best Eight Years of Your Life
  2. Inspiration
  3. Observation
  4. Explanation
  5. Integration
  6. Reflection
  7. Paired Reading
  8. References
2. 21 Lessons Learned in Seriating Maya Pottery
  1. Introduction
  2. Ceramic Seriation: The Basics
  3. Ceramic Seriation in the Mopan Valley
  4. Conclusions
  5. Paired Reading
  6. References
3. 22 The Bones from the Other Tell
  1. Site Background
  2. Aims
  3. Methods
  4. Theoretical Background
  5. Getting Involved
  6. Settling In
  7. Going West
  8. Priorities, Priorities
  9. Branching Out: Collaborations and Specialist Analyses
  10. Regional Meta‐Analysis
  11. Looking Back
  12. Paired Reading
  13. References
4. 23 Disrupting Fixed Narratives
  1. Conducting Research on Seventeenth‐Century Stone Molds and How Museums Shape Narratives
  2. Some Theory and History Regarding Dress
  3. Button Molds in the Museum, Thoughts on Looking and the Disruption of Narratives
  4. Lessons Learned and Reflections on Museum Collections
  5. Paired Reading
  6. References
5. 24 Reverse Engineering in Prehistory
  1. The Archaeological Site
  2. Research Questions
  3. The Neolithic Bows from La Draga and the Nature of Archery
  4. Replicating Prehistoric Bows
  5. Computer Simulation Experiments
  6. Lessons Learned
  7. Paired Reading
  8. References
6. 25 Learning about Learning in Ice Age France through Stone Tools
  1. Biographical Note
  2. The Project
  3. The Data
  4. Reflections and Lessons Learned
  5. Paired Reading
  6. References
7. 26 How Not to Write a PhD Thesis
  1. Introduction
  2. The Backstory
  3. Formulating a Project
  4. The Research Design Encounters Reality
  5. Habits of Mind and Intellectual Footwork
  6. Your Research, Your Self: Intellectual Comfort Zones
  7. Conclusions: Surviving a Research Project, and Maybe Even Winding Up on Top
  8. Paired Reading
  9. References
Index
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List of Tables

Chapter 01
1. Table 1.1 Chart of major topics (other than regions – see Figure 1.1) covered by all chapters. Recommended for those who want personalized sequences of reading or seek to build chapters around a course syllabus. NOTE: “Historical archaeology” is used in the section on temporal periods to try to identify those who (often) describe what they do as “historical archaeology” and not to suggest that the other periods are not historical nor to perpetuate any kind of prehistory‐history divide. For this reason, the other periods are not called “prehistoric” and are instead situated in larger divisions of absolute time.
Chapter 10
1. Table 10.1 Excavation samples sizes at select house sites in the ‘Opunohu Valley. Top rows, Sites 120–171C = dissertation; bottom rows, Sites 289–322 = NSF post‐dissertation.

List of Illustrations

Chapter 01
1. Figure 1.1 World map showing locations of research projects discussed in the volume, marked by chapter number.
Chapter 02
1. Figure 2.1 The western walls at Pucarani, the biggest hillfort in the northwestern Titicaca basin. This was the first hillfort I climbed as a graduate student in 1999. It had never been mapped or published.
Chapter 03
1. Figure 3.1 The ancestral Jemez province and Jemez Mountains obsidian sources.
Chapter 04
1. Figure 4.1 Fieldwork in Glaumbær and Meðalheimur, Iceland. Top: Brian Damiata (left) and John Steinberg experiment with GPR at Glaumbær with the grass removed. Surveying over the de‐turfed surface dramatically improved the geophysical results. Bottom: Douglas Bolender excavates substantial turf architecture at Meðalheimur. The site, based on historical sources, was assumed to be small and late, but turned out to be early and large.
Chapter 05
1. Figure 5.1 Map of Ganeshwar Jodhpura Cultural Complex survey sites based on 2003 survey.
Chapter 06
1. Figure 6.1 Section of Riwi, Square 1, East and South Walls, Kimberley, Australia. Picture shows the positions of some calibrated radiocarbon dates (bold) and optically‐stimulated luminescence (OSL) dates (italicized). The dotted black line marks the main stratigraphic discontinuity. The vertical trench in the corner is where OSL samples were removed.
Chapter 07
1. Figure 7.1 Maps and human population trends for the Kuril Islands. (a) Map of the northwest Pacific; (b) Close‐up map of the Kuril Islands; (c) Human population reconstruction trend reconstruction (see text and Fitzhugh et al. 2016).
Chapter 08
1. Figure 8.1 Cliff face with pictograph, northwestern Ontario. Can you find it?
Chapter 09
1. Figure 9.1 Photograph of fieldwork during the Central Amazon Project. Helena Lima (squatting), Carol Caromano (taking notes), and Anne Py‐Daniel (standing at the pit edge and supervising the project, well into her second trimester) receive public school students from Iranduba in their visit to excavation of Hatahara site, 2006.
Chapter 11
1. Figure 11.1 Arkona Site Cluster, southern Ontario. This map depicts the cluster of Late Woodland sites excavated in the Arkona area by CRM archaeologists, and the focus of the research program discussed in this chapter. Inset are settlement plans for the two larger sites excavated from this cluster.
Chapter 12
1. Figure 12.1 Map of Tigray, Ethiopia. Places named in the text.
Chapter 14
1. Figure 14.1 Aerial view and map of Osun Grove, Nigeria.
Chapter 15
1. Figure 15.1 Photograph of collaboration in the Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School. Image shows Natasha Leullier Snedeker (left) sharing recently‐discovered artifacts with two Eastern Pequot elders, Norma Parrish and the late Robert Sebastian.
Chapter 16
1. Figure 16.1 Map of northwestern Honduras showing places mentioned.
Chapter 17
1. Figure 17.1 Location of the excavation areas of the Petra North Ridge Project. Areas A, B, C, and D all contain domestic areas, Area E the purported bath complex, and Areas B and F the tombs.
Chapter 18
1. Figure 18.1 Map, photograph, and artifacts of Bonneville Estates Rockshelter in the Great Basin. (a) Map showing location of Bonneville Estates Rockshelter in the Great Basin; (b) View of the rockshelter; (c) Materials recovered from the excavation: 1, sage grouse bone with cut marks; 2–6, 8–11, stemmed‐point fragments; 7, katydid carcass with hind legs removed; 12–15, needle fragments; 16–17, bone‐bead preforms; 18, antler retoucher; 19, eyed needle; 20–22, twine fragments.
Chapter 19
1. Figure 19.1 Trim Castle, Co. Meath (Ireland). (a) View from the south; (b) Location map; (c) Plan of the castle; (d, e) Excavated sections of the fosse.
Chapter 20
1. Figure 20.1 Diagrams of classificatory systems. Interestingly, we could read the archaeologist’s focus on decoration as analogous to the way that earlier concepts of “race” relied on superficial features to create categories presumed to be internally homogeneous and externally heterogeneous.
Chapter 21
1. Figure 21.1 Ford Diagram of 36 lots of Actuncan pottery generated by Tim Hunt and Carl Lipo’s Frequency Seriation Tool 3.0.
Chapter 22
1. Figure 22.1 Plan of Çatalhöyük East and West, showing excavation areas.
Chapter 23
1. Figure 23.1 Both sides of a slate mold from Lincoln, Massachusetts, and exhibition label.
Chapter 24
1. Figure 24.1 Simulation results for the La Draga bow. Support diagram for the simulation tests of a bent bow, side view (left). Finite element model of artifact D/12 JF/JG‐81: Location of initial applied loads (center left); detail of the area with fixed geometry (center right). Detail of the upper limb of the finite element model subjected to various loads applied across 13 steps in 1 second to the back side of the nock (right) (Moitinho de Almeida 2013).
Chapter 26
1. Figure 26.1 Diagramming a research question. The research question provides continuity throughout a project such as a PhD thesis; note how it both remains the same but also changes as the work progresses.

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Figure 1.1	World map showing locations of research projects discussed in the volume, marked by chapter number.
Figure 2.1	The western walls at Pucarani, the biggest hillfort in the northwestern Titicaca basin.
Figure 3.1	The ancestral Jemez province and Jemez Mountains obsidian sources.
Figure 4.1	Fieldwork in Glaumbær and Meðalheimur, Iceland.
Figure 5.1	Map of Ganeshwar Jodhpura Cultural Complex survey sites based on 2003 survey.
Figure 6.1	Section of Riwi, Square 1, East and South Walls, Kimberley, Australia.
Figure 7.1	Maps and human population trends for the Kuril Islands.
Figure 8.1	Cliff face with pictograph, northwestern Ontario.
Figure 9.1	Photograph of fieldwork during the Central Amazon Project.
Figure 11.1	Arkona Site Cluster, southern Ontario. This map depicts the cluster of Late Woodland sites excavated in the Arkona area by CRM archaeologists, and the focus of the research program discussed in this chapter. Inset are settlement plans for the two larger sites excavated from this cluster. Map courtesy of Chris Watts.
Figure 12.1	Map of Tigray, Ethiopia.
Figure 14.1	Aerial view and map of Osun Grove, Nigeria.
Figure 15.1	Photograph of collaboration in the Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School, Connecticut.
Figure 16.1	Map of northwestern Honduras showing places mentioned.
Figure 17.1	Location of the excavation areas of the Petra North Ridge Project.
Figure 18.1	Map, photograph, and artifacts of Bonneville Estates Rockshelter in the Great Basin.
Figure 19.1	Trim Castle, Co. Meath (Ireland).
Figure 20.1	Diagrams of classificatory systems.
Figure 21.1	Ford Diagram of 36 lots of Actuncan pottery generated by Tim Hunt and Carl Lipo’s Frequency Seriation Tool 3.0.
Figure 22.1	Plan of Çatalhöyük East and West, showing excavation areas.
Figure 23.1	Both sides of a slate mold from Lincoln, Massachusetts, and exhibition label.
Figure 24.1	Simulation results for the La Draga bow.
Figure 26.1	Diagramming a research question.

Table 1.1	Chart of major topics (other than regions – see Figure 1.1) covered by all chapters.
Table 10.1	Excavation samples sizes at select house sites in the ‘Opunohu Valley.

25 Case Studies in Research Practice