| | ix | |
| Preface | | xi | |
| Acknowledgments | | xiii | |
| PART I PROLOGUE | | 1 | (20) |
| Communicating Present Pasts |
| | 3 | (18) |
| PART II ECOLOGICAL RELATIONS | | 21 | (76) |
| | 23 | (16) |
| Willow Smoke and Dogs' Tails: Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems and Archaeological Site Formation |
| | 39 | (22) |
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| Understanding Changing People/Plant Relationships in the Prehispanic Andes |
| | 61 | (18) |
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| Ecological Interpretations of Palaeolithic Art |
| | 79 | (18) |
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| PART III POLITICAL ECONOMY | | 97 | (106) |
| | 99 | (15) |
| Peer Polity Interaction and Socio-political Change |
| | 114 | (29) |
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| The Ancient Economy, Transferable Technologies and the Bronze Age World-system: A View from the Northeastern Frontier of the Ancient Near East |
| | 143 | (22) |
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| Specialization and the Production of Wealth: Hawaiian Chiefdoms and the Inka Empire |
| | 165 | (24) |
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| Beneath the Material Surface of Things: Commodities, Artifacts, and Slave Plantations |
| | 189 | (14) |
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| PART IV SOCIAL AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION | | 203 | (94) |
| Process, Structure and History |
| | 205 | (15) |
| Explaining the Upper Palaeolithic Revolution |
| | 220 | (20) |
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| Braudel and North American Archaeology: An Example from the Northern Plains |
| | 240 | (18) |
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| The Power of Prestige: Competitive Generosity and the Emergence of Rank Societies in Lowland Mesoamerica |
| | 258 | (24) |
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| Cultural Transmission and Cultural Change |
| | 282 | (15) |
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| PART V MEANING AND PRACTICE | | 297 | (116) |
| | 299 | (16) |
| The Symbolic Divisions of Pottery: Sex-related Attributes of English and Anglo-American Household Pots |
| | 315 | (35) |
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| | 350 | (14) |
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| Style and the Design of a Perfume Jar from an Archaic Greek City State |
| | 364 | (30) |
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| The Living, the Dead and the Ancestors: Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Mortuary Practices |
| | 394 | (19) |
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| PART VI FEMINIST AND GENDER ARCHAEOLOGIES | | 413 | (104) |
| Understanding Sex and Gender |
| | 415 | (16) |
| The Interplay of Evidential Constraints and Political Interests: Recent Archaeological Research on Gender |
| | 431 | (29) |
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| Gender, Space, and Food in Prehistory |
| | 460 | (25) |
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| What This Awl Means: Toward a Feminist Archaeology |
| | 485 | (16) |
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| Dorothy Hughes Popenoe: Eve in an Archaeological Garden |
| | 501 | (16) |
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| PART VII THE PAST AS POWER | | 517 | (82) |
| Representations and Antirepresentations |
| | 519 | (12) |
| Public Presentations and Private Concerns: Archaeology in the Pages of National Geographic |
| | 531 | (18) |
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| The Past as Propaganda: Totalitarian Archaeology in Nazi Germany |
| | 549 | (21) |
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| Archaeological Annapolis: A Guide to Seeing and Understanding Three Centuries of Change |
| | 570 | (29) |
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| PART VIII RESPONSES OF ``THE OTHER'' | | 599 | (66) |
| | 601 | (14) |
| Alternative Archaeologies: Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist |
| | 615 | (17) |
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| History and Prehistory in Bolivia: What About the Indians? |
| | 632 | (14) |
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| Inuit Perceptions of the Past |
| | 646 | (6) |
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| Bone Courts: the Rights and Narrative Representation of Tribal Bones |
| | 652 | (13) |
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| PART IX DIALOGUE | | 665 | |
| Theoretical Archaeological Discourse |
| | 667 | |
