The Five-Minute
Archaeologist
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
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The Five-Minute Archaeologist is a user-friendly exploration of basic concepts within
archaeology, with particular attention to the region of the southern Levant. This
volume is intended for students and lay readers alike, and would be an excellent
reader for introductory level courses on archaeology in college and university
settings. Topics range from basic archaeological concepts to various types of
archaeology, written by specialists in those particular fields. Chapters are informal
and relaxed – more like a chat or discussion that will help to answer some of the
basic questions that archaeologists are often asked.
Contents
Introduction – Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
Part 1: Basics
1. What is archaeology? – Aren Maeir 2. How does archaeology help us understand the
past? – Merilyn Copland 3. What do tells tell us? – Merilyn Copland 4. Who pays for all
this? – Oded Borowski 5. Do archaeologists just dig, or is there a plan? – Itzhaq Shai
6. How are sites chosen? – Aren Maeir 7. Who decides who can dig and where? – Chris
McKinny 8. Why not dig the whole site? – Aren Maeir 9. What is a survey and why use it? –
Joe Uziel 10. Why leave balks around squares? – Oded Borowski 11. What is a locus? – Tim
Frank 12. What is a phase and a stratum? – Eric Welch 13. Are there rules for excavating
or special techniques? – Chris McKinny 14. How are measurements taken and why? – Eric
Welch 15. Why sift and how often? – Joe Uziel 16. How do you know what things to record?
– Seung Ho Bang 17. What if an animal got there first? – Elizabeth R. Arnold
Part 2: Artifacts, Architecture, and Dating
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott is Associate Professor of
Hebrew Bible and Archaeology at William Jessup
University in Rocklin, California, USA.
2017 288pp 216 x 138mm Illus.
pb ISBN 9781781792421
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18. What is an artifact? – Edward F. Maher 19. How do you identify an artifact and how it
was used? – Tim Frank 20. What can pottery tell us? – Nava Panitz-Cohen 21. What do
we Learn from Whole or Broken Pots? – Jill Citron Katz 22. What Is primary vs. secondary
use? – Erin Darby 23. How is pottery processed during/after the excavation? – Nava
Panitz-Cohen 24. How can 3D imaging help? – Tim Frank 25. How do you spot mudbrick
walls? – Amihai Mazar 26. How do you identify dirt floors? – Oded Borowski 27. How
do you identify dirt roads? – Rafael Y. Lewis 28. How do you date things? – Eric Welch
29. What is absolute or relative about dating? – Jill Citron Katz 30. Where’s the science in all
this? – Shira Gur-Arieh 31. What is carbon dating? – Elisabetta Boaretto 32. Can Bayesian
statistics help pinpoint dating? – Elisabetta Boaretto 33. What Is Dendrochronology? –
Brita Lorentzen 34. What happens to all the data? – Piotr Bienkowski
Part 3: Types of Archaeology
35. What is Processual Archaeology? – Sarah Kielt Costello 36. What is Post-Processual
Archaeology? – Sarah Kielt Costello 37. What is EthnoArchaeology? – Jennie Ebeling
38. What is Experimental Archaeology? – Jennie Ebeling 39. What is Household
Archaeology? – Cynthia Shafer-Elliott 40. What is Gender Archaeology? – Cynthia ShaferElliott 41. How do you identify children in the archaeological record? – Rona Avissar Lewis
42. What is Funerary Archaeology? – Helen Dixon 43. How do you define cultic context? –
Jonathan S. Greer 44. How do you define ethnicity? – Aaron Brody 45. What can we learn
from the ancient environment? – Elizabeth R. Arnold 46. What is Landscape Archaeology?
– Rafael Y. Lewis 47. What is MicroArchaeology? – Deirdre N. Fulton 48. What do we learn
from animal bones? – Jonathan S. Greer 49. Why study garbage? – Deirdre N. Fulton
50. What is ArchaeoMetallurgy? – Naama Yahalom-Mack
Part 4: Ethical Issues
51. What is kept and what Is not, and why? – Leann Pace 52. Who owns the artifacts
found? – Leann Pace 53. How do artifacts end up In museums? – Helen Dixon 54. How
much looting takes place during or after a dig? – Laura Wright 55. How is archaeology
used to support nationalism? – Erin Darby 56. It is ethical to dig in contested areas? –
Laura Wright
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