INDEX
Note: this is part of an electronic companion that supplements Kevin Greene's book Archaeology: an introduction (1995); click on the title to start from the home page.
INDEX
Click on the initial letter of the word that you are looking for, select the word from the alphabetical list, and then click on the word itself to get to the relevant section of this electronic companion. NB: I have only included the most important context of each word.
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Aborigines, Australian
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS), see also radiocarbon dating
aerial photography
American civilizations
Americans, native
amino acid racemization dating
analysis, scientific, see also characterisation, isotopic analysis, neutron activation analysis, spectrometry, trace elements, use-wear analysis, X-ray fluorescence
animals: extinct; see also bones, fish, insects, shells, zoology
anthropology
antiquarians, antiquarianism; see also Aubrey, Boucher de Perthes, Camden, Cyriac, Evans, John, Frere, Leland, Lhwuyd, Montelius, Petrie, Peyrere, Schliemann, Stukeley, Thomsen, Winckelmann, Woolley, Worsaae
architecture; Greek and Roman; medieval; see also buildings, building materials
artefacts: antiquarian studies; early human; experiments with; recording; use for dating; see also conservation, typology
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Athens
Aubrey, John
Avebury, Wiltshire
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barrows
Bible
Binford, Lewis
biology
biostratigraphic dating
birds
blood
bones: animal; bone artefacts; bird; dating methods; fish; human; see also otoliths, teeth
botany
Boucher de Perthes, Jacques
British Museum, London
bronze
Bronze Age; Greek
building materials: brick; clay; concrete/mortar; mud-brick; stone; timber; wattle and daub
buildings, structures: foundations; post-holes; reconstruction; roofing
burial mounds
burials: cemeteries; cremations; grave-goods; inhumations; see also human remains, megalithic tombs, reburial
Butser Ancient Farm
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Camden, William
camp sites
castles
catchment analysis
cation-ratio dating
caves
cemeteries
characterisation
Childe, V. Gordon
churches, cathedrals
civilizations: discovery; emergence
clay; pottery
climate
coins; use for dating
collectors, collections; see also museums
computers, computing; see also GIS
concrete
conservation: of artefacts; of sites and landscapes
copper
Copper Age
coprolites
Corbridge, Northumberland
crannogs
crop-marks
cross-dating
cultural resource management
cultures, culture history
Cyriac of Ancona
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Darwin, Charles; see also evolution
dating: absolute; by association; relative; terminus ante quem; terminus post quem; see also coins, cross-dating, historical, sequence, seriation, stratigraphy
dating, scientific; see also amino acid racemization, biostratigraphy,
cation-ratio, electron spin resonance, fission-track, fluorine/uranium/nitrogen, geological, ice-sheet cores, magnetic, obsidian hydration, optical, potassium-argon, radiocarbon, seriation, thermoluminescence (TL), tree-ring, uranium series, varves, volcanic ash
decipherment
dendrochronology
diet
diffusionism
disease
DNA
domestication
dowsing
Druids
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ecology
economics, ancient
EDM (electronic distance meter)
Egypt; artefacts; historical records; sites and monuments
electron spin resonance (ESR) dating
English Heritage
environmental archaeology; see also climate, plants, pollen, soil science, tree-rings
ethnicity; see also race
ethnoarchaeology
Evans, John
Evans, Arthur
evolution; see also social evolution
excavation techniques: 19th century; burials; open area; sections; stone structures; timber structures; trenches; underwater
experimental archaeology; see also building reconstruction, Butser, use-wear
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fakes
feminism
fieldwork: antiquarian; field survey; fieldwalking
fish, fishing
fission-track dating
flint
flotation
fluorine/uranium/nitrogen dating
fluxgate gradiometer
formation processes
fossils
Frere, John
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gender
genetics
geography; see also GIS
geological dating
geology; see also fossils, petrology, stratification
geophysical prospecting and surveying; see also dowsing, metal detectors, radar, sonar
GIS (Geographical Information Systems)
glaciers
graves, grave-goods, see also burials
Greek archaeology
Greek civilization
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Hadrian's Wall
Hadrian, Emperor
Harris Matrix
Herculaneum, Italy
heritage
historical archaeology
historical dating
Hodder, Ian
hominids
Hoxne, Suffolk
human antiquity
human remains; see also bones, hominids, mummies, pathology
hunter-gatherers
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Ice Age
Ice Man
ice-sheet cores
Indians, American
indigenous peoples, rights of
industrial archaeology
inscriptions
insects
Inuits
iron
Iron Age
isotopic analysis
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Jorvik, York
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Knossos, Crete
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landscape archaeology
lead
leather
Leland, John
Lhwuyd, Edward
Libby, Willard F
Lubbock, John
Lyell, Sir Charles
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magnetic dating
magnetic reversals
magnetic susceptibility
magnetometers
marble
Marx, Karl
Mary Rose
mathematics
medieval archaeology
megalithic tombs
Mesolithic
Mesopotamia
metal detectors; see also treasure hunting
metals, metalworking
microscopes; SEM
Middle Range Theory
Minoan civilization
molluscs
Montelius, Oscar
Morgan, Lewis
mortar
mud-brick
mummies
museums
Mycenaean civilization
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nationalism
Neanderthals
Neolithic
neutron activation
new archaeology
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obsidian
obsidian hydration dating
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
optical dating
otoliths
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Palaeolithic
palynology
pathology
Petrie, Flinders
petrology
phosphate analysis; see also soil science
Peyrère, Isaac de la
photography; photomicrographs; see also aerial photography, video
Piltdown Man
Pitt Rivers, General
place-names
plants; plant opals; see also pollen analysis, seeds, trees
politics; see also Marx, nationalism
pollen analysis
Pompeii, Italy
population
post-holes
post-processualism
potassium-argon dating
pottery
prehistoric archaeology
Prestwich, Joseph
processualism
public, and archaeology
pyramids
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race, racism; see also ethnicity
radar
radioactivity
radiocarbon dating; AMS; calibration; first-order
reburial of human remains
relativism
remote sensing
Renaissance
rescue archaeology
resistivity
Roman civilization
Rome, Italy
Rosetta Stone
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Schliemann, Heinrich
sea-bed cores
sections
seeds
SEM
sequence dating
seriation
settlement patterns
shadow sites
shells
ship-burials
ships, shipwrecks
Silbury Hill, Wiltshire
simulation studies
Sites and Monuments Records
snails
social evolution
sociology
soil science
soil-marks
sonar scanners
spatial archaeology
spectrometry
stalagmite
statistics
stone; see also stone construction
Stone Age
Stonehenge
stratification, archaeological
stratification, geological
structuralism
Stukeley, William
surveying
Sutton Hoo, Suffolk
symbolism
systems theory
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Tacitus
taphonomy
teeth; see also bones
tells
terminus ante quem, terminus post quem
theory, archaeological; see also ethnoarchaeology, Middle Range Theory, new archaeology, post-processualism, processualism, structuralism, systems theory
Thera (Santorini)
thermoluminescence (TL) dating
Thomsen, C J
Three-Age System
timber; see also tree-rings
tourism
towns
trace elements
trade
travellers, explorers
treasure hunting; see also metal detectors
tree-ring dating; environmental implications
Troy
typology
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underwater archaeology
uranium series dating
urban archaeology
use-wear analysis
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varves
Verulamium (St Albans), Herts
video
volcanic ash, use for dating
volcanoes
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weather, see climate
wetland sites
Wheeler, Mortimer
Wheeler, Tessa
Winckelmann, Johann
wood
woodland; see also trees
Woolley, Leonard
Worsaae, J
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X-ray examination
X-ray fluorescence
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York
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zoology