In the beginning : an introduction to archaeology / Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing archaeology -- The beginnings of scientific archaeology: sixth century B.C. to the 1950s -- The many-voiced past: archaeological thought from the 1950s to now -- The basics -- Matrix and preservation -- Doing archaeological research -- Culture, data, and context -- How old is it? -- Recovering the data -- They sought it here, they sought it there: finding the past -- How to excavate -- Analyzing the past: artifacts and technology -- Classifying artifacts -- Technologies of the ancients -- Studying environments and people -- Ancient environments -- What did we eat? -- The living past -- Landscape and settlement -- Interactions: people of the past -- Archaeology and the intangible -- Managing the past -- Cultural resource management (crm[nh2]) and public archaeology -- Archaeology and contemporary society -- Careers and resources -- So you want to become an archaeologist?