Controversies in archaeology

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Controversies in archaeology

Alice Beck Kehoe

Left Coast Press, c2008

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-250) and index

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Description

Atlantis, ancient astronauts, and pyramid power. Archaeologists are perennially bombarded with questions about the "mysteries" of the past. They are also constantly addressing more realistic controversies: origins of the First Americans, the ownership of antiquities, and national claims to historical territories. Alice Beck Kehoe offers to introductory students a method of evaluating and assessing these claims about the past in this reader-friendly, concise text. She shows how to use the methods of science to challenge the legitimacy of pseudoscientific proclamations and develop reasonable interpretations on controversial issues. Not one to shy away from controversy herself, Kehoe takes some stands-on transpacific migration, shamanism, the Kensington Runestone-which will challenge instructor and students alike, and foster class discussion.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The Past is Today
  • Chapter 2 Scientific Method
  • Chapter 3 Popular Archaeology
  • Chapter 4 America's First Nations and Archaeology
  • Chapter 5 Finding Diversity
  • Chapter 6 Religion and Archaeology
  • Chapter 7 Diffusion Versus Independent Invention
  • Chapter 8 What People Before Us Could Do
  • Chapter 9 Neandertals, Farmers, Warriors, and Cannibals Bringing in Biological Data
  • Chapter 10 Competing Theories of Cultural Development

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