Waubonsee Community College

Archaeology's footprints in the modern world, Michael Brian Schiffer

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-374) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Archaeology's footprints in the modern world

bibliography

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Michael Brian Schiffer

Evaluating myths, sagas, and legends -- Debunking the "lost races" myth -- Did the Norse beat Columbus to the Americas? -- King Solomon's mines -- Complementing historical evidence -- The confederate submarine, H.L. Hunley -- The "poor" potter of Yorktown, Virginia -- Nuclear archaeology in the Nevada desert -- Enhancing cultural tourism and heritage awareness -- Mount Vernon and George Washington's whiskey distillery -- Kourion, a Roman town in Cyprus -- The World Heritage site of Stonehenge -- Collaborating with communities -- The Levi Jordan plantation project -- The Ozette site and the Makah Indian Nation -- Thurstan Shaw and Nigeria's enigmatic bronzes -- Pursuing an activist agenda -- Remembering the Ludlow Massacre -- Advocating for homeless people -- Promoting the electric car revival -- Reviving ancient technologies -- Chipped stone scalpels -- Raised-field agriculture in the Andes -- Ancient pots and modern potters in the American Southwest -- Managing cultural resources -- Federal agencies and cultural resource management -- Tribal archaeology : the Seminole Indians of Florida -- Archaeology in the city of Alexandria, Virginia -- Participating in judicial and diplomatic processes -- California Indians v. United States -- Antiquities acts and the looting of the GE Mound -- The international antiquities trade -- Doing fieldwork in a forensic context -- Solving a murder in the Midlands of England -- A Nazi-era mass grave in Ukraine -- Recovery of missing American military personnel -- Expanding the social sciences -- The Garbage Project -- The "material-culture turn" in the social sciences -- Undocumented migrants face the Arizona desert -- Contributing to the physical sciences and engineering -- The mysterious pigment : Maya blue -- Radiocarbon dating -- Nuclear waste disposal -- Bolstering biological sciences -- Origin of the domesticated sunflower -- The pygmy rabbit and applied zooarchaeology -- Microbiota of the human gut and coprolites -- Furnishing tools for environmental sciences -- Tree-ring dating and dendroclimatology -- Dating Sunset Crater -- Mass extinctions of animals : the human role -- Revealing our prehistoric past -- In the beginning -- From foragers to farmers -- The urban revolution