title: Discovering Our Past: A Brief Introduction to Archaeology
author:  Wendy Ashmore 
description: Wendy Ashmore is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. Her research centers on settlement patterns, household archaeology, gender, and ancient space and place in southeastern Mesoamerica. Publications include Settlement Archaeology at Quirigu&#225;, Guatemala (University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2007), and edited volumes on Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns (New Mexico, 1981), Household and Community in the Mesoamerican Past (with R. R. Wilk, New Mexico, 1988), Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Approaches (with A. B. Knapp, Blackwell, 1999), and Integrating the Diversity of 21st-Century Anthropology: The Life and Intellectual Legacies of Susan Kent (with M.-A. Dobres, S. M. Nelson, and A. Rosen, American Anthropological Association, 2006), together with numerous articles and book chapters on these and related topics.
zlib_text: The
  ArchaeOlOgist’s
  HandbOOk
  By Helen Maclean
  Innsmouth House Press
  2013
  
  e Archaeologist’s Handbook
  By Helen Maclean
  ©2013
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  thereof, in any form.
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  been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents 
  Act, 1988.
  Printed and bound in Great Britain for Innsmouth House.
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  ISBN-13:  978-0-9576778-1-4
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  Table Of COntents
   
   
   
   
   
   
        Page 
  Introduction
  1
  What is Archaeology?
  3
  A History of Archaeology
  3
  Site Formation
  11
  Techniques
  13
  Museums
  26
  Running an Archaeological Excavation
  32
  Fakes & Forgeries
  36
  A Geography of Archaeology
  39
  Example Characters
  64
  A Day in the Life of...
  67
  Famous Archaeologists
  70