Archaeology's Footprints in the Modern World.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Evaluating Myths, Sagas, and Legends -- 1. Debunking the "Lost Races" Myth -- 2. Did the Norse Beat Columbus to the Americas? -- 3. King Solomon's Mines -- II. Complementing Historical Evidence -- 4. The Confederate Submarine, H. L. Hunley -- 5. The "Poor" Potter of Yorktown, Virginia -- 6. Nuclear Archaeology in the Nevada Desert -- III. Enhancing Cultural Tourism and Heritage Awareness -- 7. Mount Vernon and George Washington's Whiskey Distillery -- 8. Kourion, a Roman Town in Cyprus -- 9. The World Heritage Site of Stonehenge -- IV. Collaborating with Communities -- 10. The Levi Jordan Plantation Project -- 11. The Ozette Site and the Makah Indian Nation -- 12. Thurstan Shaw and Nigeria's Enigmatic Bronzes -- V. Pursuing an Activist Agenda -- 13. Remembering the Ludlow Massacre -- 14. Advocating for Homeless People -- 15. Promoting the Electric Car Revival -- VI. Reviving Ancient Technologies -- 16. Chipped Stone Scalpels -- 17. Raised-Field Agriculture in the Andes -- 18. Ancient Pots and Modern Potters in the American Southwest -- VII. Managing Cultural Resources -- 19. Federal Agencies and Cultural Resource Management -- 20. Tribal Archaeology: The Seminole Indians of Florida -- 21. Archaeology in the City of Alexandria, Virginia -- VIII. Participating in Judicial and Diplomatic Processes -- 22. California Indians v. United States -- 23. Antiquities Acts and the Looting of the GE Mound -- 24. The International Antiquities Trade -- IX. Doing Fieldwork in a Forensic Context -- 25. Solving a Murder in the Midlands of England -- 26. A Nazi-Era Mass Grave in Ukraine -- 27. Recovery of Missing American Military Personnel -- X. Expanding the Social Sciences -- 28. The Garbage Project -- 29. The "Material-Culture Turn" in the Social Sciences.

30. Undocumented Migrants Face the Arizona Desert -- XI. Contributing to the Physical Sciences and Engineering -- 31. The Mysterious Pigment: Maya Blue -- 32. Radiocarbon Dating -- 33. Nuclear Waste Disposal -- XII. Bolstering Biological Sciences -- 34. Origin of the Domesticated Sunflower -- 35. The Pygmy Rabbit and Applied Zooarchaeology -- 36. Microbiota of the Human Gut and Coprolites -- XIII. Furnishing Tools for Environmental Sciences -- 37. Tree-Ring Dating and Dendroclimatology -- 38. Dating Sunset Crater -- 39. Mass Extinctions of Animals: The Human Role -- XIV. Revealing Our Prehistoric Past -- 40. In the Beginning -- 41. From Foragers to Farmers -- 42. The Urban Revolution -- Notes -- References -- About the Author -- Index.

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