INDEX

• aerial photographs, 6, 8, 52
• aerial surveys, 3, 5, 10
• Aftermath: Population Zero, 121
• Agora (Athens), 1
• Amenhotep III (Egyptian pharaoh), 61, 68
• American Antiquities Act, 116
• American Schools of Oriental Research Cultural Heritage Initiatives, 139n.20
• Ancestral Puebloan sites, 116
• Angkor Wat (Cambodia), 7, 10
• Antiquities Coalition, 139n.20
• antiquities trade, 110
• Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), 115
• Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA), 117
• Ardnamurchan Peninsula (Scotland), 83
• ARPA. See Archaeological Resources Protection Act
• artifact(s), 2, 4, 17–18, 20–21, 25, 29, 33–34, 37–38, 52, 58, 61, 73, 78–79, 82, 91, 116–118, 127–128
• Ashkelon (Israel), 105
• Athens (Greece), 1, 49
• balk(s), 44, 46–52, 128
• Bible Lands Museum (Jerusalem), 114
• Black Sea, 78–79
• Boeotia (Greece), 18, 23
• bog bodies, 76
• bogs, 76–77
• British Museum, 109
• CABBAGE. See Cambridge and Bradford Boeotian Archaeological and Geographical Expedition
• Cambridge and Bradford Boeotian Archaeological and Geographical Expedition (CABBAGE), 18–19
• Canterbury (England), 66–67
• Caracol (Belize), 10
• carbon-14 dating. See radiocarbon dating
• cesium magnetometer, 14, 127
• clothes, 2, 107, 123
• Colonial Williamsburg (USA), 40
• context(s), 24, 34, 37–39, 58, 64, 67, 93, 114
• Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export, and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, 115
• Corona program, 5
• crop marks, 8–10
• CT scans, 73, 92
• cultural resource management (CRM), 56
• Dead Sea Scrolls, 113–114
• dendrochronology, 60, 64, 68
• dental tools, 27, 30–31, 128
• diet, 96
• DigitalGlobe, 7
• ditch(es), 2, 8–9, 13, 22, 127
• DNA, 71, 73, 92, 104–106, 127
• drone(s), 11–12
• drought, 101
• Durrington Walls (England), 15
• earthwork(s), 8
• Electrical conductivity/resistivity, 12, 132n.8
• Elgin Marbles, 109
• El-Maskhuta, Tell (Egypt), 47–48
• Endeavor (space shuttle), 7–8
• Etruscan tombs/burial mounds, 6
• feature(s), 2, 8, 13–14, 17, 27–28, 36, 51–52, 70
• fens (see bogs)
• flotation, 100–101
• fluxgate gradiometers, 127
• full-coverage survey(s), 3, 18, 24–25
• future archaeology, 121, 123
• Gordion (Turkey), 95
• ground-penetrating radar, 15
• ground survey(s), 3–5, 17–18, 24
• ground truthing, 12, 111
• handpicks, 27, 30
• Harris matrix, 50
• Historic Sites Act, 116
• horizontal excavation, 40
• H. pylori, 87
• Ice Maiden 71, 74–75. See also Juanita; Siberian Princess
• infrared imaging, 8
• inorganic material, 69
• Iraq Museum (Baghdad), 111
• Jericho (West Bank), 38–39, 50
• Jerusalem (Israel), 44, 50, 102, 104, 114
• jewelry, 2, 33, 92, 125
• Jezreel (Israel), 11
• Juanita, 71, 75
• Kabri, Tel (Israel), 7, 11–12, 14, 24–26, 31–32, 35–36, 48–49, 53, 56, 64, 68, 94, 98, 101
• Kenyon-Wheeler method, 45–46, 50
• laser imaging, 92
• Lerici periscope, 6–7
• LiDAR (see Light Detection and Ranging)
• Life without People, 121
• Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), 10, 11, 126
• Lindow Man, 77–78, 85
• Lisht (Egypt), 111
• lost-wax method, 91, 137n.10
• Louvre (Museum), 109
• magnetic field, 13
• magnetometers, 13–15, 126–127, 132n.8. See also cesium magnetometer; proton magnetometers
• Marshalltown trowels, 28–29
• McDonald’s, 120–122, 125
• Megiddo (Israel), 1, 13, 28, 31, 40–42, 45, 53, 55, 64, 66
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), 109, 122
• minimum number of individuals (MNI), 96
• MNI. See minimum number of individuals
• Motel of the Mysteries, 124
• Mount Ampato (Peru), 75
• Mount Vesuvius (Italy), 90, 92
• Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), 122
• NAGPRA. See Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
• National Park Service, 116, 118
• Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 117
• Nefertiti (Egyptian queen), 68, 109
• Nimrud (Iraq), 76
• NISP. See number of identified specimens
• number of identified specimens (NISP), 99
• obsidian, 57, 67
• obsidian hydration, 67
• Olduvai Gorge (Africa), 65
• organic material, 27, 63, 65, 67, 69, 76, 84, 91, 95
• ORA. See Organic Residue Analysis
• Organic Residue Analysis (ORA), 94, 106
• Ötzi the Iceman, xi, 71–72, 86, 88
• pedestrian survey(s), 3, 24
• Philistines, 105–106
• photogrammetry, 36
• picks/pickax(es), xi, 27–29, 31, 33, 47, 128
• pit(s), 2, 4, 16, 22, 27, 110–112
• plaster of Paris, 91
• pollen, 87, 99–100, 102, 104
• Pompeii (Italy), 90, 92–94, 123
• potassium-argon analysis/dating, 61, 65
• pottery, 20–23, 25, 31, 33, 43, 50, 54–55, 57–68, 60, 63–64, 66–68, 99, 102, 106. See also sherds
• pottery seriation. See seriation
• PRAP. See Pylos Regional Archaeological Project
• Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act, 118
• proton magnetometer, 127, 132n.8
• provenance, 109
• Pylos (Greece), 3, 19, 23
• Pylos Regional Archaeological Project (PRAP), 3, 19, 21
• Qumran (Israel), 113
• radiocarbon dating, 60–65, 68, 84, 102, 106
• reconnaissance survey(s), 3, 18
• rehydroxylation, 66
• remote sensing, 3, 12–17, 126–127
• Richard III (British king), 87
• Rosetta Stone, 109
• SAFE: Saving Antiquities for Everyone, 139n.20
• Samaria (West Bank), 50
• sample survey(s), 3, 24
• satellite images/imagery/photographs, 5, 7–8, 17, 111
• seriation, 43, 67
• sherd(s), 20, 22–23, 57, 66, 94–95. See also pottery
• shovel(s), 27, 112, 128
• shovel-test pit(s), 4
• Siberian Princess, 71, 74
• Sidon (Lebanon), 105
• Silk Route, 71
• Starbucks, 121–123, 125
• Stonehenge (England), 15, 41
• stone tools, 2, 20, 22, 33, 57, 63–65, 67
• stratigraphic section, 43
• stratigraphy, 28, 41–42, 44, 46, 49–50, 67
• strontium isotope analysis, 86, 105–106
• Sulaymaniyah Museum (Iraq), 112
• Superhenge (England), 16
• superposition, 43
• survey(s). See aerial; ground; pedestrian; reconnaissance; sample; targeted
• surveying, xi, 1, 20, 25–26, 41
• Sutton Hoo (England), 80–83
• Tanis (Egypt), 8
• tapeworm(s), 103
• targeted survey, 24–25
• Tarim Basin (China), 70–71
• tel/tell, 42
• Teotihuacán (Mexico), 2
• Thebes (Greece), 18
• thermoluminescence, 61
• Third Scientific Revolution, 106
• Three Stones Make a Wall, ix, 129
• toilet, 102–104, 125
• Tollund Man, 77–78, 86
• tools, 1, 27, 29–30, 120, 126
• transect(s), 20–23
• tree-ring dating. See dendrochronology
• trowels, 27–28, 30–31, 128. See also Marshalltown trowels; WHS trowels
• Troy (Turkey), 14, 89, 125–127
• Tushratta (Mitanni king), 61
• Tutankhamun (Egyptian pharaoh), 37, 70, 87, 124, 126
• Ubar (Oman), 8
• Ukok Plateau (Siberia), 74
• Uluburun shipwreck, 68, 76
• Umma (Iraq), 112
• UNESCO, 115
• Ürümqi (China), 70
• US Committee of the Blue Shield, 139n.20
• vertical excavation, 40–41
• Vespasian (Roman emperor), 67
• wall(s), 2, 7–9, 12–13, 20, 33, 48–49, 58, 64, 95, 102, 127–128
• weapon(s), 2
• wet sieving, 32, 97–100, 104
• wheelbarrow(s), 27, 32, 46
• Wheeler-Kenyon method, 45–46, 50
• whipworm(s), 103
• WHS trowels, 28
• wine cellar, 11, 94
• World without Us, The, 121
• writing tablet, 76
• Zincirli (Turkey), 14