1. Archaeology and theAnthropocene What Is the Anthropocene? The Perspective of Archaeology Polynesia and the North Atlantic: Islands as Laboratories Methods: Survey and Excavation How Have Humans Made TheirWorld?
2. Discovering Diversity: ModernHuman Origins Diversity of Humans: Homo sapiens andNeanderthals Modern Humans Lascaux Cave and the Human Experience of the Ice Age Additional Human Experiences inthe IceAge Human Culture Begins to Shape theAnthropocene Protecting Cultural Diversity
Global Timeline 1: HumanOriginsand Migrations
3. Technology Makes the Human: Stone, Metal, and Organic Material Culture Stone Tools and the Discovery ofTime The Mechanics of Flintknapping Stone Tools as Evidence of HumanAdaptation Metalworking, a New Technology forCommunities Perishable Technologies: Revelations from the Iceman Technology, the Environment, andthe Anthropocene
4. Peopling the World: HumanDispersals to Australia, the Americas, andthePacific Inhabiting Australia Human Dispersals in theAmericas Inhabiting the Pacific Methods: Archaeological Survey Peopling and the Anthropocene
Global Timeline 2: PeopleandSocieties
5. Digging In: Responding toClimate Change in the American Southwest The American Southwest Methods: Excavation The Colorado Plateau and the Chaco Phenomenon Understanding Ancient Pueblo Society: Broken K Pueblo Other People of theSouthwest The Southwest and the ChangingEnvironment
6. Extinctions in the Past Big Game Hunters: The Clovis People Radiocarbon Dating The Spread of Clovis Hunting Megafauna Mastodons and the Role of aChangingEnvironment South America: The Giant GroundSloth The Role of Humans in ExtinctionEvents
7. Understanding Human Decisions: Evolutionary andSocial Theory Bison Hunters of the AmericanGreatPlains Zooarchaeology Bison Hunting and Butchering inContext South Pacific: Conflict and Fortification inFiji Europe: Deciding With or Against aCommunity in St. Kilda The Amazon: Decision-Making Today
8. Producing Food: Domestication and ItsConsequences in Southwest and East Asia Southwest Asia: The First Settlements What Led to the Development ofFarming? Archaebotany and the Evidence for Food Production Domestication: A Two-Way Process China: Independent Domestication andRice The Consequences of Farming The Critical Role of the Community in FoodProduction
Global Timeline 3: Domestication
9. Individuals and Identity: Agency inHistory Studying Identity Mesoamerica: The Aztecs Cortes and La Malinche Textiles, Identity, and Gender Bioarchaeology Inequality and Structural Violence inPrehistory Agency, Identity, and the Anthropocene
10. Feeding Cities: Urbanismand Agriculture Mesoamerica: Discovering theMaya Maize and the Maya The Maya City Southeast Asia: Irrigation andAgriculture atAngkor The State The Environmental Perils ofIntensification Cities, Surplus, and the Elite
11. Building Monuments, BuildingSociety: CollectiveLabor as SocialIdentity Monuments and Landscapes Ancient Egypt: Building the EgyptianState Monuments Among MobileCommunities Stonehenge and the PastoralistLandscape ofNeolithic Britain North America: The Hopewell Earthworks
12. Conspicuous Consumption: Feasts, Burials, and Sacrifice Chiefs and Hoards Feasting Residue Analysis Reciprocity The Ultimate Sacrifice: Human Europe: The Burial of VikingandAnglo-Saxon Ships Is Conspicuous Consumption Inevitable?
13. Writing: A History of Access toInformation Writing in Many Contexts Writings of the Maya Writings of the Sumerians Ancient Chinese Writing Alphabetic Writing Preservation of WritingSystems Without Writing: Systems ofNotation North Africa and Arabia: Literacywithout Settlement Writing and the Anthropocene
14. Extracting the ModernWorld: Fishing, Mining, andSlavery Extractivism, Markets, and theEnvironment Fishing and Maritime Extractivism Underwater Archaeology Extracted Minerals in the NewWorld Extracting People: TheSlaveTrade Extractivism and the Anthropocene
15. The Future of theAnthropocene The Challenges Ahead Extinctions and IncreasingDiversity Population Growth Fossil-Fuel Consumption andInnovation Understand Your Agency
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