A. Katherine Patton is Associate Professor, teaching stream in the Anthropology Department at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Danielle A. Macdonald is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

Michael Chazan is a Professor in the Departments of Earth Science and Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Preface for Instructors; Chapter 1: Learning Archaeology: Introduction to the Book; Part 1: Excavation: Chapter 2: Laying out the Groundwork: The Excavations at Ali Kosh, Iran; Chapter 3: Uncovering Home: Excavations at Kharaneh IV, Jordan; Chapter 4: Archaeology of the Built Environment: Space Syntax Analysis; Chapter 5: Passamaquoddy Archaeology at WWII Prisoner of War Camp in Maine; Part 2: Analytical Methods: Chapter 6: Ts'msyen Fisheries Resource Management through Archaeology; Chapter 7: Interpreting the Stone Tools and Animal Bones from the Lower Paleolithic Site of Holon, Israel; Chapter 8: Rice or Nuts? Exploring Food Strategies of the Early Neolithic Communities in the Lower Yangtze Region Through Archaeobotanical Analysis; Chapter 9: Craft Specialization: An Indication of Early Complex Societies; Chapter 10: Using Geoarchaeology to Investigate Socio-Environmental Processes at Bronze Age Palaikastro, Crete, Greece; Chapter 11: Habitual Physical Activities of Ancestral KhoeSan Herders and Foragers in Holocene Southern Africa; Chapter 12: Shale Personal Ornaments from the Mesolithic Site of Star Carr (UK); Experimental Microwear and Biographical Approaches; Part 3: Archaeology of the Contemporary World: Chapter 13: The Materiality of Black Memory; Chapter 14: Learning Archaeology through Graffiti; Chapter 15: Reading Sherds: Pottery-Making and Archaeology from a Wädat Perspective; Glossary; Index.