Chapter 1. The Searchers: The History of Archaeology  

Chapter 2. What is Left? The Variety of the Evidence  

Chapter 3. Where? Survey and Excavation of Sites and Features 

Chapter 4. When? Dating Methods and Chronology 

Chapter 5. How Were Societies Organized? Social Archaeology 

Chapter 6. What Was the Environment? Environmental Archaeology 

Chapter 7:. What Did They Eat? Subsistence and Diet 

Chapter 8. How Did They Make and Use Tools? Technology and Material Culture 

Chapter 9. What Contact Did They Have? Trade and Exchange 

Chapter 10:. What Did They Think? Cognition, Art, and Religion 

Chapter 11. Who Were They? What Were They Like? The Bioarchaeology of People 

Chapter 12. Why Did Things Change? Explanation in Archaeology 

Chapter 13. Archaeology in Action: Five Case Studies 

Chapter 14. Whose Past? Archaeology and the Public 

Chapter 15. The Future of the Past: How to Manage the Heritage?