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Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Archaeology for the People (John Cherry & Felipe Rojas)
2. The Sanctuary: The World’s Oldest Temple and the Dawn of Civilization (Elif Batuman) [Reprinted from The New Yorker, December 19, 2011; permission to reproduce pending]
3. The Urban Gardens of Istanbul: An Archaeology of Sustenance (Marta Ostivich, Aleksandar Sopov, and Chantel White) [Prize-winning essay in the Archaeology for the People competition]
4. Origins: The Elusive Search for the First Native Americans (Chip Colwell)
5. Remembering Slack Farm (A. Gwynn Henderson)
6. Loot and the Biography of Pots (Vernon Silver)
7. The Decline and Fall of the Classic Maya City (Keith Eppich)
8. Digging Deep: A Hauntilogy of Cape Town (Nick Shepherd)
9. Photo Essay: Eating in Uronarti (Laurel Bestock)
10. Responses to a Questionnaire (Brian Fagan, Colin Renfrew, Alfredo González Ruibal, Marilyn Johnson, Cornelius Holtorf, Leonardo López Luján, Yannis Hamilakis, Kara Cooney, Lynn Meskell)
11. MOOCs: Teaching Archaeology to 45,000 Students (Susan Alcock, Andrew Dufton, Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver)
Reviews & Quotes
"Archaeology for the People is a useful and important volume that contains thought-provoking stories about a controversial past that is often deliberately ignored, including by many archaeologists secluded in the ivory tower of academia. Books like this one prevent the past from becoming an Ignoreland, to cite the title of a critical and mordant track included in REM’s album Automatic for the People."
XURXO M. AYÁN VILA
European Journal of Archaeology
(28/07/2017)