AltaMira Press
Pages: 366
Trim: 9 x 11½
978-0-7591-1806-5 • Hardback • April 2010 • $133.00 • (£102.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
978-0-7591-1807-2 • eBook • October 2009 • $126.00 • (£97.00)
Thomas W. Neumann is an archaeologist at a private firm in Georgia. Robert M. Sanford is professor of environmental science and policy at the University of Southern Maine.
Chapter 1 Prefaces to First and Second Editions
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Credits
Chapter 4 1: Introduction and Overview of Professional Archaeology
Chapter 5 2: Laws, Regulations, and Protocols
Chapter 6 3: Proposals and Contracts
Chapter 7 4: Preparing the Project Background
Chapter 8 5: The Phase I Process: Identification of Possible Historic Properties
Chapter 9 6: The Phase II Process: Testing and Evaluation
Chapter 10 7: The Phase III Process: Mitigation through Data Recovery
Chapter 11 8: Laboratory Structure, Processing, Analysis
Chapter 12 9: Report Preparation and Production
Chapter 13 Appendix A: Register of Professional Archaeologists Code of Conduct and Standards of Research Performance
Chapter 14 References Cited
Chapter 15 Index
Chapter 16 About the Authors
Reading Neumann and Sanford's prose is akin to being in the field or lab with a trusted and knowledgeable mentor who has copious stories to share that are imbued with layer after layer of useful inside information.... In short, Practicing Archaeology gets one as close to the action as a text can.
— Plains Anthropologist
New Edition Features
- Chapter summaries
- Letters from professionals in the field
- Up-to-date information on student employment, federal regulations, technology and ecotourism
- Appendix on professional ethics