The Oxford Companion to Archaeology

Acheulean Africa agricultural analysis ancient animals archae archaeological record Archaic archaic Homo sapiens architecture areas artifacts associated Australopithecus bones Britain Bronze Age burial cave Celts central century B.C. ceramic Chavín culture China civilization Classical coast complex culture Cuzco decorated deposits domesticated dynasty earliest early East eastern Egypt empire Europe European evidence evolution excavations fossils graves Greece Greek groups Harappan HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY Holocene hominids Homo erectus hunter-gatherers important Inca Iron Age island Kingdom kings known late later material Mediterranean ment Mesoamerica Mesolithic Middle millennium B.C. million years ago modern humans monuments mounds Neanderthals Neolithic North America northern Paleolithic patterns period plants Pleistocene population pottery prehistoric Professor of Anthropology radiocarbon dates region remains ritual River Roman settlement social society Southeast Asia southern species stone tools temple theory tion tombs trade tradition Upper Paleolithic Valley wall western