Includes bibliographical references and index.

Engaging archaeology : an introduction and a guide / Stephen W. Silliman -- [1] Landscapes, settlements, and regions -- Climbing hillforts and thinking about warfare in the pre-Columbian Andes / Elizabeth Arkush -- Losing control in the American Southwest : collaborative archaeology in the service of descendant communities / Matthew Liebmann -- Getting it wrong for all the right reasons : developing an approach to systematic settlement survey for Viking Age Iceland / John M. Steinberg, Douglas J. Bolender, and Brian N. Damiatta -- Archaeological projects in India : decolonizing archaeological research, assessing success, and valuing failure / Uzma Z. Rizvi -- Lifeways of the first Australians : regional archaeology in the remote north of Australia / Jane Balme -- The Kuril Biocomplexity Project : anatomy of an interdisciplinary research program in the North Pacific / Ben Fitzhugh -- Listen for the echo of drums across the water : rock art sites as engaged community research in Ontario, Canada / John William Norder -- The heart of lightness : doing archaeology in the Brazilian Central Amazon / Eduardo G. Neves -- [2] Sites, households, and communities -- Household archaeology at the community scale? : refining research design in a complex Polynesian chiefdom / Jennifer G. Kahn -- Research spaces from borderland places : Late Woodland archaeology in southern Ontario / Neal Ferris -- Ethnoarchaeology of pottery in Tigray, Ethiopia : engaging with marginalized people / Diane Lyons -- Integrating paleoethnobotany in investigations of Spanish colonialism in the American Southwest / Heather B. Trigg -- Framing local history with global archaeological lenses in Osun Grove, Nigeria / Akinwumi Ogundiran -- Rooting in New England : archaeologies of colonialism, community, and collaboration / Stephen W. Silliman -- Accidentally digging Central America's earliest village / Rosemary A. Joyce -- Slouching towards theory : implementing bioarchaeological research at Petra, Jordan / Megan A. Perry -- In archaeology, "You get what you get," and most of the time what you get is unexpected : investigating Paleoindians in western North America / Ted Goebel -- Archaeologies of a medieval Irish castle : thinking about trim / Tadhg O'Keeffe -- [3] Materials, collections, and analyses -- Dr. Stage-Love, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love my dissertation on clay pipes / Anna Agbe-Davies -- Lessons learned in seriating Maya pottery / Lisa Lecount -- The bones from the other tell : zooarchaeology at Çatal Hüyük West / David Orton -- Disrupting fixed narratives : researching colonial dress and identity in museum collections / Diana DiPaolo Loren -- Reverse engineering in prehistory : the Neolithic bow of La Draga, Spain / Juan A. Barceló, Vera Moitinho de Almeida, Oriol López, Antoni Palomo, and Xavier Terradas -- Learning about learning in Ice Age France through stone tools : an intersectional feminist approach without gender / Kathleen Sterling -- How not to write a PhD thesis : some real-life lessons from 1990s Michigan and prehistoric Italy / John Robb.