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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction for Educators

Part 1. Fundamental Concepts

• Introduction
• Lesson 1.1: Why is the Past Important?
• Lesson 1.2: Culture Everywhere
• Lesson 1.3: Observation and Inference
• Lesson 1.4: Archaeological Context
• Lesson 1.5: Chronology: The Time of My Life
• Lesson 1.6: Classification and Attributes
• Lesson 1.7: Scientific Inquiry
• Lesson 1.8: It's in the Garbage

Part 2. The Process of Archaeology

• Introduction
• Lesson 2.1: Gridding a Site
• Lesson 2.2: Stratigraphy and Cross-Dating
• Lesson 2.3: Artifact Classification
• Lesson 2.4: Tree-Ring Dating
• Lesson 2.5: Archaeobotany
• Lesson 2.6: Measuring Pots
• Lesson 2.7: Experimental Archaeology
• Lesson 2.8: Mending Pottery
• Lesson 2.9: Looking at an Object
• Lesson 2.10: Archaeological Soils
• Lesson 2.11: Inference by Analogy

Part 3. North Carolina's First Peoples

• Introduction
• Lesson 3.1: The Pathfinders
• Lesson 3.2: The Forest People
• Lesson 3.3: Woodland Pottery Makers
• Lesson 3.4: The Village Farmers

Part 4. Shadows of People

• Introduction
• Lesson 4.1: Shadows of North Carolina's Past
• Lesson 4.2: Shifting Coastlines
• Lesson 4.3: Name That Point!
• Lesson 4.4: North Carolina Pottery Traditions
• Lesson 4.5: A Siouan Village
• Lesson 4.6: Language Families
• Lesson 4.7: North Carolina Place Names

Part 5. Issues in Archaeology

• Introduction
• Lesson 5.1: Archaeology as a Career
• Lesson 5.2: Rock Art
• Lesson 5.3: Creating Your Own Rock Art
• Lesson 5.4: Artifact Ethics
• Lesson 5.5: Site Robbers
• Lesson 5.6: A Guided Journey into the Past
• Lesson 5.7: Take Action, Save the Past

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