Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-347) and index.
History and contemporary American archaeology / Bruce Trigger -- Aspects of the application of evolutionary theory in archaeology / Robert Dunnel -- The "New Archaeology" then and now / Lewis Binford -- Marxism in American archaeology / Antonio Gilman -- Formal approaches in archaeology / George Cowgill -- Ideology and evolutionism in American archaeology / Arthur Demarest -- The present and the future of hunter -gatherer studies / John Yellen -- Paleopathology and the interpretation of economic change in prehistory / Mark Cohen -- The structural analysis of Paleolithic art / Margaret Conkey -- Ancient China and its anthropological significance / Kwang-Chih Chang -- Settlement pattern studies and evidences for intensive agriculture in the Maya Lowlands / Gordon Willey -- The political economy of the Inka empire / Timothy Earle, Terence D'Altroy -- An epigenetic view of the Harappan culture / W.A. Fariservis -- The use and abuse of world systems theory / Philip Kohl -- Msopotamia, Central Asia, and the Indus Valley / C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky -- New tracks on ancient frontiers / Rita Wright -- Pastoralism and the early state in Greater Mesopotamia / Allen Zagarell.