Lives in Ruins (36 page)

archaeologists' employment prospects.
See
employment prospects

archaeologists' feuds.
See
feuds

archaeologists' pay.
See
pay

archaeology, contract.
See
contract archaeologists and contract archaeology

archaeology, forensic.
See
forensics

archaeology, underwater.
See
underwater archaeology

archaeology field schools.
See
field schools

Archaeology Institute of America (AIA), 129–30; conference of, 68–76, 190–98

Archaeology of Human Origins (Shea class), 37, 42–54

The Archaeology of Korea (Nelson), 79

“archaeology of the contemporary past” (Schofield), 232–35

archives.
See
collections

Army, U.S.
See
U.S. Army

Army Corps of Engineers.
See
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

army wives, 77–79

arrowheads, 7, 47, 188

art, prehistoric, 47, 48, 49, 55, 75, 82–84; in fiction, 56

art galleries, 82–84

artifacts: absence of, 46; author-found, 35–36; Caral, Peru, 238; cleaning of, 28, 141, 203; conservation and storage of, 103–4, 113, 203; contemporary, 233, 234; display of, 19, 187; English, 91; Explorers Club, 131–32; excessive, 86; Fort Drum, 203, 204, 205; fraudulent, 130; gold, 4, 91; identification, 34; illustration, 137, 146; logging of, 25, 137, 141; maritime, 101, 103–4, 113, 116, 131, 132, 205; misclassification, 204; Nasca, 229, 230; St. Eustatius, 19; sale of, 25, 82–84, 97; silver, 91; tiniest, 162; Yeronisos, 137, 138, 140, 142.
See also
arrowheads; axes, ancient; beads; nails and spikes; pottery; stone tools; stone weapons; tobacco pipes

Ashmole, Elias, 92

Ashmolean Museum, 87, 92

Ashworth, Lance, 171, 173

astronomy, prehistoric.
See
archaeoastronomy

atlatls, 66

Athena, 125

Athens, 125, 151

attrition of archaeologists, 177

Auchincloss, Hugh, III, 108

Auel, Jean, 52, 54–59

Australia, 103, 109, 110

Australopithecus, 51

Aveni, Anthony, 211

awards, 123–24, 129–30, 202, 212

axes, ancient, 37, 38–39, 48

Babylon, 199, 201

Baghdad: Iraq Museum.
See
National Museum of Iraq

bananas, 72

Bandelier Award for Public Service to Archaeology, 129–30

Barbados, 20, 26

Barka, Norman, 89

Bartley, Elizabeth, 221–22

basalt, 38, 189

beaches and beachcombing, 33, 35

beads, 33, 34, 53–54, 100, 162

beer, 68–73, 215

beheading, evidence of, 5, 80

Belize, 39

Bingham, Hiram, 222–23, 226, 235

birds, 137, 147

Black Burial Ground, New York City.
See
African Burial Ground, New York City

Blue Shield Committee.
See
International Committee of the Blue Shield; U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield

“body farms,” 180

body modification, 28; postmortem, 5

“bog bodies,” 4–7

Bogdanos, Matthew, 191n, 192n

bombing targets, no-strike lists, 192n, 193, 194–95

bone damage, 32, 51, 55

bone grease production, 9–11, 239

bones: Caral, Peru, 238; beads made from, 53–54; of bison, 11; dating of, 98; of Denisovans, 39; dissolved, 4; Ethiopia, 40; in fiction, 56; flutes made from, 238; gnawed, 46, 66; of Indians, 8; of James Cook, 111n; of lambs, 65, 66; of mammoths, 47, 98; in post-9/11 remains, 162, 175, 176–77; of Revolutionary War soldiers, 155, 163; specialists in, 178; when burnt, 180.
See also
“oracle bones”; skeletons; skulls

“Bones” Brennan (fictional character), 179

bone tools, 98

Boothroyd, Betty, 145

Born to Explore (television series) 131, 139

botany, 137, 147, 210.
See also
paleoethnobotany

brewing, 68–73

Britain.
See
Great Britain

British Museum, 135, 151

Broccoli, Domenico, 165, 172, 173

Brookings, South Dakota, 98

buildings, historic.
See
historic buildings

burial grounds.
See
graves and burial grounds

burial mounds, 7–8, 77, 80–81, 100, 221–22

Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, 161n

buses, unusual uses for, 185

bus rides, perilous, 221

butchery, 63–66, 98

Buttermilk Creek Complex, Texas, 45n

Caesarion, 134, 138

Café Ayllu (Cusco, Peru), 230–31

Cahokia, 11

Calagione, Sam, 70

Canada, 167–68

Caral, Peru, 226–27, 237–40

carbon-dating, 227

Caribbean, 18–36

carnivores, 42, 54, 63–64

cars, vans, etc.
See
motor vehicles

carvings: bone, 80, 238; ivory, 48, 49; jade, 75, 82–84.
See also
petroglyphs

casinos, 95, 96, 139

cathedrals and churches, 91

caves, 49, 50, 52, 54, 56, 88, 188

celebrities, 108, 135

cemeteries and burial grounds.
See
graves and burial grounds

Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 16

CHAMP.
See
Cultural Heritage by Archaeology and Military Panel (CHAMP)

chance and luck, 52, 75–76

“channel flakes,” 205

Chariots of the Gods
(Däniken), 229, 230n

Charleston, South Carolina, 94

chemical analysis, 69, 72

Chile, 45n

China, 71, 75–76, 80, 82

Chinese in South Dakota, 95, 96–98

Chinese jades, 75, 82–84

churches and cathedrals.
See
cathedrals and churches

Civil War, 96, 167, 170, 187

The Clan of the Cave Bear
(Auel), 52, 54

The Clan of the Cave Bear
(film), 56n

classification and naming, 53n, 60–61; errors, 204; sexism in, 81.
See also
acronyms

Cleopatra VII, 124, 134, 138–39, 143

Clonycavan Man, 4–5

clothing: of archaeologists, 17, 68, 74, 99, 108, 137, 142, 192; of farm animals, 185; of historical reenactors, 165, 168, 171; Revolutionary War, 167

codes of conduct, 164–65

coins, 1, 127, 138, 140, 234

collaboration with military, 191, 193, 195, 196, 213–15

collections, 19, 204, 233; access and preservation, 86–88; Explorers Club, 131–32; funding cutbacks, 86; St. Eustatius, 33.
See also
museums

collectors and collecting: of ancient art, 82–84; in films, 128; of fossils and stones, 92; of postcards, 170.
See also
looting and looted artifacts

Comer, Douglas, 236

computers, 25, 29, 137, 201, 206

conduct codes.
See
codes of conduct

Connelly, Joan Breton, 123–28, 130–51

constellations, 125–26

contemporary archaeology.
See
“archaeology of the contemporary past” (Schofield)

contract archaeologists and contract archaeology, 155–71, 173, 205–6; post-9/11, 175–79, 189

Cook, James, 103, 110, 111, 116

coral, 29–30

Coward, Erin, 175–78, 186–87, 188–89

Coward, Lane, 186, 187, 188–89

cranial modification, 28

Crawford, Patricia, 42, 62–63

Creamer, Winifred, 227, 238–39

crime-scene investigation and analysis, 178–86

Croft, Paul, 136, 142, 144

“cultural chameleons,” 108–9

Cultural Heritage by Archaeology and Military Panel (CHAMP), 190–92

cultural heritage playing cards, 198, 202–3, 208n, 212–13

Cultural Heritage Protection Act, 127

cultural misunderstandings, deadly, 214–15

cultural resource management (CRM) firms, 86, 158, 161–62, 164, 166, 172, 177–78, 236; errors, 204; as source of temporary employment, 85

curatorship.
See
collections: access and preservation

Cusco, Peru, 219, 229, 230–31, 235–36

Czech Republic, 47–49

CyArk, 197n

Cyprus, 124, 126–27, 134–54; Department of Antiquities, 139, 150n

dance floors, ancient, 138, 146, 149

Däniken, Erich von, 229–30

data entry errors, 25

dating, radiocarbon.
See
carbon-dating

dating of bones, 98

dating of rocks, 40

Daughters of the American Revolution, 157

Deadwood, South Dakota, 95–100

debitage, 205

Defense Intelligence Agency.
See
U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency

demolition of historic sites and buildings, 26, 96, 97–98, 108, 187

Denisovans, 39

Denmark, 6, 232

Department of Defense (DoD).
See
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)

diet, carnivore. See carnivores

diet of hominins, 51

digging.
See
excavation

DNA, 49–50

documentation, 178.
See also
artifacts: logging of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, 70, 71

dogs, mummified, 7

Dolní Věstonice, 47–49, 57

domestication of animals, 44, 53, 56

Dominican Republic, 27

donations, 142, 146, 173; of bodies to science, 100; of money, 106, 109, 110, 135

dredging operations, 89

dress.
See
clothing

drunkenness.
See
inebriation

dualism, 46, 81

dumps.
See
garbage and garbage dumps

Dupin, Doug, 187–88

Dutch Caribbean, 18–36, 88–90, 93

Dwyer, Debbie, 115

Earl of Pembroke
(ship), 110

Earl of Sandwich (fast-food franchise), 116

Earl of Sandwich.
See
Montagu, John, 4th Earl of Sandwich; Montagu, John, 11th Earl of Sandwich

earthquakes, 139

Earth's Children book series (Auel), 54–59

earth-mother religion, 55, 57n

East Africa, 39, 45.
See also
Ethiopia

eating.
See
diet of hominins; food

eBay, 25, 97

effigy mounds, 7–8, 100

Egypt, 134, 138, 150, 213

Elgin Marbles, 151

employment prospects, 85–94, 113, 177

The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Archaeology
(Reid and Gilmore), 94

Endeavour
(
Endeavour Bark
), 103, 107, 109–10, 112, 116

England, 87, 90–94, 110–11, 124

English Heritage, 223

errors, gaffes, etc.
See
gaffes, errors, etc.

Ethiopia, 39–40, 62–63, 71n

Ethnic Oasis: The Chinese in the Black Hills
(Zhu and Fosha), 95

ethnobotany.
See
paleoethnobotany

European continental shelf, 222

evolution, 40, 49–50, 52, 56

evolution of landscapes.
See
geomorphology

excavation: by backhoe, 158, 159, 166; Caral, 227; by chauffeur, 79; by children, 2, 38; Dominican Republic, 27; England, 91; excessive, 86; Fishkill, 159; of Ford Explorer, 233; of goat parts, 51; Goddess Temple, 75; lower Manhattan, 161; maritime, 106; Netherlands, 28; New Jersey, 169; of pig, 181, 183–84, 185–86; St. Eustatius, 21, 22–25, 30–31, 34; South Dakota, 9, 97; of stone tools, 39; too close to DMZ, 86; urge toward, 211, 235; Yeronisos, 124, 136–37, 139–40, 148.
See also
“test pits”

Explorers Club, New York City, 130–33

farm animals.
See
livestock

farm sites, Peruvian, 238

farmstead sites, American, 86, 204

Farrell, Mara, 165n

fast-food restaurants, 116–17, 231

federal funding, 86–87, 202–3

fermented beverages, 68–73

feuds, 227, 238–39

field schools, 15–36, 134–51, 169, 177

films, 2, 11, 56n, 127–30, 150

Finlayson, Clive, 52

fire and fire-making, 3, 9, 10, 63, 66–67; in fiction, 56

firecrackers, ancient, 48

Fishkill Supply Depot, Fishkill, New York, 155–69, 171–74

flint, 44, 46, 56

flintknapping, 38, 39, 44, 63, 64, 66

flowers: as grave markers, 31; in human burial, 52, 54, 55, 61

Florida, 6–7

Fluffy (bog dog), 7

food: ancient, 69, 72; Cyprus, 141, 142, 145; eaten by archaeologists, 10, 11, 66, 169, 229; eaten by the Earl of Sandwich, 116–17; eaten by Native Americans, 10–11; fly-covered, 65; miniature, 220.
See also
carnivores; fast-food restaurants

Ford, Harrison, 129–30

Forensic Archaeological Recovery (FAR), 176n

forensics, 6, 175–86, 189

Fort Drum, New York, 199–216

Fosha, Michael, 97–100, 104

Fosha, Rose Estep, 95, 97–100

fossils: childhood collecting of, 2, 92; human and hominin, 40, 51; marine, 162

France, 18, 103, 110, 204

Franks, Tommy, 192n

fraudulent artifacts.
See
artifacts: fraudulent

freedpeople, 18, 21, 161

freelance archaeology.
See
contract archaeologists and contract archaeology

French and Indian War, 105

Friends of the Fishkill Supply Depot, 165, 168, 171–72, 173–74

fruit trees, 30

gaffes, errors, etc., 25, 30–31, 45–46, 204–5; deadly, 214–15

garbage and garbage dumps, 22, 35, 38, 46, 160, 169, 180

gender, 76–77, 80, 81, 104–5, 130

General Services Administration (GSA), 161, 162n

geocaching, 147–48

geochronology.
See
dating of rocks

geoglyphs, 229, 230

geomorphology, 46, 99, 132

Georgia (country), 39, 88

Germany, 6, 7, 21, 36, 235

ghost malls, 155, 156

ghost towns: New York State, 208–9

Gibson, McGuire, 196n

Gill-Frerking, Heather, 6–7, 231–32

Gilmore, Grant, 18, 19–36, 88–94, 95, 129

Gilmore, Joanna, 22, 25, 32–33, 89–94

Glacial Lake Iroquois, 204, 205

glass: artifacts, 21, 24, 27, 100, 140; knapping of, 38

Goat Island, Rhode Island, 111