What Is Archaeology?

Preface to the English Translation
Translator's Preface
Introduction
1. The "New Archeology"
The Founding Fathers
A Prehistoric and Americanist Archaeology
Traditional Archaeology as Seen by the New Archeology
The New Archeology Compared with the "Old"
The Philosophical Foundations of the New Archeology
The Theoretical and Scientific Environment of the New Archeology
The Objective of the New Archeology
2. The Hypothetico-deductive Method
The Hypo-deductive Method
The Validation of Hypotheses
Protracted Amazement: The Nonvalidation of Hypotheses
Pits and Pots
Against Braidwood
Against Bordes
The American Disciples
The English
Renfrew and the Cyclades
Traditional Validations
Pseudovalidations
Validations
3. Laws
Laws
Variations
No Laws
Mickey Mouse Laws
Schiffer's Laws
Critique
Waste Products Law
South's Law
4. Theories
Theories
Central Theory, Middle-Range Theory
Read's Theory: Area of Habitation and Population
Critique
Binford and the Nunamiut Eskimo
Against Yellen
Critique
5. The Old Archaeology and the New: A Comparison of Results
An Epistemological Failure
The Essential Conclusions
Their Character
Their Solidity
Their Interest
The Results of Conventional Archaeology
The Example of Nichoria
6. The Spirit and the Letter
The State of Mind
Sects
Days of Contempt
The Motivations
Form
References and Illustration
A Cloud of Smoke
7. The Conned
The "Conned" and Followers
Critical Faculty
Variability
The Motivations
8. An Attempt at an Assessment
An Acknowledgment of Failure
Logical Reasons
Philosophical Reasons
9. What Is Archaeology?
What Archaeology Alone Can Do
The Establishment of Facts
Facts and Approaches to Problems
Toward an Open Approach to Problems
Against the Manipulation of Facts
The Difficulties of Identification
Archaeological Demonstration
Induction
A Return to the Facts
10. The Territory of Archaeology
New Fields and New Problems
Excavation
Experimental Archaeology
Archaeometry
The Elaboration of Data
Description
Classification
Quantification
Processing by Computer
11. The Frontiers of Archaeology
Anthropology or History?
History and Liberty
The Distribution of Roles
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Index