• Focus on the research process.

  • Gives students a more comprehensive discussion about what archaeologists actually do as researchers—not just as excavators or analysts. Ex.___

• Succinct presentation

  • Allows instructors to focus on preferential material and use supplementary journal articles without over-taxing students. Enables students to concentrate on important points without reading detailed or tangential material. Ex.___

• Emphasis on underlying reasons.

  • Introduces students to methods designed and implemented to solve specific problems by collecting specific types of data and analyzing them in specific ways. Ex.___

• Conversational writing style.

  • Offers students interesting and easy to comprehend information. Ex.___

• Artifacts, ecofacts, and features.

  • Offers students an understanding of the archaeological record through the three primary categories of recovered material. Ex.___

• New perspective.

  • Provides an opportunity for students and instructors to explore archaeology as a science or discipline—not simply a methodology. Ex.___

PETER N. PEREGRINE is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Dr. Peregrine received his Ph.D. in 1990 from Purdue University, where he did research on the late prehistoric Mississippian culture of the Midwestern United States. Dr. Peregrine has dedicated his career to teaching undergraduates and regularly teaches courses on archaeology, research methods, and human evolution. He has also conducted archaeological fieldwork in the United States and Syria trying to understand how and why complex societies evolve and collapse. He is the author of more than 30 articles and book chapters and has authored or edited six books, including Mississippian Evolution: A World-System Perspective (1992) and Archaeology of the Mississippian Culture (1996).