Down to Earth Archaeology

William Y. Adams (1927-2019) was emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky and President of the Sudan Archaeological Research Society.

• Acknowledgements ; List of Plates ; List of Figures ; Map ; Editor’s Preface – Julie R. Anderson ; Preface – Genesis of a Maverick ; PERSPECTIVES ; 1. Three Questions for the Archaeologist (1992) ; 2. Science and Ethics in Rescue Archaeology (1984) ; 3. Three Perspectives on the Past: The Historian, The Art Historian, and The Prehistorian (1987) ; STRATEGY ; 4. Strategy of Salvage Archaeology (1973) ; 5. Organizational Problems in International Salvage Archaeology (1968) ; 6. Ends and Means in Large-Scale Excavations: Meinarti, Kulubnarti, and Qasr Ibrim (1995) ; CLASSIFICATION ; 7. Principles and Pragmatics of Pottery Classification: Some Lessons from Nubia (1975) ; 8. Archaeological Classification: Theory Versus Practice (1988) ; 9. Purpose and Scientific Concept Formation (1987) ; DATING ; 10. From Pottery to History: The Dating of Archaeological Deposits by Ceramic Statistics (1989) ; 11. Times, Types, and Sites: The Interrelationship of Ceramic Chronology and Typology (1987) ; CERAMICS ; 12. The Archaeologist and The Ceramologist (1981) ; 13. On the Argument from Ceramics to History: A Challenge Based on Evidence from Medieval Nubia (1979) ; INTERPRETATION ; 14. On Migration and Diffusion as Rival Paradigms (1978) ; 15. Paradigms in Sudan Archaeology (1981) ; 16. The Archaeologist as Detective (1973)

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