Eventful Archaeologies

Douglas J. Bolender is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Toward an Eventful ArchaeologyDouglas J. BolenderPart I. Eventful Prehistories 1. Cascading Prehistoric Events: Fractalizing Prehistoric ResearchEzra B. W. Zubrow2. A Paleohistorical Approach to Upper Paleolithic Structural ChangesFrançoise Audouze and Boris Valentin3. Becoming, Phenomenal Change, Event: Past and Archaeological Re-presentationsDušan Bori´c4. Event and Short-Term Process: Times for the Early Neolithic of Southern BritainAlasdair Whittle, Alex Bayliss, and Frances Healy5. The Neolithic Argonauts of the Western Mediterranean and Other Underdetermined Hypotheses of Colonial EncountersPedro Díaz-del-Río6. Eventful Archaeology, the Heuneburg Mudbrick Wall, and the Early Iron Age of Southwest GermanyBettina ArnoldPart II. Eventful Histories and Beyond 7. The Annales, Events, and the Fate of CitiesJohn Bintliff 8. Modeling the "Amazon" Phenomenon: Colonization Events and Gender PerformancesTimothy Taylor 9. The Allure of the Event in Roman Provincial ArchaeologyLouise Revell 10. The ad 79 Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius: A Signifi cant or Insignifi cant Event?Penelope M. Allison 11. Testing Eventful Archaeologies: Eventful Archaeology and Volcanic "Disasters"John P. Grattan 12. Events, Temporalities, and Landscapes in IcelandOscar Aldred and Gavin Lucas 13. Freedom as a Negotiated History, or an Alternative Sort of Event: The Transformation of Home, Work, and Self in Early New YorkChristopher N. Matthews Epilogue 14. Archaeology and the Human Career: Revolutions, Transformations, EventsGraeme BarkerIndex