Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Toward an Eventful Archaeology 1
5. Eventful Prehistories
6. Cascading Prehistoric Events 17
7. A Paleohistorical Approach to Upper Paleolithic Structural Changes 29
8. Becoming, Phenomenal Change, Event 48
9. Event and Short-Term Process 68
10. The Neolithic Argonauts of the Western Mediterranean and Other Underdetermined Hypotheses of Colonial Encounters 88
11. Eventful Archaeology, the Heuneburg Mudbrick Wall, and the Early Iron Age of Southwest Germany 100
12. Eventful Histories and Beyond
13. The Annales, Events, and the Fate of Cities 117
14. Modeling the “Amazon” Phenomenon 132
15. The Allure of the Event in Roman Provincial Archaeology 151
16. The ad 79 Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius 166
17. Testing Eventful Archaeologies 179
18. Events, Temporalities, and Landscapes in Iceland 189
19. Freedom as a Negotiated History, or an Alternative Sort of Event 199
20. Epilogue
21. Archaeology and the Human Career 219
22. Index 237