Contents -- Introduction -- Ticked Off: Lyme Disease and Archaeologists -- Rabies: A Short Discourse -- The Fungus Among Us: Coccidioidomycosis (" Valley Fever") and Archaeologists -- Of Mice and Men: What Archaeologists Should Know About Hantavirus and Plague in North America -- Histoplasmosis: The Poop on Occupational Mycoses in Archaeological Contexts -- Nasty Little Things: Molds, Fungi, and Spores -- Smallpox and Other Scourges of the Dead -- Archaeologists and Parasites: The Real Scoop on Poop (and Other Worries) -- Old Cemeteries, Arsenic, and Health Safety -- Former Manufactured Gas Plants and Other Coal- Tar Industrial Sites -- Beneath City Streets: Brief Observations on the Urban Landscape -- Dig Fast, Die Young: Unexploded Ordnance and Archaeology -- Get the Lead Out -- Chemical Soup: Archaeological Hazards at Western Ore- Processing Sites -- A Final Forewarning: Practical Steps to Providing Archaeologists with Safe Working Environments -- Index -- Contributors.