COMPANION ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARCHAEOLOGY -- Copyright -- Contents -- Volume 1 -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- General introduction -- Part I: Origins, Aims and Methods -- 1 Discovering the past -- 2 The development of archaeological theory: explaining the past -- 3 The nature of archaeological evidence -- 4 Field archaeology -- 5 Establishing archaeological chronologies -- 6 Reconstructing the environment and natural landscape -- 7 Studying people -- 8 Studying structures -- 9 Studying artefacts -- 10 Preserving and presenting the evidence -- Part II: Themes and Approaches -- 11 Culture and identity -- 12 The organization of society -- 13 Settlement and territory -- 14 Food and farming -- 15 Production and exchange in prehistory -- 16 Production and exchange in historical archaeology -- 17 Population dynamics -- 18 Cognition: thought, ideas, and belief -- Part III: Writing Archaeological History -- 19 Human evolution -- 20 Hunter-gatherer societies -- 21 Early agricultural societies -- 22 The development of rank societies -- 23 Urbanization and state formation -- 24 The development of empires -- 25 Post-collapse societies -- 26 Europe in the Middle Ages -- 27 Archaeology and Islam -- 28 Archaeology of the modern state: European colonialism -- 29 The archaeology of industrialization -- Index.