New approaches to old problems : archaeology in search of an ever elusive past / David S. Whitley -- Cognitive archaeology / Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus -- Symbolic, structural, and critical archaeology / Mark P. Leone -- Processual, postprocessual and interpretive archaeologies / Michael Shanks and Ian Hodder -- Sound, color and meaning in the metallurgy of ancient West Mexico / Dorothy Hosler -- Archaeological imaginings : contextualization of images / Persis B. Clarkson -- From domain specific to generalized intelligence : a cognitive interpretation of the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic transition / Steven Mithen -- Wrestling with analogy : a methodological dilemma in Upper Palaeolithic art research / J.D. Lewis-Williams -- Annalistes, hermeneutics and positivists : squaring circles of dissolving problems / Christopher S. Peebles -- Social reproduction of the longue durée in the prehistory of the midcontinental United States / Charles R. Cobb -- The development of horticulture in the Eastern Woodlands of North America : women's role / Patty Jo Watson and Mary C. Kennedy -- Boys will be boys : masculinist approaches to a gendered archaeology / A. Bernard Knapp --By the hunter, for the gatherer : art, social, relations and subsistence change in the prehistoric Great Basin / David S. Whitley -- Although they have petty captains, they obey them badly : the dialectics of Prehispanic western pueblo social organization / Randall H. McGuire and Dean J. Saitta -- Archaeology as socio-political action in the present / Christopher Tilley -- Return of the sacred : spirituality and the scientific imperative / Gary White Deer.