Part I Introduction; 1. Why Study Artifacts? An Interdisciplinary Approach, Sarah Wisseman, Wendell Williams; Part II Ancient Technologies and Experimental Archaeology; 2. From Pots to People: Ceramic Production in the Ancient Mediterranean, Sarah U. Wisseman; 3. The Diffusion of Technological Knowledge: A Case Study in North American Ceramic Analysis, Thomas J. Riley, Philip Hopke, Rodger Martin, James W. Porter; 4. Invention, Thought, and Process: Strategies in Iron Tool Production, Charles Keller; 5. Classics and Technology: A Reevaluation of Heron's First-Century A.D. Steam Engine, Paul T. Keyser; Part III Organic Materials and the Reconstruction of Early Environments; 6. Can Elemental Analysis of Archaeological Skeletons Determine Past Diet and Health?, Linda Klepinger; 7. Plants and People: An Introduction to Paleoethnobotany, Margaret van de Guchte, Richard Edging; 8. History, Identification, and Characterization of Old World Fibers and Dyes, Mastura Raheel; Part IV Museums and Monuments; 9. Science and the Art Museum: The Analysis of Archaeological Materials, Wendell S. Williams; ch0010 X-Ray Vision: The Recovery of Early Medieval Ironwork, Barbara Oehlschlaeger-Garvey, Henry Maguire, Wendell S. Williams, Richard Keen; 11. Saving the Monuments of the Athenian Acropolis, Eric C. Freund; 12. Imaging the Past: Interdisciplinary Analysis of an Egyptian Mummy, Sarah Wisseman;