Examines some of the most important events in the development of a socially engaged archaeology concerned with issues in the contemporary world.

Chapter 1 Introduction, Robert Layton, Stephen Shennan, Peter Stone; Chapter 2 Peter Ucko's 'Humane Archaeology', Jack Golson; Chapter 3 Eaglehawk and Crow, Colin Tatz, Jacquie Lambert; Chapter 4 Repositioning Anthropology, 1972-1980, Nicolas Peterson; Chapter 5 Peter Ucko and the World Archaeological Congress (WAC), Michael Day; Chapter 6 Archaeological Overthrows, Neal Ascherson; Chapter 7 'All Smoke and Mirrors ...' The World Archaeological Congress, 1986-2004, Peter Stone; Chapter 8 The World Heritage Convention, Henry Cleere; Chapter 9 Public Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century, Tim Schadla-Hall; Chapter 10 Indigenous Human Remains and Changing Museum Ideology, Cressida Fforde, Jane Hubert; Chapter 11 'The Man Who Would Be Moses', Beverley Butler, Michael Rowlands; Chapter 12 'They Made it A Living Thing Didn't They ...', Siân Jones; Chapter 13 The Archaeology of Local Myths and Heritage Tourism, Kevin C. MacDonald, David W. Morgan, Fiona J.L. Handley, Aubra L. Lee, Emma Morley; Chapter 14 Practising Archaeology in Eastern and Southern Africa, George H. Okello Abungu; Chapter 15 Central European Archaeology at the Crossroads, Arkadiusz Marciniak; Chapter 16 Theoretical and Ethical Issues of Archaeology in South America, Gustavo G. Politis; Chapter 17 The Idea of Prehistory in the Middle East, David Wengrow; Chapter 18 Figurines in Action, Peter F. Biehl; Chapter 19 Objects of the Past, Fekri A. Hassan; Chapter 20 Central European Archaeology at the Crossroads, David Harris;