John Terrell is Regenstein Curator of Pacific Anthropology at Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. His most recent books are A Talent for Friendship: Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait (Oxford, 2014), and Understanding the Human Mind: Why You Shouldn't Trust What Your Brain is Telling You (written with his son Gabriel Stowe Terrell, Routledge, 2020).

" What I like about the whole book is the emphasis on historical and archaeological research as ‘not the search for truth, but as a venue to test hypotheses – research that is testable, refutable, and replicable.’” • Stephen Acabado, University of California-Los Angeles

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: History MattersChapter 1. Dynamic Relational AnalysisChapter 2. Start With a QuestionChapter 3. Theories of HistoryChapter 4. Modeling TheoriesChapter 5. Developing HypothesesChapter 6. Gathering InformationChapter 7. Analyzing DataConclusion: So What?GlossaryReferences

John Terrell is Regenstein Curator of Pacific Anthropology at Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. His most recent books are A Talent for Friendship: Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait (Oxford, 2014), and Understanding the Human Mind: Why You Shouldn't Trust What Your Brain is Telling You (written with his son Gabriel Stowe Terrell, Routledge, 2020).

" What I like about the whole book is the emphasis on historical and archaeological research as ‘not the search for truth, but as a venue to test hypotheses – research that is testable, refutable, and replicable.’” • Stephen Acabado, University of California-Los Angeles

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: History MattersChapter 1. Dynamic Relational AnalysisChapter 2. Start With a QuestionChapter 3. Theories of HistoryChapter 4. Modeling TheoriesChapter 5. Developing HypothesesChapter 6. Gathering InformationChapter 7. Analyzing DataConclusion: So What?GlossaryReferences

John Terrell is Regenstein Curator of Pacific Anthropology at Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. His most recent books are A Talent for Friendship: Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait (Oxford, 2014), and Understanding the Human Mind: Why You Shouldn't Trust What Your Brain is Telling You (written with his son Gabriel Stowe Terrell, Routledge, 2020).

" What I like about the whole book is the emphasis on historical and archaeological research as ‘not the search for truth, but as a venue to test hypotheses – research that is testable, refutable, and replicable.’” • Stephen Acabado, University of California-Los Angeles

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: History MattersChapter 1. Dynamic Relational AnalysisChapter 2. Start With a QuestionChapter 3. Theories of HistoryChapter 4. Modeling TheoriesChapter 5. Developing HypothesesChapter 6. Gathering InformationChapter 7. Analyzing DataConclusion: So What?GlossaryReferences