Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (670 page)

The patterns of child-rearing that serve to endorse behaviours and understandings of the world that are approved of by society.

 
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The processes which sustain or perpetuate characteristics of a given social structure or tradition over a period of time.

 
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The organizational form of a given society which according to Anthony Giddens is constituted by processes involving the mutual orientation of actors toward one another such that each is both an individual and an object of orientation for other actors. This mutual orientation gives rise to mutual responses of a plurality of goal-directed actions in a symbolically defined environment.

 
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Founded on 28 December 1934 at the Hotel Roosevelt, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when 31 individuals signed the constitution. The SAA has since come to represent professional and non-professional archaeologists in America and is one of the premier archaeological societies in the world. The society publishes the journals
American Antiquity
and
Latin American Antiquity
, and holds an annual conference.

 
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Membership society, one of the main period societies based in the UK, established in 1957 to further the study of the period from the 5th to the 16th centuries
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, primarily from the archaeological evidence, and to act as a forum for coordinating the efforts of archaeologists working on medieval matters. Although the primary focus of attention is Britain and Ireland this is set within a broader international perspective. Publications include
Medieval Archaeology
.

 
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Membership society, one of the main period societies based in the UK, established in 1967 to promote the study of archaeological evidence of British and colonial history of the post-medieval period before the onset of industrialization. Publications include
Post-Medieval Archaeology
.

 
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