Archaeology in Practice: A Student Guide to Archaeological Analyses
by Editor: Jane Balme (University of Western Australia); Editor: Alistair Paterson (University of Strathclyde, Scotland)Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2009-02-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
Archaeology in Practice: A Student Guide to Archaeological Analyses offers students in archaeology laboratory courses a detailed and invaluable how-to manual of archaeological methods and provides insight into the breadth of modern archaeology. Written by specialists of material analyses, whose expertise represents a broad geographic range Includes numerous examples of applications of archaeological techniques Organized by material types, such as animal bones, ceramics, stone artifacts, and documentary sources, or by themes, such as dating, ethics, and report writing Written accessibly and amply referenced to provide readers with a guide to further resources on techniques and their applications Enlivened by a range of boxed case studies throughout the main text
Table of Contents
| Chapter Abstracts | |
| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
| Notes on Contributors | |
| List of Figures | |
| List of Tables | |
| Finding Sites | |
| Consulting Stakeholders | |
| Rock Art | |
| Stratigraphy | |
| Absolute Dating | |
| An Introduction to Stone Artifact Analysis | |
| Residues and Usewear | |
| Ceramics | |
| Animal Bones | |
| Plant Remains | |
| Molluscs and Other Shells | |
| Sediments | |
| Artifacts to the Modern World | |
| Historical Sources | |
| Producing the Record | |
| Index | |
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