an introduction to themes, sites, methods and skills /
Jim Grant, Sam Gorin and Neil Fleming.
Fourth edition.
New York :
Routledge,
2015.
1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references (pages 638-652) and index.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Brief Contents; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Illustration acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; What is new?; How the book is structured; How to use this text; Conventions; Getting started; Archaeology and related subjects; Some key archaeological concepts; PART I UNDERSTANDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESOURCES; 1 ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE; How sites are found; Reconnaissance methods; Desktop study or 'desk-based assessment'; Historical documents; Maps; Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Analysis of inorganic materialsLithics; Ceramics; Metals; Analysis of organic materials; Organic artefacts; Soil; Faunal remains; Human remains; Key study: Eulau: human remains and Neolithic relationships; Plants; Invertebrates; How do archaeologists reconstruct ancient landscapes?; Key study: The decline of the Maya; Archaeometry; DNA analysis; Characterisation studies; X-ray fluorescence (XRF); Optical emission spectrometry; Atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS); Neutron activation analysis (NAA); Isotope analysis; You are what you eat; Carbon isotopes in the food chain.
Key study: Contrasting approaches: Empingham and East Kent Access RoadRemote sensing; Satellite survey; Lidar; Sonar; Exploring lost landscapes; 2 ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION; Approaches to archaeological excavation; Excavation: rescue or research?; Similarities and differences; To excavate or not?; Planning for excavation; Key study: The Chester Amphitheatre project; Excavation strategies; Why context is everything: the theory of stratification; How to dig?; Trenches; Test pits; Area excavation; Box-grid or quadrant systems; Key Study: Boxgrove; Recognising features and the planum method.
Key study: Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion (SCAPE)Oral accounts; Surface surveys; Surveying features; Key study: Surveying an abandoned landscape on St Kilda; Recording standing buildings; Sampling in archaeological fieldwork; Fieldwalking; Limitations of fieldwalking; Alternatives to fieldwalking; Geochemical prospection; Geophysical surveys; Resistivity survey; Magnetometer surveying; Caesium vapour (CV) magnetometers; Other non-invasive methods; Combining geophysics techniques at Binchester Fort; Aerial photography; Shadow marks; Cropmarks; Soil marks.
The process of excavationRecovery of environmental material; Sieving; Flotation; Soil sampling; Metal detection; On-site conservation; What records do archaeologists create?; Context sheets; Plans; Section drawings; Harris matrix; Photographs; Special cases; Archaeology of standing buildings; Wetland archaeology; Underwater archaeology; Urban archaeology; Excavating and recording human skeletons; Forensic archaeology; After excavation; 3 POST-EXCAVATION ANALYSIS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS; Post-ex; Initial processing and conservation; Visual examination and recording.
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This fully updated and revised edition of the best-selling title The Archaeology Coursebook is a guide for students studying archaeology for the first time. Including new methods and key studies in this fourth edition, it provides pre-university students and teachers, as well as undergraduates and enthusiasts, with the skills and technical concepts necessary to grasp the subject. The Archaeology Coursebook:introduces the most commonly examined archaeological methods, concepts and themes, and provides the necessary skills to understand themexplains how to interpret the material students may meet.
Ingram Content Group
9781317541103
Archaeology Coursebook : An Introduction to Themes, Sites, Methods and Skills.