Archaeology: Theories, Methods and PracticeThames & Hudson, 2008 - 656 pages This best-selling textbook on what archaeologists do and how they do it has now been completely revised. Structured according to the key questions that archaeologists ask themselves, it provides coverage of all the major developments in methods, science, technology, and theory.For the fifth edition, the voices of indigenous archaeologists have been included, and there is updated coverage of archaeological ethics and Cultural Resource Management. Recent findings are discussed, and there is expanded coverage of topics such as bioarchaeology and geoarchaeology. |
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... excavation can tell us a great deal about a relatively small area . Purposes of Excavation Excavation retains its central role in fieldwork because it yields the most reliable evidence for the two main kinds of information ...
... excavation can tell us a great deal about a relatively small area . Purposes of Excavation Excavation retains its central role in fieldwork because it yields the most reliable evidence for the two main kinds of information ...
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... excavation just what disturbance there has been and then decide how to interpret it . Clearly , adequate records must be made as excavation progresses if the task of interpretation is to be undertaken with any chance of success . In the ...
... excavation just what disturbance there has been and then decide how to interpret it . Clearly , adequate records must be made as excavation progresses if the task of interpretation is to be undertaken with any chance of success . In the ...
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... excavation - and the illustrations opposite show other techniques , e.g. for the excavation of burial mounds and cave sites - a dig is only as good as its methods of recovery and recording . Since excavation involves destruction of much ...
... excavation - and the illustrations opposite show other techniques , e.g. for the excavation of burial mounds and cave sites - a dig is only as good as its methods of recovery and recording . Since excavation involves destruction of much ...
Table des matières
Introduction | 9 |
How Did They Make and Use Tools? | 10 |
BOX FEATURES | 11 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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absolute dating activity Africa American analysis ancient animals Antiquity archae archaeological record archaeological sites archaeology artifacts bones Bronze Age burial buried calibration Calusa Çatalhöyük cave century Chapter chronology climate cognitive cognitive archaeology context copper cores culture deposits early environment environmental Europe evidence example excavation groups hominin human hunter-gatherer Ice Age identified important indicate individual interpretation isotope Kent Flannery landscape layers Lewis Binford London material Maya Mesoamerica modern monuments mounds Museum Neanderthal Neolithic objects obsidian Optical Dating organic Paleolithic past pattern percent period phytoliths plant Pleistocene pollen population pottery prehistoric preserved Press processual archaeology produced radiocarbon dates recent reconstruction region remains revealed Roman sample sediments sequence settlement social societies soil species stone tools stratigraphic structures surface survey symbolic techniques Teotihuacán tomb tree-ring Univ Upper Paleolithic York