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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... organic remains , perhaps by preventing the activity of destructive micro - organisms . The prehistoric copper mines of central and southeast Europe have many remains of wood , leather , and textiles . Organic packing material found ...
... organic remains , perhaps by preventing the activity of destructive micro - organisms . The prehistoric copper mines of central and southeast Europe have many remains of wood , leather , and textiles . Organic packing material found ...
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... organic remains is poor . Wetland sites include all those found in lakes , swamps , marshes , fens , and peat bogs . In these situations organic materials are effectively sealed in a wet and airless ( anaerobic or , more correctly ...
... organic remains is poor . Wetland sites include all those found in lakes , swamps , marshes , fens , and peat bogs . In these situations organic materials are effectively sealed in a wet and airless ( anaerobic or , more correctly ...
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... organic matter . The organic matter comes from micrometer - sized airborne plant debris that accumulates on rock surfaces and is thus metabolized and cemented into the varnish by bacterial action . Less than 1 percent of the varnish is ...
... organic matter . The organic matter comes from micrometer - sized airborne plant debris that accumulates on rock surfaces and is thus metabolized and cemented into the varnish by bacterial action . Less than 1 percent of the varnish is ...
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