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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... region . So some sort of sample is required . But of what kind ? If the objective is to be able to draw reliable general conclusions about the whole site or region from the small areas sampled , one should try to make use of statistical ...
... region . So some sort of sample is required . But of what kind ? If the objective is to be able to draw reliable general conclusions about the whole site or region from the small areas sampled , one should try to make use of statistical ...
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... region , should offer adequate data about the smaller sites . However , random sampling of this kind could , in isolation , be misleading and subject to what Kent Flannery has called " the Teotihuacán effect . " Teotihuacán is the huge ...
... region , should offer adequate data about the smaller sites . However , random sampling of this kind could , in isolation , be misleading and subject to what Kent Flannery has called " the Teotihuacán effect . " Teotihuacán is the huge ...
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... region . Any metals smelted from these ores retain their isotopic composition unaltered . Thus , in a given region , provided that one has located the main sources of these minerals , and identified their distinctive lead isotope ratios ...
... region . Any metals smelted from these ores retain their isotopic composition unaltered . Thus , in a given region , provided that one has located the main sources of these minerals , and identified their distinctive lead isotope ratios ...
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