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Archaeology in Practice : A Student Guide to Archaeological Analysis
ISBN: 9780470657164 | 0470657162
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 10/14/2013
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Fully updating the first edition of this essential guide for archaeology students, the editors bring together a set of core chapters by expert analysts, with extensive case studies from sites around the world. The text provides a solid introduction to archaeological analysis, focusing on post-excavation methods and materials. The volume's user-friendly structure has been organized according to material types such as animal bones, ceramics and stone artifacts, with a brand new chapter on analyzing human remains, as well as by thematic topics ran... MORE
Preface
1. Collaborating with Stakeholders
2. Stratigraphy
3. Sediments
4. Absolute Dating
5. Rock-Art
6. Stone Artifacts
7. Ceramics
8. Residues and Usewear
9. Animal Bones
10. Human remains
11. Plant Remains
12. Shell Middens and Mollusks
13. Artifacts of the Modern World
14. Historical Sources
15. Writing the Past
Alistair Paterson is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Western Australia. His research and teaching specialize in culture contact, historical archaeology in maritime and terrestrial contexts, European colonization, ancient rock art, and archaeological and historical methodology. He is the author of A Millennium of Cultural Contact (2011) and The Lost Legions: Culture Contact in Colonial Australia (2008).
Jane Balme is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Western Australia, where her research specializes in hunter-gatherer archaeology and the human colonization of Australia. Balme co-edited Gendered Archaeology (with Wendy Beck, 1995).
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