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Description
How can you ensure that you are learning everything your artifacts have to teach you? Charles Ewen explores a variety of methods and techniques used to prepare, protect, and analyze artifacts once they are in the lab. In brief, user-friendly sections, he outlines the basic principles of identification, classification, quantification, data manipulation, and analysis. Students will find that Ewen's suggestions point out fruitful areas of analysis, yet do not dictate the researcher's approach. Examples drawn from 16th century Spanish sites in the Americas introduce students to the hows and whys of archaeological lab work.
Table of Contents
Part 2 Preface
Part 3 PART ONE
Part 4 Chapter 1: Introduction
Part 5 Chapter 2: Material Assemblage
Chapter 6 Artifacts / Ecofacts / Context / Prehistoric / Range of Material
Part 7 Chapter 3: Artifacts and Archaeological Theory
Chapter 8 Culture History / Processual / Post-processual / Cultural Resource Management
Part 9 PART TWO: Preparing for Analysis
Part 10 Chapter 4: Excavating Artifacts
Chapter 11 Recording Context / Collecting
Part 12 Chapter 5: Processing
Chapter 13 Artifact Check-In / Cleaning / Rough Sorting
Part 14 Chapter 6: Cataloging
Chapter 15 Accessioning / Inventory / Labeling
Part 16 Chapter 7: Further Preparation
Chapter 17 Reconstruction and Cross-Mending / Conservation / Photography
Part 18 PART THREE: Analysis
Part 19 Chapter 8: Materials Analysis
Chapter 20 Lithic / Ceramic / Metal / Glass / Organic Artifacts
Product details
Published | 16 Apr 2003 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 168 |
ISBN | 9780759116238 |
Imprint | AltaMira Press |
Series | Archaeologist's Toolkit |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Not designed as a step-by-step guide, this volume aims to stimulate the reader into thinking more deeply about artefacts.
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