Field Archaeology from Around the World - Ideas and Approaches (Paperback, 2015 ed.)

Field practice in archaeology varies greatly throughout the world, mainly because archaeological sites survive in very different ways in different counties. Many manuals see this as a problem - to be defeated by the imposition of standardised procedures. In this book we relish the variety of field practice, seeing it rather as the way the best archaeologists have responded creatively to the challenges of terrain, research objectives and the communities within which they work. While insisting on the highest levels of investigation, we celebrate the different designs, concepts, scientific detection methods and recording systems applied - so embracing standards, but not standardisation. The book is organised in four parts: Part 1 offers a summary of field procedures. Part 2 reviews the principal methods applied, above and below ground, and how the results are analysed. Part 3 illustrates the huge variety confronted by field workers with a series of exemplary commercial and academic projects enacted in downland, jungle, desert, permafrost, road schemes and towns. Approaches also differ according to the traditional methodologies that have evolved in particular countries. In Part 4 we give examples of some the strongest and oldest of those practised on four continents.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	SpringerBriefs in Archaeology
Release date:	November 2014
First published:	2015
Editors:	Martin Carver • Bisserka Gaydarska • Sandra Monton-Subias
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	245
Edition:	2015 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-09818-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-09818-7
Barcode:	9783319098180

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