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This revised edition provides an up-to-date account of the many
different kinds of information that can be obtained through the
archaeological study of pottery. It describes the scientific and
quantitative techniques that are now available to the
archaeologist, and assesses their value for answering a range of
archaeological questions. It provides a manual for the basic
handling and archiving of excavated pottery so that it can be used
as a basis for further studies. The whole is set in the historical
context of the ways in which archaeologists have sought to gain
evidence from pottery and continue to do so. There are case studies
of several approaches and techniques, backed up by an extensive
bibliography.
The first overview of sampling for archaeologists for over twenty years, this manual offers a comprehensive account of the application of statistical sampling theory that is essential to modern archaeological practice, at a range of scales, from the regional to the microscopic. It includes a discussion of the relevance of sampling theory to archaeological interpretation, and considers its fundamental place in fieldwork and post excavation study. It demonstrates the vast range of techniques that are available, only some of which are widely used by archaeologists. A section on statistical theory also reviews the latest developments in the field, and the presentation is clear and user friendly. The formal mathematics is available in an appendix, which is cross-referenced with the main text.
This 1976 text is a pioneering study in the applications to
archaeology of modern statistical and quantitative techniques. The
authors show how these techniques, when sensitively employed, can
dramatically extend and refine the information presented in
distribution maps and other analyses of spatial relationships.
Techniques of interpretation 'by inspection' can now be made more
powerful and rigorous; at the same time interest has turned from
the examination of such sites and artefacts as 'things' to the
spatial relationships between such things, their relationships to
one another and to landscape features, soils and other resources.
This book was the first to apply the available techniques
systematically to the special problems and interests of
archaeologists. It also demonstrates to geographers and other
social scientists who may be familiar with analogous applications
in their own fields the exciting interdisciplinary developments
this facilitates, for example in studies of exchange networks,
trade and settlement patterns, and cultural history.
The first overview of sampling for archaeologists for over twenty years, this manual offers a comprehensive account of the application of statistical sampling theory that is essential to modern archaeological practice, at a range of scales, from the regional to the microscopic. It includes a discussion of the relevance of sampling theory to archaeological interpretation, and considers its fundamental place in fieldwork and post excavation study. It demonstrates the vast range of techniques that are available, only some of which are widely used by archaeologists. A section on statistical theory also reviews the latest developments in the field, and the presentation is clear and user friendly. The formal mathematics is available in an appendix, which is cross-referenced with the main text.
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