Artifacts
How can you ensure that you are learning everything your artifacts have to teach you? 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, clas...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
AltaMira Press
2003.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Archaeologist's Toolkit. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34693853*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I Introduction; 1 Introduction; 2 The Material Assemblage; Artifacts; Ecofacts; Context; Range of Material Included; Prehistoric; 3 Artifacts and Archaeological Theory; Culture History; Processual; Postprocessual; Cultural Resource Management; Conclusion; Part II Preparing for Analysis; 4 Excavating Artifacts; Recording Context; Collecting; 5 Processing; Artifact Check-in; Cleaning; Rough Sorting; 6 Cataloging; Accessioning; Inventory; Labeling; 7 Further Preparation; Reconstruction and Cross-mending.
- ConservationPhotography; Part III Analysis; 8 Materials Analysis; Lithics; Ceramics; Metal; Glass; Organic Artifacts; 9 Classification; Objectives; Emic versus Etic; Classification Schemes; Quantification; Databases; Card Catalogs; Electronic Data; 10 Data Manipulation; Objectives; Statistical Analyses; Patterning; Dating; Spatial Analyses; Replication; 11 Specialized Analyses; Chronometric Dating; Faunal; Floral; Petrography; Bioarchaeology; 12 Curation; Artifacts; Project Records; Part IV Final Thoughts; 13 Conclusion; Future Directions; Conclusion; References; Index.
