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Method & Theory

Extracting Meaning from Ploughsoil Assemblages
edited by Riccardo Francovich and Helen Patterson
Assessments of the Past, Strategies for the Future (S. Alcock). Methodology: Methods of Collection, Recording and Quantification (D. Mattingly); Cultural Depositional Processes andPost-depossitional Problems (J. Taylor); Ceramics and the Site (Vincent Gaffney); What Are we Counting For? (Elizabeth Fentress); Dating, Quantifying and Utilizing Pottery from Surface Survey (Martin Millett); Towards an ...
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The Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains
edited by Rebecca Gowland and Christopher Knüsel
Human bones form the most direct link to understanding how people lived in the past, who they were and where they came from. The interpretative value of human skeletal remains (within their burial context) in terms of past social identity and organisation is awesome, but was, for many years, underexploited by archaeologists. The nineteen papers in this edited volume are an attempt to redress this by marrying the cultural aspects of burial with ...
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CAD Guide to Good Practice
by Harrison Eiteljorg II, Kate Fernie, Jeremy Huggett, Damian Robinson
From archaeological field work to heritage organisations and museums, increasingly CAD files and three-dimensional CAD models comprise a unique component of our digital archives - and one which it may not be possible to reproduce on paper. This Guide offers a basic description of computer-aided drafting or computer-aided design (CAD) software, discussions on the use of CAD in a variety of situations, descriptions of data acquisition ...
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Experiment and Design: aological Studies in Honour of John Coles
edited by A. F. Harding
These essays, in honour of John Coles, reflect his interests in experimental archaeology and in the exploration of wetland sites. Contents include: Palaeolithic Archaeology: Radiocarbon dating and the origins of anatomically modern populations in Europe (P Mellars); The Chauvet cave dates ( J Clottes); The archaeology of Scotland: The Hidden landscape: the Neolithic of Tayside (G J Barclay); The stony limits - rock carvings ...
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Past Bodies: Body-Centered Research in Archaeology
edited by Dusan Boric and John Robb
Archaeology often struggles in envisioning real people behind the world of material objects it studies. Even when dealing with skeletal remains archaeologists routinely reduce them to long lists of figures and attributes. Such a fragmentation of past subjects and their bodies, if analytically necessary, is hardly satisfactory. While material culture is the main archaeological proxy to real people in the past, the absence of past bodies has been ...
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Mesolithic Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century
edited by Nicky Milner and Peter Woodman
The term 'Mesolithic' was born in the nineteenth century from the need to label a 'hiatus' period and was not generally accepted as a useful term by many scholars until around fifty years later. It has been championed by some, but still concerns others because of the difficulty of defining what it represents. This volume highlights the enthusiasm for Mesolithic studies in the 21st century and the feeling that there is a need to explore the many ...
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Archaeology and Anthropology: Understanding Similarity, Exploring Difference
edited by Duncan Garrow and Thomas Yarrow
This book focuses on the relationship between the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. Both disciplines arose from a common project: a desire to understand human social and cultural diversity. However, in recent years, archaeologys interest in anthropology has remained largely unreciprocated. To date, the causes and consequences of this imbalance have received little attention, particularly within anthropology.

Including papers ...
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Material Mnemonics: Everyday Memory in Prehistoric Europe
edited by Katina T. Lillios and Vasileios Tsamis
How did ancient Europeans materialise memory? Material Mnemonics: Everyday Practices in Prehistoric Europe provides a fresh approach to the archaeological study of memory. Drawing on case studies from the British Isles, Scandinavia, central Europe, Greece, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula that date from the Neolithic through the Iron Age, the book's authors explore the implications of our understanding of the past when memory and mnemonic ...
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The Archaeology of the Dead: Lectures in Archaeothanatology
by Henri Duday, translated by Anna Maria Cipriani and revised by John Pearce
Henri Duday is Director of Research for CNRS at the University of Bordeaux. The Archaeology of the Dead is based on an intensive specialist course in burial archaeology given by Duday in Rome in November 2004. The primary aim of the project was to contribute to the development of common procedures for excavation, data collection and study of Roman cemeteries of the imperial period. Translated into English by Anna Maria Cipriani and John ...
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From Mine to Microscope: Advances in the Study of Ancient Technology
edited by Andrew Shortland, Ian C Freestone and Thilo Rehren
These twenty papers dedicated to Mike Tite focus upon the interpretation of ancient artefacts and technologies, particularly through the application of materials analysis. Instruments from the human eye to mass spectrometry provide insights into a range of technologies ranging from classical alum extraction to Bronze Age wall painting, and cover materials as diverse as niello, flint, bronze, glass and ceramic. Ranging chronologically from the ...
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