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Appropriate for the upper level Historical Archaeology or Archaeological Field Methods courses taught in anthropology departments. This exercise book provides a cross-section of the diverse kinds of work that historical archaeologists actually do, and illustrates the different paradigms current in historical archaeology today.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPrentice Hall PTR
ISBN-100131760335
ISBN-139780131760332
eBay Product ID (ePID)63403
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
Publication NameDoing Historical Archaeology : Exercises Using Documentary, Oral and Material Evidence
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1994
SubjectArchaeology, Anthropology / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science
AuthorRussell J. Barber
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight10.6 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN93-039035
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal930.1
Table Of ContentIntroduction. I. WRITTEN AND ORAL SOURCES. 1. Source Analysis. 2. Toponymy. 3. Oral History. 4. Probate Inventories and Acculturation. 5. Integrating Documents and Archaeological Data. II. SPATIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATIGRAPHY. 6. Regional Settlement Pattern Analysis. 7. Analysis of Community Patterning. 8. Social Analysis of Architecture. 9. Stratigraphy. III. FOODWAYS. 10. Faunal Analysis. 11. Inferring Alcohol Usage from Artifacts. IV. THE ANALYSIS OF PORTABLE ARTIFACTS. 12. Artifact Identification. 13. Typology. 14. Pipestem Dating. 15. Mean Ceramic Dating. 16. Similiary Seriation. 17. Functional Analysis. V. CEMETERY STUDIES. 18. Frequency Seriation with Grave Marker Data. 19. Cemetery Demography. 20. Estimation of Social Status with Cemetery Data. 21. Inferring Ideology from Grave Markers. Appendix A. Planning Your Research. Appendix B. Sampling. Appendix C. Basic Descriptive Statistics and Other Relevant Arithmetic. Appendix D. Writing Your Reports. Appendix E. Glossary of Terms Used to Describe Cemeteries and Grave Markers.
SynopsisAppropriate for the upper level Historical Archaeology or Archaeological Field Methods courses taught in anthropology departments. This exercise book provides a cross-section of the diverse kinds of work that historical archaeologists actually do, and illustrates the different paradigms current in historical archaeology today.