Archaeological science, methodology and techniques

Entanglement theory posits that the interrelationship of humans and objects is a delimiting characteristic of human history and culture.

This volume in the ICAZ series deals with the technical advances made over the last twenty years in the field of ageing and sexing animal bones.

A comprehensive introduction to the use of Geographical Information Systems as a research tool in archaeology.

Combines the latest results from archaeogenetics with archaeological evidence in order to produce a new narrative of European prehistory.

Over the years, archaeologists have developed a number of techniques for conserving historical artifacts for future generations.

Since its first publication, Field Archaeology: An Introduction has proved to be a key handbook for all those undertaking introductory courses in archaeology or volunteering on their first excavation.

An exploration of how the evolution of behavioral differences between humans and other primates affected the archaeological stone tool evidence.

Science in the Study of Ancient Egypt takes an innovative and integrated approach to the use of scientific techniques and methodologies within the study of ancient Egypt.

Homeless Heritage describes the process of using archaeological methodologies to collaboratively document how contemporary homeless people use and experience the city.

This book "Astronomy in Culture - Cultures of Astronomy" provides a cultural history of astronomy.

This volume investigates smaller and larger networks of contacts within and across the Aegean and nearby regions, covering periods from the Neolithic until Classical times (6000-323 BC).

Originally published in 1956, this concise book brought together wisdom from V.

For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate.

Edited by two pioneers in the field of sensory archaeology, this Handbook comprises a key point of reference for the ever-expanding field of sensory archaeology: one that surpasses previous books in this field, both in scope and critical intent.

New Guinea, and especially Papua New Guinea, is the last country in the world where ethnologists were able to closely observe, film and photograph the whole manufacturing chaînes opératoires of polished stone felling tools, from quarry extraction to finished tool use.

It considers research involving archaeological wood in all forms, ranging from fuelwood to ships'' timbers, from sites around the globe.

Memory can be both a horrifying trauma and an empowering resource.

The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion is the first volume dedicated to exploring ritual and religious practice in past societies from a variety of ‘environmental’ remains.

This is the first comprehensive guide to the archaeological uses of network science.

This major study reflects the increasing significance of careful model formation and testing in those academic subjects that are struggling from intuitive and aesthetic obscurantism toward a more disciplined and integrated approach to their fields of study.

The taxonomic and ecological identification of individual seeds and fruits of wild and cultivated plants is not always straightforward.

New research into the techniques of tablet weaving, sprang, braiding, knotting and lace is presented in this lavishly illustrated volume written by leading specialists from Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and USA.

A Silent Place: Death in Mycenaean Lakonia is the first book-length systematic study of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) burial tradition in south-eastern Peloponnese, Greece, and the first to comprehensively present and discuss all Mycenaean tombs and funerary contexts excavated and/or simply reported in the region from the 19th century to present day.

Drawing upon invasion biology and the latest archaeological, skeletal and environment evidence, From Arabia to the Pacific documents the migration of humans into Asia, and explains why we were so successful as a colonising species.

This innovative and important volume presents the archaeological and anthropological foundations of the landscape learning process.

A variety of techniques have been developed to provide scientific chronologies of archaeological sites and material culture.

Twenty years ago, John Cherry looked forward to the day when archaeological survey projects working around the Mediterranean region (the 'Frogs round the pond') would begin to compare and synthesize the information they had collected.

Archaeology is in crisis.

This volume presents the rich, but under-utilised and in parts inaccessible, archival historic aerial imagery, traditional photographs and those captured from satellites, for the exploration and management of cultural heritage.

How do archaeologists make knowledge?

Field survey has been making a major contribution to our understanding of the rural landscapes of the Mediterranean for nearly forty years.

Experimental archaeology is a new approach to the study of early man.

Archaeological Networks and Social Interaction focuses on conceptualisations of human interaction, human-thing entanglement, material affordances and agency.

The visual imagery of Neolithic Britain and Ireland is spectacular.

This book presents guidance, theory, methodologies, and case studies for analyzing tree rings to accurately date and interpret historic buildings and landscapes.

A fundamental component of the study of worked osseous objects is the identification of the raw materials chosen to make them.

A Silent Place: Death in Mycenaean Lakonia is the first book-length systematic study of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) burial tradition in south-eastern Peloponnese, Greece, and the first to comprehensively present and discuss all Mycenaean tombs and funerary contexts excavated and/or simply reported in the region from the 19th century to present day.

Industrial Archaeology (1972) presents an in-depth investigation of the nature, methods and materials of the archaeology of industry in the UK, from pre-Roman times to the late twentieth century.

These twenty papers dedicated to Mike Tite focus upon the interpretation of ancient artefacts and technologies, particularly through the application of materials analysis.

This book examines how the study of human-animal relations can help us interpret archaeological evidence.

Documentation, analysis, and explanation of culture change have long been goals of archaeology.

Social Transformations in Archaeology explores the relevance of archaeology to the study of long-term change and to the understanding of our contemporary world.

Artefacts made from skeletal materials since the Roman period were, before this book, neglected as a serious area of study.

Industrial archaeology is the study of early industrial buildings and machinery, particularly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Documentation, analysis, and explanation of culture change have long been goals of archaeology.

This book explores the history of interdisciplinary relationships between archaeology and other branches of knowledge in Europe and elsewhere.

This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues); in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation); and in their written, visual and exhibitionary practice - disseminated to a variety of academic and public audiences.