Archaeological science, methodology and techniques

The social processes involved in acquiring flint and stone in the Neolithic began to be considered over thirty years ago, promoting a more dynamic view of past extraction processes.

A synthetic treatment of the study of human remains from archaeological contexts for current and future generations of bioarchaeologists.

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.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology offers comprehensive perspectives on the origins and developments of the discipline of archaeology and the direction of future advances in the field.

This book includes a collection of papers, dedicated to Tjalling Waterbolk, on various topics, including palaeobotanical and archaeological research, prehistoric settlement in the province of Drenthe and the coastal areas of Groningen and Friesland, and radiocarbon dating of archaeological samples.

This first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker period (Early Bronze Age c.

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

For many people it is clear: the actions and beliefs of Ancient Israel are described in the Bible.

Macedonia is a region that provides its own intriguing questions due to its position on the fringe of the classical Greek world.

Drawing its numerous examples from Britain and beyond, Archaeological Investigation explores the procedures used in field archaeology travelling over the whole process from discovery to publication.

Most archaeologists and bioarchaeologists receive little or no training in the recognition of skeletal remains of fetuses, infants, and children.

"Dieses Buch schlägt eine Brücke zwischen Wissenschaft und Spiritualität!

This book is about two islands off the coast of Continental Europe, the seas that surrounded them, and the ways in which they were used over a period of three thousand years.

Originally published in 1946, this book presents in what can arguably be described as an unusual way, a slice of Scottish social life by applying to prehistory the principles of Marxism as practised by Soviet scholars of Russian prehistory.

The characterization of cultural heritage objects becomes increasingly important for conservation, restoration, dating, and authentication purposes.

After neo-evolutionism, how does one talk about the pre-modern state?

In recent years the bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands has seen enormous progress.

This book uniquely focuses on all aspects of archaeological soil micromorphology, based upon the authors'' joint sixty years of worldwide studies.

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The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology provides readers with an overview of the study of ancient disease.

This work provides a new, comprehensive update to the Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System (ASUDAS).

An international and multidisciplinary team addresses significant ethical questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the material remains of the past.

This book investigates the complex relationship between funerary treatment and wider social dynamics through a contextual analysis of human skeletal remains and associated mortuary data from Voudeni, an important Mycenaean (1450–1050 BC) chamber tomb cemetery in Achaea, Greece.

This book charts and explains how human activities have shaped and altered the development of soils in many parts of the world, taking advantage of five decades of soil analytical work in many archaeological landscapes from around the globe.

Surveys the archaeology of food: its methods and its themes (economics, politics, status, identity, gender, ethnicity, ritual, religion).

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.

This is an up-to-date account of the different kinds of information that can be obtained through the archaeological study of pottery.

Objects of adornment have been a subject of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic study for well over a century.

The violence and neglect suffered by children today is a common subject of media attention and much political hand-wringing, not just in Britain but in other parts of the western world.

In the wake of World War II, anatomist and anthropologist Mildred Trotter left the Midwest for a temporary post as the forensic anthropology expert for the Army in the Territory of Hawaii.

The Sacred Identity of Ephesos offers a full-length interpretation of one of the largest known bequests in the Classical world, made to the city of Ephesos in AD 104 by a wealthy Roman equestrian, and challenges some of the basic assumptions made about the significance of the Greek cultural renaissance known as the 'Second Sophistic'.

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

Archaeologists have focused a great deal of attention on explaining the evolution of village societies and the transition to a 'Neolithic' way of life.

The first step-by-step guide to the quantitative analysis of archaeological data using the R statistical computing system.

Why is it that in some places around the world communities live in villages, while elsewhere people live in isolated houses scattered across the landscape?

Digital tools are re-shaping the way archaeology is practiced and how it will be conducted in the future.

This book compiles a series of case studies derived from archaeological excavation in Greek cultural contexts in the Mediterranean (ca.

Ten years after the first volume, this book highlights the important contribution Raman spectroscopy makes as a non-destructive method for characterising the chemical composition of objects with archaeological and historical importance.

The analysis of tree-ring patterns, or dendrochronology, is a very exact science and an important dating technique.

Forensic archaeology is mostly defined as the use of archaeological methods and principles within a legal context.

The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis draws together topics and methodologies essential for the socio-cultural, mineralogical, and geochemical analysis of archaeological ceramic.

This book describes a novel machine-learning based approach   to answer some traditional archaeological problems, relating to archaeological site detection and site locational preferences.

For the one-term course in human evolution, paleoanthropology, or fossil hominins taught at the junior/senior level in departments of anthropology or biology.

At Home with the Aztecs provides a fresh view of Aztec society, focusing on households and communities instead of kings, pyramids, and human sacrifice.

This first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker period (Early Bronze Age c.

Scholars working in a number of disciplines – archaeologists, classicists, epigraphers, papyrologists, Assyriologists, Egyptologists, Mayanists, philologists, and ancient historians of all stripes – routinely engage with ancient textual sources that are either material remains from the archaeological record or historical products of other connections between the ancient world and our own.

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics investigates the archaeology of the contemporary world through the lens of its most distinguishing and problematic material.