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Drawing archaeological finds: a handbook
Nick Griffiths
Anne Jenner
Christine Wilson
Offers assistance in all types of finds illustration, beginning with an outline of general principles and the equipment needed for a drawing office. The various materials to be drawn - copper and its alloys, iron and steel, stone, etc-are then examined briefly and there are whole chapters on ceramic vessels, glass vessels, and flint and stone tools. Mounting and finishing are then covered and there is a bibliography.
1990
Excavations at the monastic site in Iona 1964 to 1974
Richard Reece
Records excavations in advance of building activity close to the Abbey buildings, and also forty skeletons (including females) from the Martyrs' Bay site. Pollen was sampled from the Vallum ditch; there was a lime-burning clamp of ?early monastic date; a 12th century bake- and brewhouse over enigmatic timber structures; and animal bones from a midden. Sixteen 14C dates raise some problems, but the sequence runs from pre-8th century through burnt (?Viking) levels to a possibly 14th century burial. Difficulties of 'reconciling' archaeological and historical information are dilated on.
1981
Legionary recruitment and veteran settlement during the principate
John C Mann
1983
Pottery and the archaeologist
Papers from a conference on different approaches to pottery assemblages. R F Jones (pp 1-5) outlines the potential of pottery for studies other than dating. I A Hodder (7-23) uses pottery from Kenya to identify groups and examine social constraints affecting distributions, although M Spriggs and D Miller (23-34) suggest from ethnographic work in E Indonesia that some factors affecting distributions are not discernible archaeologically. M Millett (35-48) analyses S English pottery as a functional artefact to reconstruct site activities, with special reference to Portchester fort. Problems of urban pottery are discussed by P Crummy and R Terry (49-60), the effects of residual pottery (and coins) on seriation techniques, and C R Orton (61-71) on pottery records for metropolitan sites. D F Williams (73-6) evaluates the potential of petrological analysis; M Millett (77-80) discusses the various ways of quantifying pottery. R Reece (81-5) in conclusion argues for an agnostic approach to assemblages to prevent historically biased inferences (eg was the Portchester occupation military?) D G
1979
Research problems in zooarchaeology
The papers include a wide range of topics: vertebrates and invertebrates, the validity of current study methods, the possibilities for new approaches, and the problems and potential of using modern comparative data. The relevance to archaeology of micro-evolutionary studies in animals ('Viking mice' etc) is demonstrated by R J Berry (1-8) while papers on land mollusca are contributed by K D Thomas (9-18) and R A D Cameron (19-23) respectively. The value of insect remains is discussed by H K Kenward (25-38) & M Girling (85-90), while mites are treated by S Denford (77-83) and fish by A Wheeler (69-75). Two papers are on small mammal studies: Brothwell & R Jones (47-57) and the multivariate statistical approach of I Graham & A Saunders (59-67: Bacon Hole material). Baynard's Castle excavations prompted P L Armitage to set up a system for the processing of animal data (39-45). The more general papers follow. Brothwell covers some neglected aspects of growth and demography of mammals (91-6). The interpretation of epiphyseal fusion data is considercd by J P N Watson (97-101), and J R Baker (107-12) examines the differential diagnosis of bone disease. The attrition of mammal teeth (as used in age estimation) is covered by A Grant (103-6), and B Noddle (133-41) discusses some minor skeletal differences in sheep. C Grigson calls for a standardized method of presenting bone reports which would allow intersite comparisons (121-8), and A J Legge (129-32) on 'archaeozoology or zooarchaeology' calls for genuine interdisciplinary understanding. H Lownie contributes a paper on domestication of S American mammals (113-20), and comparative collections for zooarchaeology are considered by J Coy (143-5).
1978
Roman military diplomas 1954-77
Margaret M Roxan
Brings together seventy-eight diplomas, four undated fragments and a possible tabula honestae missionis, (for the most part already published) with texts, notes and indexes, including one of all attested witnesses to diplomas. A number of units with British titles appear; M Minicius Marcellinus is unlikely to be the primuspilus from Lincoln; Sextus Iulius Severus was governor of Dacia Superior from 120 to 126; the Cirencester fragment is given; a Britto is attested in a unit with a British title serving abroad. BD
1978
Roman military diplomas 1977 to 1984 (RMD II)
Margaret M Roxan
Addition of 54 diplomas to those previously published (RMD I) with bibliography, revised chronology, appendices on conservation and display of diplomas and by John Mann on Palmyrene diplomas and the Three Daciae.
1985
Supplementary gazetteer of find-spots of Celtic coins in Britain, 1977
Colin Haselgrove
Printed as a supplement to D F Allen's 1960 survey, and based on the information he had collected at the time of his death in June 1975, this work adds some hundreds of find-spots, including many from stratified excavation contexts (which provide the best hope of allowing progress in understanding the significance of the adoption of coinage in Britain). See also reprint of S S Frere (ed), Problems of the Iron Age in Southern Britain, Inst Archaeol Occas Pap, 11, 1960: 1978 reprint price £7.50.
1978
The identification of slags from archaeological sites
Hans-Gert Bachmann
Intended 'to introduce archaeologists to finds of technological significance and to stress the aspects essential for a close association between archaeology and early technology, in particular archaeometallurgy'. Chapters begin with the field identification of slags and lead on to laboratory investigations (the province of the scientist, though the archaeologist must interpret the scientist's results). Catalogue of selected non-metallurgical slags, copper slags, tin, lead slags, speiss, and iron slags from smelting and smithing.
1982
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