Handbook of archaeological sciences

Metadata

Title:	Handbook of archaeological sciences
Number of Pages:	782
Publication Type:	Monograph Chapter
Abstract:	The volume is intended to bring together a substantial overview of the sciences in archaeology. It is organised under eight broad headings: dating, quaternary palaeoenvironments, human palaeobiology, developments in biomolecular archaeology, resource exploitation, archaeological prospection, conservation science in the archaeological context and statistical and computer applications. The contributing specialists bring together in each chapter the basic science and the relevance of this science to the overall goal of understanding humans in the past. Contributions include
Issue Editor:	Mark M Pollard Don R Brothwell
Publisher:	John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Year of Publication:	2001
ISBN:	0-470-01476-8
Note:	Is Portmanteau: 1
Source:	BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
Created Date:	10 Aug 2006

Chapter Title	Author / Editor	Page Start/End
Introduction: archaeological science: a current perspective	Mark M Pollard Don R Brothwell	0
Section 1. Dating.; Overview -- dating in archaeology; past, present a...	Robert E M Hedges	3 - 8
Quaternary geochronological frameworks	J J Lowe	9 - 21
Radiocarbon dating	R E Taylor	23 - 34
Dendrochronology and other applications of tree-ring studies in archaeology	Peter I Kuniholm	35 - 46
Trapped charge dating (ESR, TL, OSL)	Rainer Grün	47 - 62
Uranium-series dating	A G Latham	63 - 72
Magnetic properties and archaeomagnetism	Rob Sternberg	73 - 79
Obsidian hydration dating	W R Ambrose	81 - 92
In situ cosmogenic isotopes: principles and potential for archaeology	F M Stuart	93 - 100
Section 2. Quaternary palaeoenvironments.; Overview -- environmental reconstruction	Kevin J Edwards	103 - 110
Modelling Qaternary environments	Alicia Wise	111 - 120
Insects as palaeoenvironmental indicators	M Robinson	121 - 133
Non-marine mollusca and archaeology	R C Preece	135 - 145
Mammals as climatic indicators	Derek W Yalden	147 - 154
Peat stratigraphy and climate change	Peter G Langdon Keith E Barber	155 - 166
Archaeology and soil micromorphology	I A Simpson Donald A Davidson	167 - 177
Taphonomic investigations	Rebecca A Nicholson	179 - 190
Global biogeochemical cycles and isotope systematics --; how the world works	Lyn Wilson Mark M Pollard	191 - 201
Section 3. Human palaeobiology.; Overview -- human palaeobiology: then and now	Jane E Buikstra	205 - 211
Pleistocene and Holocene hominid evolution	Don R Brothwell	213 - 218
Human palaeobiology as human ecology	H Schutkowski	219 - 224
Disease ecology	Donald J Ortner	225 - 235
Assessment of age at death and sex in the adult human skeleton	Margaret Cox	237 - 247
The study of preserved human tissue	Michael R Zimmerman	249 - 257
Palaeodemography	Andrew T Chamberlain	259 - 268
Body tissue chemistry and palaeodiet	Judith C Sealy	269 - 279
Cremated bone	Julie M Bond Jacqueline I McKinley	281 - 292
Section 4. Biomolecular archaeology.; Overview -- archaeological science in the biomolec...	Mark M Pollard	295 - 299
Ancient DNA	Terence (Terry) A Brown	301 - 311
Blood residues in archaeology	M T Wilson P R Smith	313 - 322
Survival and interpretation of archaeological proteins	E Waite Matthew J Collins Oliver E Craig R J Sokol Angela M Gernaey	323 - 329
Lipids in archaeology	Stephanie Dudd M J Lockheart Susan Jim Richard P Evershed	331 - 349
Archaeological microbiology	Gisela Grupe	351 - 358
Section 5. Biological resource exploitation.; Overview -- at the beginning of the task: the arch...	Charles F W Higham	361 - 363
Biological resource exploitation: problems of theory and method	Paul Halstead Michael Charles	365 - 378
Human impact on vegetation	Lisa Dumayne-Peaty	379 - 392
Archaeobotany and the transition to agriculture	Susan Colledge M K Jones	393 - 401
Dietary evidence from the coprolites and the intestinal contents of ancient humans	Timothy G Holden	403 - 413
Vertebrate resources	Terry P O'Connor Andrew K G Jones	415 - 425
The exploitation of invertebrates and invertebrate products	Marcello A Mannino Kenneth D Thomas	427 - 440
Section 6. Inorganic resource exploitation.; Overview -- materials study in archaeology	M S Tite	443 - 448
Ceramic petrology, clay geochemistry and ceramic production -- from technology to the mind of the potter	Ian K Whitbread	449 - 459
Lithic exploitation and use	Mark Edmonds	461 - 470
Glass and glazes	Julian Henderson	471 - 482
Science, speculation and the origins of extractive metallurgy	David Killick	483 - 492
Pyrotechnology	J G McDonnell	493 - 505
The provenance hypothesis	Mark M Pollard Lyn Wilson	507 - 517
Section 7. Archaeological prospection.; Overview -- the role and practice of archaeologica...	Andrew David	521 - 527
Surface collection techniques in field archaeology: theory and practice	Tony James Wilkinson	529 - 541
Geophysical prospection in archaeology	Yasushi Nishimura	543 - 553
Remote sensing	Daniel Donoghue	555 - 563
Geochemical prospecting	Carl Heron	565 - 573
Archaeological data integration	Martijn Leusen, van	575 - 583
Section 8. Burial, decay and archaeological conservation.; Overview -- degradation, investigation and preserv...	Chris Caple	587 - 593
Defining the burial environment	R Raiswell	595 - 603
Electrochemical processes in metallic corrosion	L S Selwyn Michael B McNeil	605 - 614
Post-depositional changes in archaeological ceramics and glasses	Ian C Freestone	615 - 625
The deterioration of organic materials	Janey Cronyn	627 - 636
The deterioration of bone	Andrew R Millard	637 - 647
Maximizing the life span of archaeological objects	David Watkinson	649 - 659
Section 9. Statistical and computational methods.; Overview -- numbers, models, maps: computers and a...	Robert D Drennan	663 - 670
Spatial information and archaeology	Mark Gillings	671 - 683
Multivariate analysis in archaeology	Michael J Baxter	685 - 694
Applications of the Bayesian statistical paradigm	Caitlin E Buck	695 - 702
Animal bone quantification	Terry P O'Connor	703 - 710
Quantification of broken objects	Michael J Shott	711 - 721
Numerical modelling in archaeology	M W Lake	723 - 732
Synthesizing analytical data --; spatial results from pottery provenance investigat...	Hector Neff	733 - 747

n.a. (2001). Handbook of archaeological sciences. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Follow us