Stephen Weiner

Microarchaeology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Microarchaeology is about that part of archaeological records not seen by the naked eye, but revealed with instrumentation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 786g
• ISBN-13: 9780521705844
• ISBN-10: 0521705843
• Artikelnr.: 28532666

Autorenporträt

Stephen Weiner is Director of the Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. He is the author, with Heinz A. Lowenstam, of On Biomineralization and has published more than 300 scientific journal articles.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Archaeology, archaeological science and microarchaeology
2. Information embedded in the microscopic record
3. Completeness of the archaeological record
4. Common mineral components of the archaeological record
5. Biological materials: bones and teeth
6. Biological materials: phytoliths, diatoms, eggshells, otoliths and mollusk shells
7. Reconstructing pyrotechnological processes
8. Biological molecules and macromolecules: protected niches
9. Ethnoarchaeology of the microscopic record: learning from the present
10. Absolute dating: assessing the quality of a date
11. Reading the microscopic record on-site
12. Infrared spectroscopy in archaeology.