Philip Barker

Techniques of Archaeological Excavation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Immediately hailed as the standard work and one of the most widely used archaeological field manuals, this survey of current excavation techniques, now in its third edition, remains an in-dispensible guide for archaeologists. his text has been written by an experienced excavator about the inadequacies of excavation techniques and the possible ways of refining them and should serve as a valuable introduction to the subtleties and spirit of modern archaeology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780415151528
• ISBN-10: 041515152X
• Artikelnr.: 21198476

Autorenporträt

Philip Barker is one of Britain's leading excavators. Formerly reader in Archaeology at the University of Birmingham, he is now an archaeological consultant.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Prefaces
1. Introduction: the unrepeatable experiment
2. How archaeological sites are formed
3. The development of excavation techniques
4. Pre-excavation research
5. Problems and strategies
6. The processes of excavation
7. Rescue and salvage excavation
8. Recognizing and recording the evidence
9. The recording of pottery and small finds
10. The interpretation of the evidence
11. Scientific aids
12. Synthesis: the history of the site
Glossary
Bibliography
Index