Chris Caple

Objects (eBook, ePUB)

Reluctant Witnesses to the Past

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An invaluable field text, this book examines nine detailed case studies to provide a brilliantly clear and comprehensible guide to the different methods and approaches (cultural, forensic, and technical) which can be used to study ancient artefacts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134403097
• Artikelnr.: 38250215

Autorenporträt

Chris Caple is Senior Lecturer in archaeological science and conservation at the University of Durham and author of Conservation Skills: Judgement, Method and Decision Making.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Investigating Objects: Theories and Approaches 2. Objects as Social
Indicators (Form, Decoration and Depiction) 3. Objects as Products
(Manufacture) 4. Objects and Materials as Trade Goods (Provenance) 5.
Objects as Functional Implements 6. Objects as Record (Information and
Education)