Archaeology in Practice: a Student Guide to Archaeological Analyses

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Chapter Abstracts; Preface and Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1 Finding Sites; 2 Consulting Stakeholders; 3 Rock-Art; 4 Stratigraphy; 5 Absolute Dating; 6 An Introduction to Stone Artifact Analysis; 7 Residues and Usewear; 8 Ceramics; 9 Animal Bones; 10 Plant Remains; 11 Mollusks and Other Shells; 12 Sediments; 13 Artifacts of the Modern World; 14 Historical Sources; 15 Producing the Record; Appendix:getting things right; Further reading; References; Index.;Archaeology in Practice: A Student Guide to Archaeological Analyses offers students in archaeology laboratory courses a detailed and invaluable how-to manual of archaeological methods and provides insight into the breadth of modern archaeology. Written by specialists of material analyses, whose expertise represents a broad geographic range Includes numerous examples of applications of archaeological techniques Organized by material types, such as animal bones, ceramics, stone artifacts, and documentary sources, or by themes, such as dating, ethics, and report writing Written accessibly and amp.