Field archaeology from around the world [electronic resource] : ideas and approaches / Martin Carver, Bisserka Gaydarska, Sandra Montón-Subías, editors.
Carver, Martin, editor.; Gaydarska, Bisserka, editor.; Montón-Subías, San, editor.
2015
CC76 .F54 2014
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Field archaeology from around the world [electronic resource] : ideas and approaches / Martin Carver, Bisserka Gaydarska, Sandra Montón-Subías, editors.
ISBN
9783319098197 electronic book
3319098195 electronic book
9783319098180
3319098187
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09819-7
Published
Cham : Springer, 2015.
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English
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1 online resource (xxxii, 245 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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10.1007/978-3-319-09819-7 doi
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CC76 .F54 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
930.1
Summary
Field practice in archaeology varies greatly throughout the world, mainly because archaeological sites survive in very different ways in different counties. Many manuals see this as a problem - to be defeated by the imposition of standardised procedures. In this book we relish the variety of field practice, seeing it rather as the way the best archaeologists have responded creatively to the challenges of terrain, research objectives and the communities within which they work. While insisting on the highest levels of investigation, we celebrate the different designs, concepts, scientific detection methods and recording systems applied - so embracing standards, but not standardisation. The book is organised in four parts: Part 1 offers a summary of field procedures. Part 2 reviews the principal methods applied, above and below ground, and how the results are analysed. Part 3 illustrates the huge variety confronted by field workers with a series of exemplary commercial and academic projects enacted in downland, jungle, desert, permafrost, road schemes and towns. Approaches also differ according to the traditional methodologies that have evolved in particular countries. In Part 4 we give examples of some the strongest and oldest of those practised on four continents.
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Carver, Martin, editor.
Gaydarska, Bisserka, editor.
Montón-Subías, San, editor.
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SpringerBriefs in archaeology.
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Part 1: Methods
Chapter 1: Field Method in Archaeology: Overview
Chapter 2: Natural and Cultural Formation Processes
Chapter 3: Aerial archaeology
Chapter 4: Surface Survey: Method and Strategies
Chapter 5: Non-destructive Subsurface Mapping
Chapter 6: Excavation methods
Chapter 7: The Archaeological Study of Buildings
Chapter 8: Recording Fieldwork
Chapter 9: Spatial analysis
Chapter 10: Sequence and Date
Chapter 11: Ethno-archaeology: approaches to fieldwork
Chapter 12: Publication
Part 2: Projects
Chapter 13: Large scale landscape mapping in Yorkshire, England
Chapter 14: Seascape Survey on the Inner Ionian archipelago
Chapter 15: Archaeology in advance of motorway construction in Ireland
Chapter 16: Digging through permafrost in Siberia
Chapter 17: A tropical rainforest site in Belize Cynthia Robin
Chapter 18: Excavating a Rock shelter in north-west Greece Nena Galanidou
Chapter 19: Excavation and survey at Pinnacle Point, S Africa
Chapter 20: An upper Paleolithic living floor at Monruz, Switzerland
Chapter 21: On the beach in Remote Oceania
Chapter 22: Defining the Neolithic on the German loess
Chapter 23: Crannóg investigations in Scotland
Chapter 24: Investigating Tells in Syria
Chapter 25: Terp excavation in the Netherlands
Chapter 26: A terramare site on the Po Plain, Italy
Chapter 27: Hillfort investigations in the Czech Republic
Chapter 28: Excavating burials in Anglo-Saxon England
Chapter 29: A Burial mound dissection in Sweden
Chapter 30: Down a mine at Gavá, Spain
Chapter 31: Urban archaeology at Five Points New York City
Chapter 32: After the earthquake in Bam, Iran; archaeological and social investigations
Chapter 33: Ethnoarchaeology in the field: Learning from potters in Gilund, India
Part 3: Traditions
Chapter 34: America
Chapter 35: Poland
Chapter 36: Britain
Chapter 37: Scandinavia
Chapter 38: France
Chapter 39: China
Chapter 40: Japan
Chapter 41: Australia.

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