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Archaeology Coursebook: An Introduction to Themes, Sites, Methods and Skills 4th edition [Kõva köide]

, (Principal Examiner in A Level Archaeology; Chief Examiner in A Level Archaeology and Christs Hospital, Horsham, UK), (Chief Examiner in A Level Archaeology and Assistant Principal at Cirencester College, UK)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 692 pages, kõrgus x laius: 246x174 mm, kaal: 1927 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 12-Oct-2015
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138132934
  • ISBN-13: 9781138132931
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Hardback, 692 pages, kõrgus x laius: 246x174 mm, kaal: 1927 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 12-Oct-2015
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138132934
  • ISBN-13: 9781138132931
Teised raamatud teemal:
This fully updated and revised edition of the best-selling title The Archaeology Coursebook is a guide for students studying archaeology for the first time. Including new methods and key studies in this fourth edition, it provides pre-university students and teachers, as well as undergraduates and enthusiasts, with the skills and technical concepts necessary to grasp the subject.

The Archaeology Coursebook:











introduces the most commonly examined archaeological methods, concepts and themes, and provides the necessary skills to understand them





explains how to interpret the material students may meet in examinations





supports study with key studies, key sites, key terms, tasks and skills development





illustrates concepts and commentary with over 400 photos and drawings of excavation sites, methodology and processes, tools and equipment





provides an overview of human evolution and social development with a particular focus upon European prehistory.

Reflecting changes in archaeological practice and with new key studies, methods, examples, boxes, photographs and diagrams, this is definitely a book no archaeology student should be without.
Acknowledgements xxi
Illustration acknowledgements xxiii
Introduction xxvii
What is new?
xxvii
How the book is structured
xxviii
How to use this text
xxix
Conventions
xxix
Getting started
xxxi
Archaeology and related subjects
xxxi
Some key archaeological concepts
xxxii
Part I Understanding Archaeological Resources 1(188)
1 Archaeological Reconnaissance
3(40)
How sites are found
3(1)
Reconnaissance methods
4(1)
Desktop study or 'desk-based assessment'
4(9)
Historical documents
7(1)
Maps
8(2)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
10(3)
Key study: Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion (SCAPE)
11(2)
Oral accounts
13(1)
Surface surveys
13(5)
Surveying features
13(4)
Key study: Surveying an abandoned landscape on St Kilda
15(2)
Recording standing buildings
17(1)
Sampling in archaeological fieldwork
17(1)
Fieldwalking
18(6)
Limitations of fieldwalking
21(1)
Alternatives to fieldwalking
21(3)
Geochemical prospection
24(1)
Geophysical surveys
24(5)
Resistivity survey
25(1)
Magnetometer surveying
26(1)
Caesium vapour (CV) magnetometers
27(1)
Other non-invasive methods
28(1)
Combining geophysics techniques at Binchester Fort
29(1)
Aerial photography
29(7)
Shadow marks
32(1)
Cropmarks
32(1)
Soil marks
33(3)
Key study: Contrasting approaches: Empingham and East Kent Access Road
35(1)
Remote sensing
36(4)
Satellite survey
40(1)
Lidar
40(1)
Sonar
40(1)
Exploring lost landscapes
40(3)
2 Archaeological Excavation
43(45)
Approaches to archaeological excavation
43(1)
Excavation: rescue or research?
43(7)
Similarities and differences
44(1)
To excavate or not?
45(1)
Planning for excavation
46(4)
Key study: The Chester Amphitheatre project
48(2)
Excavation strategies
50(6)
Why context is everything: the theory of stratification
52(4)
How to dig?
56(6)
Trenches
56(1)
Test pits
56(1)
Area excavation
57(1)
Box-grid or quadrant systems
57(5)
Key Study: Boxgrove
59(3)
Recognising features and the planum method
62(1)
The process of excavation
62(2)
Recovery of environmental material
64(4)
Sieving
64(1)
Flotation
65(1)
Soil sampling
65(1)
Metal detection
66(1)
On-site conservation
66(2)
What records do archaeologists create?
68(9)
Context sheets
68(1)
Plans
68(5)
Section drawings
73(1)
Harris matrix
74(1)
Photographs
74(3)
Special cases
77(10)
Archaeology of standing buildings
77(1)
Wetland archaeology
78(2)
Underwater archaeology
80(2)
Urban archaeology
82(1)
Excavating and recording human skeletons
83(2)
Forensic archaeology
85(2)
After excavation
87(1)
3 Post-Excavation Analysis And Archaeological Materials
88(54)
Post-ex
88(1)
Initial processing and conservation
89(3)
Visual examination and recording
91(1)
Analysis of inorganic materials
92(11)
Lithics
92(3)
Ceramics
95(5)
Metals
100(3)
Analysis of organic materials
103(24)
Organic artefacts
103(2)
Soil
105(1)
Faunal remains
106(5)
Human remains
111(9)
Key study: Eulau: human remains and Neolithic relationships
116(4)
Plants
120(5)
Invertebrates
125(2)
How do archaeologists reconstruct ancient landscapes?
127(2)
Key study: The decline of the Maya
128(1)
Archaeometry
129(2)
DNA analysis
130(1)
Characterisation studies
131(3)
X-ray fluorescence (XRF)
131(1)
Optical emission spectrometry
132(1)
Atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS)
132(1)
Neutron activation analysis (NAA)
132(1)
Isotope analysis
133(1)
You are what you eat
134(2)
Carbon isotopes in the food chain
135(1)
Organic residue analysis
136(4)
Key study: Lipids, cheese and the European Dairying Project
138(2)
Is archaeology a science?
140(2)
After analysis
140(2)
4 Understanding Dating In Archaeology
142(22)
Periods in archaeology
143(2)
Historical dating
144(1)
Relative dating
145(5)
Typological dating and serration
145(2)
Diffusion and culture history
147(1)
Geoarchaeological, pollen and faunal dating
148(1)
Obsidian hydration
148(1)
Chemical dating of bones
149(1)
Absolute or chronometric dating
150(14)
Dendrochronology (tree ring dating)
150(2)
Deep-sea cores, ice cores and varves
152(2)
Radiocarbon dating
154(3)
Thermoluminescence (TL)
157(2)
Potassium—argon (K-Ar) dating
159(1)
Other absolute dating techniques
160(1)
A new dating revolution? The application of Bayesian statistical analysis
160(1)
Recovering the history of the Neolithic
160(5)
Key study: Dating the destruction of Minoan Crete
162(2)
5 Archaeological Interpretation
164(25)
Middle-range theory
164(1)
How did it get like this?
165(8)
Formation processes
166(2)
How does archaeology get buried?
168(1)
Post-depositional processes
169(2)
Taphonomy
171(1)
Special preservation
171(1)
Recovery processes
172(1)
Making sense of the data
173(14)
Analysing spatial and temporal patterns
175(1)
Site or palimpsest?
176(1)
Use of analogies
177(1)
Sources of archaeological analogies
178(1)
Analogies imported from other disciplines
178(1)
Historical accounts
178(1)
Ethnography or anthropology
180(1)
Ethnoarchaeology
180(1)
Experimental archaeology
181(1)
Taphonomic studies
186(1)
Why do archaeologists offer different interpretations of the past?
187(2)
Part II Studying Themes In Archaeology 189(374)
6 Human Origins
191(35)
A changing family tree
191(2)
How did humans evolve?
193(3)
The Australopithecines
194(1)
Homo habilis
195(1)
What is the earliest evidence for complex social behaviour?
196(2)
Home bases or palimpsests
197(1)
Out of Africa I
198(14)
Homo erectus and contemporary species
199(1)
How early did hunting begin?
200(1)
Ice Age adaptation: the Neanderthals
201(1)
Anatomically modern humans
202(10)
Key study: The Vezere valley and Neanderthal replacement
203(9)
Out of Africa II vs multiregionalism
212(3)
The candelabra and multiregion models
212(1)
Replacement and assimilation models
213(1)
New discoveries and methods
214(1)
Was there a 'creative explosion' and when did it happen?
215(11)
A great leap forward?
217(1)
Gradual change
218(11)
Key study: Dolni Vestonice and the Moravian Gate
218(8)
7 Sites And People In The Landscape: Settlement Archaeology
226(67)
What does the archaeology of settlement cover?
226(3)
People and the landscape
229(16)
Key study: Lewis Binford and Nunamiut ethnoarchaeology
229(1)
Seasonal patterns of movement
229(9)
Key study: Oronsay, Sand and seasonal movement around the Inner Hebrides
233(5)
The impact of climate change since the Ice Age in northern Europe
238(4)
Human impact on the landscape
242(1)
Researching changes in the landscape
243(2)
Spatial distribution: the pattern of sites within the landscape
245(7)
Site catchment analysis
245(2)
GIS and satellite-based spatial surveys
247(1)
Geometric models
248(4)
Explaining the location of archaeological sites
252(4)
Key study: Head Smashed In
253(3)
Settlement hierarchies
256(4)
Key study: Minoan settlement hierarchy
256(4)
The social landscape: territory and boundaries
260(4)
Territorial markers
261(3)
Identifying the function(s) of archaeological sites
264(9)
How are different types of activity identified on archaeological sites?
265(8)
Key study: Star Carr revisited: changing interpretations of a classic site
267(6)
Interpreting the use of space on archaeological sites
273(8)
Room interpretation at Skara Brae
274(1)
Access analysis at Gurness
275(6)
Key study: Pincevent, Mask and site structure
278(3)
Understanding structures
281(3)
The first buildings
281(1)
Sources of analogies
281(3)
The development of complex settlements
284(9)
Key study: Mashkan Shapir
286(2)
Key study: Tracing the early development of Ipswich
288(5)
8 Economics A: Foraging To Farming-the Exploitation Of Plants And Animals
293(74)
Subsistence: how did people in the past feed themselves?
294(1)
The exploitation of animals
294(3)
Identifying the nature of exploitation: interpreting bone assemblages
294(3)
Tracing developments in human exploitation of animals
297(8)
Scavenging
297(1)
Selective hunting and specialisation in the Upper Palaeolithic
298(6)
Key study: Stellmoor and specialised reindeer hunting
298(6)
Unselective hunting
304(1)
Understanding foraging strategies
305(11)
Optimal foraging strategy
305(3)
Broad spectrum foraging
308(8)
Key study: Tybrind Vig and late Mesolithic foragers in the Baltic
309(7)
Herding and the domestication of animals
316(5)
What is domestication?
316(1)
Where did domestication take place?
317(1)
Pastoralists
318(3)
The exploitation of plants
321(3)
The Neolithic revolution
321(1)
What is plant domestication?
322(2)
Explaining the change to food production
324(6)
Early theories of domestication
324(1)
Demographic theories of domestication
325(1)
Social theories of domestication
325(2)
Climate change and extended domestication theories
327(3)
Key study: Ohalo II and the Palaeolithic origins of food production
328(2)
Identifying the shift to food production
330(6)
Identifying morphological changes
330(1)
Contradictory evidence
331(5)
Key study: Tell Abu Hureyra and the transition to farming
332(4)
Identifying the spread of agriculture
336(21)
Understanding the spread of agriculture across Europe
338(1)
The first European farmers
338(1)
The spread of farming into central Europe
338(8)
Key study: Karanovo and early farming villages in the Balkans
339(7)
The Linearbandkeramik (LBK)
346(7)
Key study: Vaihingen and pioneer farmers in central Europe
350(3)
Early farming in the British Isles
353(2)
Europe's earliest field system
355(2)
A secondary products revolution?
357(3)
Identifying the SPR in the archaeological record
358(2)
Agricultural intensification
360(3)
Irrigation
360(1)
Drainage and colonising marginal land
361(1)
Soil fertility
362(1)
Agricultural specialisation
362(1)
Storage
363(3)
Different forms of storage
365(1)
The impact of agriculture
366(1)
9 Economics B: Extraction, Manufacture, Material Culture And Exchange
367(51)
Acquisition of stone and minerals
367(11)
Grimes Graves and flint mining
368(1)
Langdale stone axes
369(1)
Quarrying
370(1)
The first copper mines
371(7)
Key study: Hallstatt and the organisation of salt mining
373(5)
Processing metals
378(4)
Copper and Cyprus
380(1)
Iron
381(1)
Production: how artefacts were made
382(8)
Manufacturing using plants
382(2)
Carpentry
384(4)
Textiles
388(2)
Organisation of production
390(7)
Economic specialists
390(1)
Metalworking specialists: from sorcerers to smiths
391(3)
Ironsmiths
394(1)
Craftsmen as artists
395(2)
The Gundestrup Cauldron
397(1)
What is material culture?
397(2)
Beads and symbolic behaviour
398(1)
Why does material culture change?
398(1)
Trade and exchange
399(3)
Reciprocity
399(1)
Redistribution
400(1)
Market exchange
401(1)
Identifying patterns of exchange
402(3)
Shipwrecks
403(2)
Networks of exchange
405(10)
The Canaanite Amphorae Project
405(2)
Identifying trade routes
407(8)
Key study: Dorestad and the birth of medieval trade in the North Sea zone
408(7)
Exchange and the first writing systems
415(3)
Decoding writing systems
415(3)
10 People And Society In The Past
418(86)
What is social archaeology?
418(1)
Understanding social archaeology
418(1)
Forms of social and political organisation
419(11)
Social evolution
419(1)
Families
420(1)
Kinship
421(1)
Bands and tribes
421(1)
Transegalitarian societies
422(4)
Key study: Varna, gold and social status in Copper Age Europe
423(3)
Segmentary and ranked societies
426(1)
Chiefdoms
427(1)
States
428(2)
The archaeology of rank, status and stratification
430(2)
Identifying status, rank and stratification
432(16)
Burial evidence
432(7)
Key study: Hochdorf and hereditary chiefdoms in the Iron Age
434(5)
Artefactual evidence
439(1)
Settlement evidence
440(1)
Conspicuous consumption
441(6)
Key study: Mead halls and power: Gudme, Beowulf and Sutton Hoo
442(5)
Invisible indicators
447(1)
The archaeology of gender
448(4)
Human remains
448(1)
Graves and grave goods
449(1)
Settlement evidence
450(1)
Artistic sources
450(2)
Age
452(2)
Social change
454(3)
The beginnings of ranking and social divisions in Europe
454(1)
Changes by the 3rd millennium BC
455(2)
Explaining the emergence of elites
457(9)
Gimbutas and the Kurgan hypothesis
458(1)
Sherratt and the secondary products revolution
459(1)
Influences from the Steppes
460(1)
Bogucki and the emergence of wealth
461(5)
Key study: VuEedol and the birth of inequality at the dawn of the Bronze Age
462(4)
The emergence of chiefdoms in Bronze Age Europe
466(2)
Evidence for elites
466(1)
Sources of wealth
466(1)
Mobilisation
467(1)
Explaining the emergence of social complexity
468(7)
The first urban settlements
468(1)
Hydraulic theories
469(1)
Population theories
469(1)
Conflict theories
469(6)
Key study: Knossos and the emergence of Minoan palace civilisation
470(5)
Power and social control
475(3)
Social conflict
476(2)
Warfare
478(12)
Understanding warfare in prehistory
479(1)
Neolithic warfare
480(2)
The development of weapons
482(4)
Key study: Military technology and organisation: the Illerup Hoard
483(3)
State-level warfare
486(1)
Fortifications
487(3)
Population
490(2)
Estimating population size
490(2)
Ethnicity
492(1)
Migration and the origins of populations
493(11)
Key study: Was there an Anglo-Saxon invasion? The evidence from three Anglo-Saxon settlements
494(5)
Where did the farmers go? The LBK and the DNA of modern Europeans
499(1)
Demic diffusion
500(1)
Cultural diffusion
501(1)
Neolithic standstill
501(2)
The genetic origins of the British
503(1)
11 The Archaeology Of Religion And Ritual
504(59)
Section A: Concepts And Evidence
504(22)
What is religion?
505(1)
What is the function of religion?
505(1)
Explaining the unknown
506(1)
Establishing rules and models of behaviour
506(1)
The maintenance of social order
506(1)
Transmitting memory
506(1)
What kinds of religion have there been?
507(1)
Major deities
507(1)
Gods and goddesses
508(1)
Ancestral spirits
509(1)
Animism
509(1)
Totems
510(1)
Animatism
510(1)
Ritual activity
511(1)
Funerary rituals
512(1)
Mortuary rituals and the treatment of the dead
513(1)
Funerary monuments and grave goods
515(1)
How do archaeologists detect evidence of past rituals?
516(1)
Architectural clues
517(1)
Votive offerings
520(1)
Ritual symbolism
520(1)
Landscape, ritual and belief
522(2)
Religious specialists
524(1)
Priests and priestesses
525(1)
Shamans
525(1)
Section B: Religious Change
526(27)
Upper Palaeolithic Europe 40,000-10,000 BP
527(1)
Art
527(3)
Mesolithic Europe c.10,000-6,500 BP
530(2)
The early to middle Neolithic c.4500—c.3000 BC in the British Isles
532(1)
Neolithic tombs
532(1)
Soul beliefs
533(4)
Key study: Newgrange
534(2)
Other Neolithic monuments
536(1)
The later Neolithic and early Bronze Age c. 3000-1800 BC in the British Isles
537(1)
Large Neolithic enclosures
537(1)
Neolithic ritual landscapes
538(1)
Clues to Neolithic ritual
540(1)
The middle Bronze Age 1800-1200 BC in Britain
541(2)
The late Bronze Age and Iron Age 1200-55 Etc
543(1)
Iron Age burials
544(1)
Roman religion and ritual to c. AD 476
545(1)
Roman syncretism
545(1)
Relationships with the gods
546(1)
Temples
546(1)
Religion in everyday life
549(1)
Roman mortuary practice
549(1)
Roman state religion
551(1)
Religious change at Lullingstone Villa
552(1)
Section C: Ancient Egyptian State Religion
553(1)
Egyptian beliefs and deities
553(1)
Deities and rulers
554(1)
Egyptian temples
554(3)
Religious festivals
557(1)
Mortuary ritual
558(1)
Elite tombs
559(1)
Funerary monuments
559(1)
Pyramids
560(3)
Part III Issues In World Archaeology 563(66)
12 Managing Archaeological Heritage
565(29)
Threats to archaeological remains
565(6)
The Monuments at Risk Survey of England (MARS), 1998
566(2)
Global threats to archaeology
568(2)
Are all archaeological sites valuable?
570(1)
The protection of archaeological remains
571(8)
Protection in law
571(1)
Protection through the planning process
572(1)
PPG16
572(5)
The National Planning Policy Framework NPPF (2012)
577(1)
International protection
577(1)
The management of Stonehenge
578(1)
The protection of artefacts
579(1)
Who are the archaeologists?
579(6)
Learned and excavation societies
580(1)
The rescue era
580(1)
Archaeologists since the era of PPG16
581(1)
Archaeology today
582(1)
Community archaeology
583(1)
Amateur archaeology
584(1)
Metal detectorists
585(1)
Cultural resource management
585(1)
Specialists and scientists
586(1)
Campaign and lobby groups
586(1)
Is research archaeology still justifiable?
586(8)
Development archaeology and research
587(7)
Key study: The Biddenham Loop: modern developer-led archaeology in action
587(7)
13 Archaeology And The Present: Whose Past Is It Anyway?
594(35)
Which past?
594(1)
The political use of archaeology
594(6)
Israel, Islam and archaeology
595(1)
Nazi archaeology
596(1)
The political use of heritage in the UK
597(3)
Key study: Ancient and modern Celts
597(3)
National disputes over the ownership of cultural artefacts
600(3)
Restitution issues
601(1)
The Elgin Marbles
602(1)
Repatriation to indigenous peoples
603(5)
Science v. repatriation: the case of Kennewick Man
605(1)
Pagans, human remains and museums in the UK
606(1)
Sensitivities about displaying human remains
607(1)
The value of archaeology
608(9)
Public interest
608(1)
Public involvement
609(1)
Tourism
609(1)
Advancing understanding
610(1)
Applied understanding
611(6)
Key study: Archaeology, conservation and the medieval fishing industry
612(5)
Communicating archaeological knowledge
617(12)
Reports
618(1)
Books and journals
618(1)
Television
618(1)
Archaeology on the web
619(1)
Museums
620(2)
Open air museums
622(3)
Presenting archaeological sites
625(4)
Glossary of terms and abbreviations 629(9)
Bibliography 638(15)
Index 653
All three authors have considerable experience in teaching archaeology, examining and field archaeology. Jim Grant is Vice Principal at Cirencester College. Sam Gorin was formerly a Curriculum Director at Newark and Sherwood College. He has been widely involved in field archaeology in the East Midlands. Neil Fleming is Upper-Sixth House Master at Christs Hospital, Horsham.