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Author: Colin Haselgrove Publisher: Equinox Publishing ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 138
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First published in 1985, this collection of essays has proved popular for those teaching archaeological field methods. It deals with methodological problems in a general way, but also illustrated by some case studies from both Britain and the continent, from regional strategies to the intensive study of a specific site.
Author: Colin Haselgrove Publisher: Equinox Publishing ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 138
Book Description
First published in 1985, this collection of essays has proved popular for those teaching archaeological field methods. It deals with methodological problems in a general way, but also illustrated by some case studies from both Britain and the continent, from regional strategies to the intensive study of a specific site.
Author: Jesús Bermejo Tirado Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110757419 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 307
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This volume aims to present an updated portrait of the Roman countryside in Roman Spain by the comparison of different theoretical orientations and methodological strategies including the discussion of textual and iconographic sources and the analysis of the faunal remains. The archaeology of rural areas of the Roman world has traditionally been focused on the study of villae, both as an architectural model of Roman otium and as the central core of an economic system based on the extensive agricultural exploitation of latifundia. The assimilation of most rural settlements in provincial areas of the Roman Empire with the villa model implies the acceptance of specific ideas, such as the generalization of the slave mode of production, the rupture of the productive capacity of Late Iron Age communities, or the reduction in importance of free peasant labor in the Roman economy of most rural areas. However, in recent decades, as a consequence of the generalized extension of preventive or emergency archaeology and survey projects in most areas of the ancient territories of the Roman Empire, this traditional conception of the Roman countryside articulated around monumental villae is undergoing a thorough revision. New research projects are changing our current perception of the countryside of most parts of the Roman provincial world by assessing the importance of different types of rural settlements. In the last years, we have witnessed the publication of archaeological reports on the excavation of thousands of small rural sites, farms, farmsteads, enclosures, rural agglomerations of diverse nature, etc. One of the main consequences of all this research activity is a vigorous discussion of the paradigm of the slave mode of production as the basis of Roman rural economies in many provincial areas. A similar change in the paradigm is taking place, with some delay, in the archaeology of Roman Spain. After decades of preventive/emergency interventions there is a considerable quantity of unpublished data on this kind of rural settlements. However, unlike the cases of Roman Britain or Gallia Comata, no synthesis or national projects are undertaking the task of systematizing all these data. With the intention of addressing this current situation the present volume discusses the results and methodological strategies of different projects studying peasant settlements in several regions of Roman Spain.
Author: Riccardo Francovich Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 296
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Assessments of the Past, Strategies for the Future ( S. Alcock ). Methodology: Methods of Collection, Recording and Quantification ( D. Mattingly ); Cultural Depositional Processes andPost-depossitional Problems ( J. Taylor ); Ceramics and the Site ( Vincent Gaffney ); What Are we Counting For? ( Elizabeth Fentress ); Dating, Quantifying and Utilizing Pottery from Surface Survey ( Martin Millett ); Towards an Analysis of Incomplete Distributions ( Nicola Terrenato ); Quando i Campi Hanno Pochi Significati da Estarre ( Franco Cambi ); Prospection et Chronologie: de la quantification du temps au modèle de peuplement ( Frédéric Trément ); Discussion ( Martin Millett ). Ceramic Studies in Mediterranean Survey: Prehistoric Ceramic Studies ( Caroline Malone & Simon Stoddart ); Roman Ceramic Studies in Mediterranean Survey ( John W. Hayes ); Early Medieval and Medieval Ceramic Studies ( Helen Patterson ). Case Studies: Surface Survey Analysis of the Copper Age Site of La Pijotilla (Spain) ( Victor Hurtado ); On-site Surface Distributions and Geophysica: the site of Rodik-Adjovscina ( Bozidar Slapsak, Branko Music & Verena Perko ); Il Caso dell'Itlia Medio-tirrenica ( Andrea Zifferaro ); Ceramic Chronology and Roman Rural Settlement in the Lower Guadalquivir Valley during the Augustan Period ( Simon Keay ); Terracotta and its Territory ( Franco Cambi ); The Adriatic Islands Project ( Vincent Gaffney, Branco Kirigin, John W. Hayes & Peter Leach ); Céramologie et Histoire du Peuplement dans la Cité de Mines ( Claude Raynaud ); Insediamento e Circolazione Ceramica fra V e X Secolo nella Toscana Centro-meridionale ( Riccardo Francovich & Marco Valenti ); Reconstructing the Classical Landscape with Figures: some interpretive explorations in North-West Keos ( Todd Whitelaw ); Demographic Trends: the Contribution of Regional Survey Data ( John Bintliff & Kostas Sbonias ); Conclusion ( Susan E. Alcock, Franco Cambi, Simon Keay & Claude Raynaud ).
Author: Clive Orton Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521566667 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 284
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The first overview of sampling for archaeologists for over twenty years, this manual offers a comprehensive account of the applications of statistical sampling theory which are essential to modern archaeological practice at a range of scales, from the regional to the microscopic. Bringing archaeologists up to date with an aspect of their work which is often misunderstood, it includes a discussion of the relevance of sampling theory to archaeological interpretation, and considers its fundamental place in fieldwork and post-excavation study. It demonstrates the vast range of techniques that are available, only some of which are widely used by archaeologists. A section on statistical theory also reviews latest developments in the field, and the formal mathematics is available in an appendix, cross-referenced with the main text.
Author: Kristina Winther-Jacobsen Publisher: ISBN: 9789042923836 Category : Archaeological surveying Languages : en Pages : 0
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During the last forty odd years, archaeological surveys have demonstrated that much can be said about changing patterns of regional exchange and settlement hierarchies based on surface observations. Walking the Mediterranean landscape, the most common indication of ancient human activity survey archaeologists come across are scatters of pottery and other ceramics. Enormous numbers of sherds are counted, collected, recorded, and interpreted in order to understand the ancient cultural, social, economic, and ritual landscapes. Some discrete scatters of ancient artefacts are interpreted as sites where people have lived and/or worked based on an analysis of both cultural and environmental data. These artefact scatters are modern phenomena affected by complex post-depositional processes such as cultivation which obscure potentional behavioural patterning. Artefact-based survey with its treatment of artefacts behaving as sediments in the soil enhanced with a detailed pottery analysis centred on use has the potential to greatly increase our understanding of the ancient rural world. This book offers an attempt to create a methodology for hypothesizing about the general activities taking place at sites identified by survey based on ceramics. The use typology is put forward as a tool for studying artefactual differentiation, and the method consists of establishing empirically generalized pottery indices of different human activities based on artefactual differentiation at Late Roman sites in Cyprus.
Author: Clive Orton Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521445979 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 296
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A 'state of the art' guide to pottery analysis providing information on recent scientific developments and the latest statistical techniques.
Author: James Graham-Campbell Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag ISBN: 8771244271 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 450
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The two volumes of The Archaeology of Medieval Europe will together comprise the first complete account of medieval archaeology across Europe. Archaeologists from academic institutions in fifteen countries are collaborating to produce these two books of sixteen thematic chapters each. In addition, every chapter will feature a number of 'box-texts', by specialist contributors, highlighting sites or themes of particular importance. The books will be comprehensively illustrated throughout, in both colour and b/w, including line drawings and specially commissioned maps. This ground-breaking set, which is divided chronologically into two (Vol. 1 extending from the Eighth to Twelfth Centuries AD, and Vol. 2 from the Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries - to appear 2008), will enable readers to track the development of different cultures, and of regional characteristics, throughout the full extent of medieval Catholic Europe. In addition to revealing shared contexts and technological developments, the complete work will also provide the opportunity for demonstrating the differences that were inevitably present across the Continent - from Iceland to Italy, and from Portugal to Finland - and to study why such differences existed.
Author: Peter Drewett Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135361223 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 213
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Peter Drewett's comprehensive survey explores every stage of the dig process, from the core work of discovery and excavation to the final product: the published archaeological report. Main topics covered are: how an archaeological site is formed finding and recording archaeological sites planning excavations, digging the site and recording the results post-fieldwork planning, processing and finds analysis interpreting the evidence publishing the report. Illustrated with 100 photographs and line drawings, and using numerous case studies, Field Archaeology is the essential introductory guide for archaeology students, and is certain to be welcomed by the growing number of enthusiasts for the subject.
Author: Peter Wade-Martins Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1784916587 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 404
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A personal history of Peter Wade-Martins archaeological endeavour in Norfolk set within a national context. It covers the writer’s early experiences as a volunteer, the rise of field archaeology as a profession and efforts to conserve archaeological heritage.
Author: Colin Haselgrove
Author: Colin Haselgrove
Author: Jesús Bermejo Tirado
Author: Riccardo Francovich
Author: Clive Orton
Author: Kristina Winther-Jacobsen
Author: Clive Orton
Author: Nico Roymans
Author: James Graham-Campbell
Author: Peter Drewett
Author: Peter Wade-Martins