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Author: Iain Morley Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521119901 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 287
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Explores the archaeological evidence for the development of measuring activities in numerous ancient societies and the implications of these discoveries.
Author: Iain Morley Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521119901 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 287
Book Description
Explores the archaeological evidence for the development of measuring activities in numerous ancient societies and the implications of these discoveries.
Author: R. Lee Lyman Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803280521 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 359
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Combining historical research with a lucid explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, Measuring Time with Artifacts examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures and analyzes the different ways American archaeologists have studied changes in artifacts, sites, and peoples over time. In highlighting the underpinning ontology and epistemology of artifact-based chronometers?cultural transmission and how to measure it archaeologically?this volume covers issues such as why archaeologists used the cultural evolutionism of L. H. Morgan, E. B. Tylor, L. A. White, and others instead of biological evolutionism; why artifact classification played a critical role in the adoption of stratigraphic excavation; how the direct historical approach accomplished three analytical tasks at once; why cultural traits were important analytical units; why paleontological and archaeological methods sometimes mirror one another; how artifact classification influences chronometric method; and how graphs illustrate change in artifacts over time. An understanding of the history of artifact-based chronometers enables us to understand how we know what we think we know about the past, ensures against modern misapplication of the methods, and sheds light on the reasoning behind archaeologists' actions during the first half of the twentieth century.
Author: Ann Felice Ramenofsky Publisher: University of Utah Press ISBN: 9780874805482 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 264
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This volume emphasizes one aspect of scientific method: units of measure and their construction as applied to archaeology. Attributes, artifact classes, locational designations, temporal periods, sampling universes, culture stages, and geographic regions are all examples of constructed units.
Author: Stephen Shennan Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 148329594X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 374
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This book introduces archaeologists to the most important quantitative methods, from the initial description of archaeological data to techniques of multivariate analysis. These are presented in the context of familiar problems in archaeological practice, an approach designed to illustrate their relevance and to overcome the fear of mathematics from which archaeologists often suffer.
Author: Edward B. Banning Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030479927 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 410
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This second edition of the classic textbook, The Archaeologist’s Laboratory, is a substantially revised work that offers updated information on the archaeological work that follows fieldwork, such as the processing and analysis of artifacts and other evidence. An overarching theme of this edition is the quality and validity of archaeological arguments and the data we use to support them. The book introduces many of the laboratory activities that archaeologists carry out and the ways we can present research results, including graphs and artifact illustrations. Part I introduces general topics concerning measurement error, data quality, research design, typology, probability and databases. It also includes data presentation, basic artifact conservation, and laboratory safety. Part II offers brief surveys of the analysis of lithics and ground stone, pottery, metal artifacts, bone and shell artifacts, animal and plant remains, and sediments, as well as dating by stratigraphy, seriation and chronometric methods. It concludes with a chapter on archaeological illustration and publication. A new feature of the book is illustration of concepts through case studies from around the world and from the Palaeolithic to historical archaeology.The text is appropriate for senior undergraduate students and will also serve as a useful reference for graduate students and professional archaeologists.
Author: Simon Mays Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134687931 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 257
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The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to what can be learnt from the scientific study of human skeletal remains from archaeological sites.
Author: E.B. Banning Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 0306476541 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 328
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This text reviews the theory, concepts, and basic methods involved in archaeological analysis with the aim of familiarizing both students and professionals with its underlying principles. Topics covered include the nature and presentation of data; database and research design; sampling and quantification; analyzing lithics, pottery, faunal, and botanical remains; interpreting dates; and archaeological illustration. A glossary of key terms completes the book.
Author: David L. Streiner Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199685215 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 415
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A new edition of this practical guide for clinicians who are developing tools to measure subjective states, attitudes, or non-tangible outcomes in their patients, suitable for those who have no knowledge of statistics.
Author: Seren Griffiths Publisher: Oxbow Books ISBN: 1789255651 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 225
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A variety of techniques have been developed to provide scientific chronologies of archaeological sites and material culture. These chronologies under-pin the narratives that are generated for prehistoric and other periods. The application of Bayesian statistical analysis to scientific chronologies has been hailed as a revolution in understanding, and has brought renewed emphasis onto how we generate scientific chronological data, how these data are applied into wider narratives, and the epistemological importance of these data. This volume will provide a timely review of the methods, applications and challenges of applying different scientific dating techniques to archaeological sites and material culture. It will then provide an introduction to Bayesian modelling, and highlight a series of considerations in the application of scientific dating techniques.
Author: Iain Morley
Author: Iain Morley
Author: R. Lee Lyman
Author: Ann Felice Ramenofsky
Author: Stephen Shennan
Author: Timothy A. Kohler
Author: Edward B. Banning
Author: Simon Mays
Author: E.B. Banning
Author: David L. Streiner
Author: Seren Griffiths