Extracting Meaning from Ploughsoil Assemblages

by: Francovich, R. Patterson, H.

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Extracting meaning from ploughsoil assemblages
Authors:Riccardo Francovich, Helen Patterson, Graeme Barker, POPULUS Project

Summary:In studying the landscape, relics recovered from plough-soil reflect buried remains but for archaeologists, collection and recording strategies may be unsatisfactory. These papers address this concern and assess the efficacy of surface survey work.

Series:
Archaeology of Mediterranean landscapes, 5

xxii, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.

Contents:
Extracting meaning from ploughsoil assemblages : assessments of the past, strategies for the future / Susan E. Alcock
Methods of collection, recording and quantification / David Mattingly
Cultural depositional processes and post-depositional problems / Jeremy Taylor (with a comment by Peter van Dommelen)
Ceramics and the site : is survey enough? / Vincent Gaffney
What are we counting for? / Elizabeth Fentress
Dating, quantifying and utilizing pottery assemblages from surface survey / Martin Millett
The visibility of sites and the interpretation of field survey results : towards an analysis of incomplete distributions / Nicola Terrenato
Quando i campi hanno pochi significati da estrarre : visibilità archeologica, storia istituzionale, multi-stage work / Franco Cambi
Prospection et chronologie : de la quantification du temps au modèle de peuplement. Methodes appliquées au secteur des étangs de Saint-Blaise (Bouches-du-Rhône) France / Frédéric Trément
Discussion / Martin Millett
The current state of prehistoric ceramic studies in Mediterranean survey / Caroline Malone and Simon Stoddart
The current state of Roman ceramic studies in Mediterranean survey, or handling pottery from surveys / John W. Hayes
The current state of early medieval and medieval ceramic studies in Mediterranean survey / Helen Patterson
Surface survey analysis of the copper age site of La Pijotilla (Spain) / Victor Hurtado
On-site surface distributions and geophysics : the site of Rodik-Adjovŝĉina / Branko Mušič, Božidar Slapšak, Verena Perko
La ceramica preromana come indicatore di processi socio-economici : il caso dell'Italia medio-tirrenica / Andrea Zifferero (with a comment by Alessandro Guidi)
Ceramic chronology and Roman rural settlement in the lower Guadalquivir Valley during the Augustan period / Simon Keay
Pottery and territory : a tormented relationship / Franco Cambi
The Adriatic Islands Project : contact, commerce and commercialization / Vincent Gaffney [and others]
De la fouille à la prospection, et retour : céramologie et histoire du peuplement dans la cité de Nimes / Claude Raynaud
Il rapporto fra superficie e sottosuolo; dal survey allo scavo : insediamento e circolazione ceramica fra V e X secolo nella Toscana centro-meridionale / Riccardo Francovich and 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 and Kostas Sbonias
Concluding comments / Helen Patterson [and others]

Based on the POPULUS colloquia, held October-December 1995

Includes chapters in Italian and French

Extracting Meaning from Ploughsoil Assemblages

by: Francovich, R. Patterson, H.

• ISBN-13: 9781900188753 / 978-1-900188-75-3
• ISBN-03: 1900188759 / 1-900188-75-9
• Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2000

Price: 127,66 EURO

1 copy in stock