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Science in Archaeology : A Comprehensive Survey of Progress and Research

by: Brothwell, D. Higgs, E. Clark, G.

Price: 95,00 EURO

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Category: Theoretical Archaeology
Code: 11508
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Date: 1963
Publication Place: New York
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 595
Book Condition: Good
Comments: Out of Print / Ex-Library

Science in archaeology : a comprehensive survey of progress and research

Authors: Don R. Brothwell (Editor),E. S. Higgs (Editor), Grahame Clark

595 pages illustrations 26 cm


Contents:
Archaeology and dating
Analytical methods of dating bones
Radiocarbon dating
Obsidian dating
Archaeomagnetism
The potassium-argon dating of Upper Tertiary and Pleistocene deposits
Dating basalts
Dating pottery by thermoluminescence
Environmental studies and archaeology
The significance of deep-sea cores
Soil silhouettes
Soil, stratification, and environment
Cave sediments and prehistory
Pollen analysis
Wood and charcoal in archaeology
The condition of "wood" in archaeological sites
Dendrochronology
Palaeoethnobotany
Diet as revealed by coprolites
Fauna
A scrap of bone
Osteo-archaeology
The rate of evolution
The cave hyena, an essay in statistical analysis
The science and history of domestic animals
The ageing of domestic animals
The origins of the dog
The palaeopathology of Pleistocene and more recent mammals
Bird remains in archaeology
Remains of fishes and other aquatic animals
Non-marine mollusca and archaeology
The biology of earlier human populations
Microscopy and prehistoric bone
Sex determination in earlier man
Estimation of age and mortality
Stature in earlier races of mankind
Cremations
The palaeopathology of human skeletal remains
The radiological examination of human remains
The study of mummified and dried human tissues
The hair of earlier peoples
Palaeoserology
Blood groups and prehistory
Artifacts
A statistical analysis of flint artifacts
Petrological examination
Some aspects of ceramic technology
Optical emission spectroscopy and the study of metallurgy in the European Bronze Age
Microscopic studies of ancient metals
The analytical study of glass in archaeology
Remains derived from skin
Fibres of archaeological interest : their examination and identification
Magnetic location
Resistivity surveying

 
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