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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 case studies in this second 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 and how to succeed with different types of assignments and exam questions
  • supports study with case studies, key sites, key terms, tasks and skills development
  • illustrates concepts and commentary with over 200 photos and drawings of excavation sites, methodology and processes, tools and equipment
  • links from its own website to other key websites in archaeology at the right level at www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415360773
  • contains new material from European pre-history and the Roman Empire; new case studies, methods, examples, boxes, photographs and diagrams; as well as updates on examination changes for pre-university students.

This is definitely a book no archaeology student should be without.



Table of Contents:
Contents List of figures Index of skills Acknowledgements Illustration acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Key skill: what you have to learn to be successful How to use this text PART I UNDERSTANDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESOURCES 1 ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE Key skill: successful note-taking Desktop study Historical documents Maps Key task: sourcing information Surface surveys Recording standing buildings Fieldwalking Geochemical prospection Geophysical surveys Resistivity survey Magnetometer surveying Key task: test your understanding of geophysics Other methods Key skill: comparing methods Aerial photography Verticals and obliques Shadow sites Cropmarks Soil marks Remote sensing Key skill: short questions test 2 EXCAVATION Why excavate? Types of excavation Research excavations Key site: Avebury Rescue excavations Key site: Empingham, Rutland Excavation strategies and the process of excavation How to dig? Key site: Boxgrove Key task: testing the law of superposition The process of excavation Recovery of environmental material What records do archaeologists create? Context sheets Plans Section drawings Photographs Special cases Archaeology of standing buildings Wetland archaeology Underwater archaeology Urban archaeology Key task: comparative study of survey and excavation methods Key skill: tackling structured, source-based questions After excavation Key task: test your understanding of methods 3 POST-EXCAVATION ANALYSIS Archaeometry Is archaeology a science? Visual examination Scientific analysis of artefacts Characterisation studies Petrology Spectrometry X-ray fluorescence Neutron activation analysis Isotopic analysis Analysis of particular inorganic materials Ceramic analysis Lithic analysis Metallurgical analysis Key skill: noting methods of analysis Analysis of organic remains Soil Faunal remains Human remains Organic artefacts Key site: The Amesbury Archer Plants Plant macrofossils Plant microfossils Key study: the decline of the Maya Invertebrates After analysis Key skill: reinforcing class learning of methods 4 UNDERSTANDING DATING IN ARCHAEOLOGY Historical dating Relative dating Typology Seriation Geoarchaeological dating Obsidian hydration Chemical dating of bones Absolute or chronometric dating Dendrochronology Radiocarbon dating Thermoluminescence Potassium–argon dating Other absolute dating techniques Key task: test your grasp of dating methods 5 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION Transformation processes Formation processes Key task: understanding formation processes Post-depositional factors Key task: group activity on transformation processes Recovery factors Analysing spatial patterns Making sense of the data Historical accounts or documents of past societies



About the Author :

Jim Grant is a Principal Examiner in A Level Archaeology and Assistant Principal at Cirencester College. He is also a member of the subject advisory panel for archaeology at the Higher Education Academy for teaching and learning and has experience as an archaeologist in the field.

Sam Gorin is Chief Moderator for A Level Archaeology and until recently was head of general studies at Newark and Sherwood College. He has 20 years experience as a professional archaeologist.

Neil Fleming is Chief Examiner in A Level Archaeology and Upper Sixth Housemaster at Christ’s Hospital school. He is a highly experienced teacher of archaeology who also has field archaeology experience.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781136790973
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 384
  • ISBN-10: 1136790977
  • Publisher Date: 27 Jul 2005
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Sub Title: An Introduction to Study Skills, Topics and Methods


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