Research Catalog

Title

Extracting meaning from ploughsoil assemblages / edited by Riccardo Francovich, Helen Patterson and Graeme Barker.

Publication

Oxford [England] : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Co. [distributor], 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Patterson, Helen
• Francovich, Riccardo
• Barker, Graeme
• Patterson, Helen, 1958-
• POPULUS Project

Description

xxii, 266 p. : ill., maps; 31 cm.

Series Statement

The Archaeology of Mediterranean landscapes ; 5

Uniform Title

Archaeology of Mediterranean landscapes 5.

Subject

• Landscape archaeology > Methodology > Congresses
• Archaeology > Mediterranean Region > Congresses
• Archaeology > Methodology > Congresses
• Pottery > Mediterranean Region > Congresses
• Archaeological assemblages > Mediterranean Region > Congresses
• Archaeological surveying > Mediterranean Region > Congresses
• Pottery, Ancient > Mediterranean Region > Congresses
• Antiquities > Collection and preservation > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Mediterranean Region > Congresses
• Mediterranean Region > Antiquities > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "This is one of five volumes being published by the POPULUS Project ... to address a series of methodological issues in Mediterranean landscape archaeology"--P. [iii].
• "The five Colloquia took place on 13-16 October (Aix), 6-8 November (Leicester), 25-26 November (Durham), 1-3 December (Siena) and 4-6 December (Pisa) in 1995"--P. v.
• "The five Colloquia are being published in a series ... under the title Mediterranean landscapes"--P. v.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Fourteen papers in English, 2 papers in Italian, and 1 paper in French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 Muŝiĉ, Boẑidar Slapŝak, 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].

ISBN

1900188759

OCLC

• 43819032
• SCSB-11402772

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library