Research Catalog

Title

Science in archaeology : a comprehensive survey of progress and research / edited by Don Brothwell and Eric Higgs. With a foreword by Grahame Clark.

Publication

New York, Basic Books [1963]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brothwell, Don R.
• Higgs, E. S. (Eric Sidney), 1908-1976
• Clark, Grahame, 1907-1995

Description

595 pages illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Archaeology > Methodology
• Archaeology > Methodology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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.

LCCN

63022061

OCLC

• ocm00390271
• 390271
• SCSB-8878883

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library