Field Archaeology from Around the World
Ideas and Approaches
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Beschreibung
Field practice in archaeology varies greatly throughout the world, mainly because archaeological sites survive in very different ways in different counties. Many manuals see this as a problem - to be defeated by the imposition of standardised procedures. In this book we relish the variety of field practice, seeing it rather as the way the best archaeologists have responded creatively to the challenges of terrain, research objectives and the communities within which they work. While insisting on the highest levels of investigation, we celebrate the different designs, concepts, scientific detection methods and recording systems applied - so embracing standards, but not standardisation. The book is organised in four parts:
Part 1 offers a summary of field procedures.
Part 2 reviews the principal methods applied, above and below ground, and how the results are analysed.
Part 3 illustrates the huge variety confronted by field workers with a series of exemplary commercial and academic projects enacted in downland, jungle, desert, permafrost, road schemes and towns. Approaches also differ according to the traditional methodologies that have evolved in particular countries.
In Part 4 we give examples of some the strongest and oldest of those practised on four continents.
This is a field archaeology manual that leads by example, presenting a dossier of modern practice, useful for students and practitioners alike Initiates a new era of creative fieldwork, emphasising high standards without standardisation These entries were assembled for the Springer Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology section on Field Archaeology
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Martin Carver
Themen in »Field Archaeology from Around the World«
Archaeological field methods Archaeological surveys and projects Non-destructive subsurface mapping Pioneers and traditions within global archaeology Site and artefact preservation Surface method and strategies