Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2019. — 262 p. Tribology, the science of interacting surfaces in relative motion, has traditionally focused on technological applications, although some attention has been given to geotribology and tribochemistry. This volume explores the geological applications of tribology in some detail, before introducing the entirely new subdisciplines of...
Oxbow Books, 2013. — 192 p. This volume presents the findings of a major international project on the application of radiocarbon dating to the Egyptian historical chronology. Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Cranfield in the UK, along with a team from France, Austria and Israel, radiocarbon dated more than 200 Egyptian objects made from plant material from museum...
Routledge, 2015. — 196 p. Experimental archaeology is a new approach to the study of early man. By reconstructing and testing models of ancient equipment with the techniques available to early man, we learn how he lived, hunted, fought and built. What did early man eat? How did he store and cook his food? How did he make his tools and weapons and pottery? Such everyday...
Routledge, 2015. — 196 p. Experimental archaeology is a new approach to the study of early man. By reconstructing and testing models of ancient equipment with the techniques available to early man, we learn how he lived, hunted, fought and built. What did early man eat? How did he store and cook his food? How did he make his tools and weapons and pottery? Such everyday...
Routledge, 2010. — 168 p. An Archaeology of Materials sets out a new approach to the study of raw materials. Traditional understandings of materials in archaeology (and in western thought more widely) have failed to acknowledge both the complexity and, moreover, the benefits of an analysis of materials. Here Conneller argues that materials cannot be understood independently of...
Routledge, 2014. — 354 p. At last a paperback edition of this standard work on marine archaeology. Séan McGrail's study received exceptional critical acclaim when it was first published in hardback in 1987 and it is now revised and published in paperback for the first time. Professor McGrail provides an authoritative survey of water transport across Northern Europe from the...
Springer International Publishing, 2019. — 333 p. This book presents the multidisciplinary field of forensic archaeology as complementary but distinct from forensic anthropology. By looking beyond basic excavation methods and skeletal analyses, this book presents the theoretical foundations of forensic archaeology, novel contexts and applications, and demonstrative case studies...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 268 p. The construction of formal measurement systems underlies the development of science and technology, economy, and new ways of understanding and explaining the world. Human societies have developed such systems in different ways in different places and at different times, and recent archaeological investigations highlight the importance...
Routledge, 2017. — 300 p. The human cost in any conflict is of course the first care in terms of the reduction, if not the elimination of damage. However, the destruction of archaeology and heritage as a consequence of civil and international wars is also of major concern, and the irreversible loss of monuments and sites through conflict has been increasingly discussed and...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 542 p. This anthology celebrates 40 years of an archaeology of mind, the investigation of how the modern human mind emerged, as discerned through material artifacts such as the stone tools used throughout the Paleolithic and the hunting technologies and numbers found in the Neolithic. The contributions by established and emerging scholars cover...
Springer, 2018. — 248 p. This book aims to thoroughly discuss new directions of thinking in the arena of environmental archaeology and test them by presenting new practical applications. Recent theoretical and epistemological advancement in the field of archaeology calls for a re-definition of the subdiscipline of environmental archaeology and its position within the practice...
Monograph. — Geological Society, London, 1999. — 177 p. — ISBN: 1-86239-053-3. Geoarchaeology: an introduction . Exploration . Medieval iron and lead smelting works: a geophysical comparison. Euler deconvolution methods used to determine the depth to archaeological features. The application of microgravity in industrial archaeology: an example from the Williamson tunnels, Edge...
2nd ed. — Springer, 2009. — (Natural Science in Archaeology). — XVI, 336 p. — ISBN: 978-3-540-78593-4. Archaeomineralogy provides a wealth of information for mineralogists, geologists and archaeologists involved in archaeometric stuides of our past. The first edition was very well recieved and praised for its systematic description of the rocks and minerals used througout the...
Springer, 2012. — 516 p. — (Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique). — ISSN: 1571-5752; ISBN: 978-1-4614-3337-8. One of the most significant developments in archaeology in recent years is the emergence of its environmental branch: the study of humans’ interactions with their natural surroundings over long periods and of organic remains instead of the artifacts...
Springer, 2004. — 214 p. This is a Foreword by an archaeologist, not a conservator, but as Brad Rodgerssays, "Conservation has been steadily pulled from archaeology by the forces of specialization " (p.3), and he wants to remedy that situation through this manual. He see sthis work as a "call to action for the non-professional conservator", permitting "curators, conservators,...
Springer, 2019. — 259 p. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the metallographic study of ancient metals. Metallography is important both conceptually as a microstructural science and in terms of its application to the study of ancient and historic metals. Metallography is a well-established methodology for the characterization of the microstructure of metals,...
Springer, 2019. — 259 p. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the metallographic study of ancient metals. Metallography is important both conceptually as a microstructural science and in terms of its application to the study of ancient and historic metals. Metallography is a well-established methodology for the characterization of the microstructure of metals,...
Springer, 2013. — 352 p. This book examines methods for linking osteo-archaeological data with historical and environmental sources to shed light on the living conditions of past populations. Covering all time periods from prehistory to the 20th century, it aims to construct models that capture plausible demographic dynamics from highly fragmentary evidence. Starting from the...
Academic Press, 1980. — 272 p. — (Studies in archaeological science). — ISBN: 0-12-639480-6. The aim of the work is to describe and discuss prehistoric mines and to consider the areas from which early man obtained his supplies of raw materials. However, to confine the book to these aspects would result in a very narrow coverage and many no less important facts would have to be...
Routledge, 2019. — 610 p. Edited by two pioneers in the field of sensory archaeology, this Handbook comprises a key point of reference for the ever-expanding field of sensory archaeology: one that surpasses previous books in this field, both in scope and critical intent. This Handbook provides an extensive set of specially commissioned chapters, each of which summarizes and...
Springer, 2001. — 578 p. — (Natural Science in Archaeology Series). The impetus for this book was the desire to systematically organize the extant literature on the conservation of cultural property made of wood, from its beginnings before the Christian Era to the year 2000. Various published reviews and monographs, including Holzkonservierung (Wood Conserva tion) published by...
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