New developments in archaeological science : a joint symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy February 1991 / edited by A.M. Pollard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pollard, A. M.

Royal Society (Great Britain)

British Academy.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 0068-1202 77.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 77

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Methodology.

Archaeology--Congresses.

Archaeology.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

293, 4 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, [1992]

Contents:

Preface / A M Pollard (p. viii)

Introduction / M J Aitken (p. 1-2)

Dendrochronology and Past Environmental Change (Summary) / M G L Baillie (p. 5-23)

Landscape Reconstructions in South Sweden for the Past 6000 Years (Summary) / B E Berglund (p. 25-37)

Soil Micromorphology in Archaeology (Summary) / M-A Courty (p. 39-59)

Lead Isotope Studies in the Aegean (The British Academy Project) (Summary) / N H Gale & Z A Stos-Gale (p. 63-108)

New Views of Early Mining and Extractive Metallurgy / P T Craddock (p. 109-110)

The Impact of Electron Microscopy on Ceramic Studies (Summary) / M S Tite (p. 111-131)

Geochemistry, Sources and Transport of the Stonehenge Bluestones (Summary) / O Williams-Thorpe & R S Thorpe (p. 133-161)

Counting Broken Objects: The Statistics of Ceramic Assemblages (Summary) / C R Orton & Tyers, P A (p. 163-184)

The Survival of Food Residues: New Methods of Analysis, Interpretation and Application (Summary) / R P Evershed, C Heron, S Charters & L J Goad (p. 187-208)

Food Remains, Food Webs and Ecosystems (Summary) / M K Jones (p. 209-219)

Remote Sensing in Archaeological Research (Summary) / I Shennan & D N M Donoghue (p. 223-232)

New Developments in Geophysical Prospection (Summary) / A Aspinall (p. 233-244)

Light Stable Isotopes and the Reconstruction of Prehistoric Diets (Summary) / N J van der Merwe (p. 247-264)

Biomolecular Archaeology: Past, Present and Future (Summary) / R E M Hedges & B C Sykes (p. 267-283)

The Identity and Future of Archaeological Science / A C Renfrew (p. 285-293)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0197261183

9780197261187

OCLC:

28114329