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