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Designing experimental research in archaeology : examining technology through production and use / edited by Jeffrey R. Ferguson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeology--Experiments.
- Archaeology.
- Archaeology--Methodology.
- Archaeology--Research.
- Material culture--History.
- Material culture.
- Technology--History.
- Technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 262 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Designing Experimental Research in Archaeology is a guide for the design of archaeological experiments for both students and scholars. Experimental archaeology provides a unique opportunity to corroborate conclusions with multiple trials of repeatable experiments and can provide data otherwise unavailable to archaeologists without damaging sites, remains, or artifacts. Each chapter addresses a particular classification of material culture--ceramics, stone tools, perishable materials, composite hunting technology, butchering practices and bone tools, and experimental zooarchaeology--detailing issues that must be considered in the development of experimental archaeology projects and discussing potential pitfalls. The experiments follow coherent and consistent research designs and procedures and are placed in a theoretical context, and contributors outline methods that will serve as a guide in future experiments. This degree of standardization is uncommon in traditional archaeological research but is essential to experimental archaeology. The field has long been in need of a guide that focuses on methodology and design. This book fills that need not only for undergraduate and graduate students but for any archaeologist looking to begin an experimental research project.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Erik J. Marsh and Jeffrey R. Ferguson
- Understanding ceramic manufacturing technology : the role of experimental archaeology / Karen G. Harry
- Ceramic vessel use and use alteration : insights from experimental archaeology / Margaret E. Beck
- Flake debris and flintknapping experimentation / Philip J. Carr and Andrew P. Bradbury
- Conducting experimental research as a basis for microwear analysis / Douglas B. Bamforth
- Experimental heat alteration of lithic raw materials / Robert J. Jeske, Daniel M. Winkler, and Dustin Blodgett
- Understanding grinding technology through experimentation / Jenny L. Adams
- Retrieving the perishable past : experimentation in fiber artifact studies / Edward A. Jolie and Maxine E. McBrinn
- Weapon trials : the Atlatl and experiments in hunting technology / John Whittaker
- Replicating bone tools and other fauno technologies / Leland C. Bement
- Experimental zooarchaeology : research direction and methods / Patrick M. Lubinski and Brian S. Shaffer.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781607320234
- 1607320231
- OCLC:
- 697516577
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