How to do archaeology the right way / Barbara A. Purdy and Robert J. Austin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Purdy, Barbara A., author.

Austin, Robert J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Methodology.

Archaeology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]

Summary:

With more than 50 years of field experience between the two authors, this highly regarded volume reveals how responsible archaeologists locate, excavate, and analyze sites, middens, and remains. This second edition contains new, emended, and greatly expanded chapters about recently discovered sites and the development of sophisticated technologies to record and analyze their contents more rapidly and efficiently. The volume also showcases new dating techniques and methods in excavation, preservation, and curation.

Contents:

Artifacts and the lifestyles of the people who made them

Survey and excavation methods and their importance

Analysis of materials recovered from archaeological sites

Dating artifacts and archaeological sites

Degradation, preservation, and curation

The cultural and environmental heritage entombed in Florida's waterlogged sites

Cultural resource laws and regulations

Applying archaeological methods in cultural resource management.

Notes:

Originally published: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-299) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5955-0

OCLC:

1038484722