The archaeology coursebook: an introduction to themes, sites, methods and skills
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Brief
Contents
Part I Understanding archaeological resources
1
1
Archaeological reconnaissance
3
2
Excavation
25
3
Post-excavation analysis
62
4
Understanding dating in archaeology
95
5
Archaeological interpretation
110
Part II Studying themes in archaeology
131
6
Religion and ritual
133
7
The archaeology of settlement
197
8
Material culture and economics
233
9
People and society in the past
291
Part III Issues in world archeology
339
10
Managing the past
341
11
Presenting the past
363
Part IV Examination success and beyond
377
12
Studying for success in archaeology exams
379
13
Doing an archaeological project
400
14
Additional resources
423
Appendix Answers and mark schemes
429
Glossary of terms and abbreviations
430
Bibliography
439
Index
444
Contents
List of figures
xvii
Acknowledgements
xxiii
Illustration acknowledgements
xxiv
INTRODUCTION
xxvi
How to use this text
xxviii
PART I UNDERSTANDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESOURCES
1
1
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE
3
Desktop study
4
Historical documents
4
Maps
7
Surface surveys
8
Recording standing buildings
9
Fieldwalking
11
Geochemical
prospection
14
Geophysical surveys
15
Resistivity survey
15
Magnetometer surveying
16
Caesium vapour
(CV)
magnetometers
18
Other methods
18
Aerial photography
19
Verticals and obliques
20
Shadow sites
20
Cropmarks
20
Soil marks
23
Remote sensing
24
VÜi
Я;
CONTENTS
2
EXCAVATION
25
Why excavate?
25
Key study: Chester Amphitheatre project
27
Types of excavation
29
Research excavations
29
Rescue excavations
30
Excavation strategies and the process of excavation
32
How to dig?
34
Ρ
I an
u m
excavation
39
Key site: Boxgrove
40
The process of excavation
42
Recovery of environmental material
42
What records do archaeologists create?
44
Context sheets
44
Plans
46
Section drawings
46
Photographs
49
Special cases
49
Archaeology of standing buildings
50
Wetland archaeology
51
Key study: Star Can- revisited
53
Underwater archaeology
55
Urban archaeology
56
Forensic archaeology
59
After excavation
59
3
POST-EXCAVATION ANALYSIS
62
Initial processing and conservation
63
Visual examination and recording
64
Ceramics
65
Analysis of particular inorganic materials
68
Lithics
68
Petrology
69
Metallurgical analysis
69
Analysis of organic remains
72
So/7
72
Faunal remains
72
Human remains
75
Key site: The %Amesbury Archer'
79
Organic artefacts
80
Plants
80
CONTENTS
IX
Plant macrofossils
Plant microfossils
Invertebrates
Key
study: The decline of the Maya
Archaeometry
Characterisation studies
Spectrometry
X-ray fluorescence
Neutron activation analysis (NAA)
Atomic absorption spectrometry
(AAS)
Isotopie
analysis
Organic residue analysis
Is archaeology a science?
Key study:
Ötzi
the Iceman
After analysis
80
84
86
87
89
89
89
90
90
91
91
91
92
93
94
UNDERSTANDING DATING IN ARCHAEOLOGY
Periods in archaeology
Historical dating
Relative dating
Typology
Seriation
Geoarchaeological dating
Obsidian hydration
Chemical dating of bones
Absolute or
Chronometrie
dating
Dendrochronology (tree ring dating)
Radiocarbon dating
A second dating revolution? The application of Bayesian
statistical analysis
Thermoluminescence (TL)
Potassium-argon dating
Other absolute dating techniques
95
95
96
97
97
98
99
100
101
101
101
102
105
107
107
107
5
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
Transformation processes
Formation processes
How does archaeology get buried?
Post-depositional factors
110
112
112
113
114
її
CONTENTS
Recovery factors
117
Analysing spatial patterns
118
Key study: Seahenge
119
Making sense of the data
119
Key sites: Danebury and Butser
120
Historical accounts or documents of past societies
122
Key study: San Jose
Mogote
123
Ethnography or anthropology
124
Actualistic studies
125
Why do archaeologists offer different interpretations of the past?
129
PART II STUDYING THEMES IN ARCHAEOLOGY
131
6
RELIGION AND RITUAL
133
What is religion?
134
What is the function of religion?
135
Key study: The Temple of the Inscriptions at
Palenque
136
Detecting evidence of past beliefs and practices
137
What kinds of religion were there?
138
Major deities
138
Ancestral spirits
139
Animism
139
Animatism
140
Religious change
141
Ritual activity
142
Rites of passage
142
Rites of intensification
143
Funerary ceremonies
143
Mortuary rituals
144
Funerary monuments and grave goods
145
Identifying ritual and ritual sites
146
Landscape, ritual and belief
149
Religious specialists
149
Priests and priestesses
149
Shamans
150
Religion and ritual in European Prehistory 40,000-ad
43 151
Upper Palaeolithic Europe
40,000-10,000
bp
152
Mesolithic Europe c.10,000-4,500
в
Ρ
154
CONTENTS
ЇЙ
XI
The early to middle Neolithic C.4500-C.3000
вс
155
Key study: A ritual landscape in west Sligo
156
Key study: Newgrange
159
The later Neolithic and early Bronze Age c.3000-1800
вс
162
Key study: The
Clava
Cairns
164
The Middle Bronze Age
2300
(or
1800)
to
1200
вс
167
Key study: Stonehenge
168
The Late Bronze Age and Iron Age
1200-55
вс
172
Key study: Flag Fen
173
Key study: Wetwang Slack
175
A brief introduction to Roman religion and ritual to
с
ad
476 178
Key study: The Temple of Mithras
179
Key study: The Temple of Vesta
182
Key site: The Water Newton Treasure
186
Key site: Lullingstone Villa
188
A brief introduction to Ancient Egyptian religion and ritual
189
Key study: The Temple of
Karnak
at Luxor
192
7
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SETTLEMENT
197
What does the archaeology of settlement cover?
197
Key study: Nunamiut ethnoarchaeology
200
Reconstructing ancient landscapes
200
The land surface
200
The environment
201
Seasonal ity
202
Identifying human use of the landscape
202
Key site:
H
ay ley Wood
203
Key study: Early medieval settlement in the Cotswolds
204
Key site: Head Smashed In
205
Site catchment analysis
207
Studying spatial distribution
208
Key study: Mesolithic hunters of the
Trentino
209
The social landscape: territory and boundaries
213
Key study: Isotopes, diet and territory
214
Identifying the functions) of archaeological sites
215
Key study; Minoan settlement hierarchy
217
How are different types of activity identified on
archaeological sites?
218
Key studies: Interpreting Iron Age hill forts
220
The use of space on archaeological sites
222
Key study: Mashkan Shapir
224
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I CONTENTS
Understanding structures
226
Key studies: The Mask site and Pincevent
227
Key study: Black Patch
228
Key study: Gurness
229
8
MATERIAL CULTURE AND ECONOMICS
233
Subsistence: how did people in the past feed themselves?
233
Identifying the nature of exploitation
235
Tracing developments in human exploitation of animals
236
Key site:
Stellmoor 237
Key studies: Baltic foragers of the late Mesolithic
240
Key site: Tell Abu Hureyra
242
Explaining the change to food production
246
Identifying human exploitation of plants
250
Key study: Ceide Fields
252
The introduction of dairying
255
Storage
256
Key site:
Knossos
and the
M
moan palaces
258
Key studies: Early writing systems
262
Intensification of farming
264
Communications
265
Trade and exchange
266
Reciprocity
267
Redistribution
268
Market exchange
268
Identifying the signatures of different modes of exchange
270
Key study: The Canaanite Amphorae Project
271
Key sites: Four Mediterranean shipwrecks
272
Problems with exchange
275
Studying materials
276
Acquisition of materials
276
Key site: The Sweet Track
277
Manufacture
279
Key study: Bushcraft Mesolithic style
280
Specialisation
283
Identifying specialists in the archaeological record
283
Key study:
Copan
284
Art
286
Key site: Upton Lovell
287
Key study: The Basse-Yutz flagons
289
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9
PEOPLE AND SOCIETY IN THE PAST
291
What is social archaeology?
291
Forms of social and political organisation
292
Social complexity
296
Key study: the Palette of Narmer
297
Power and social control
298
The archaeology of rank and status
298
Burial evidence
301
Key study: Branc
302
Settlement evidence
302
Key study: Military technology and organisation -The Illerup Hoard
303
Artefactual evidence
307
The archaeology of gender
308
Human remains
309
Graves and grave goods
310
Key study: The Omaha
311
Settlement evidence
312
Artistic sources
312
Population and ethnicity
312
Key study: You are what you eat
314
Key study: West Heslerton and Lech lade
317
DNA
and the origins of modern Europeans
320
Social change
325
Social conflict
325
Key sites: Nimrud and Nineveh
326
Warfare
327
Human origins
328
What are the bases of evidence?
328
What is the earliest evidence for complex social behaviour?
331
Out of Africa I
332
How early did hunting begin?
332
The Neanderthal Enigma
333
'Out of Africa II' vs multiregionalism
334
The multi-region or candelabra model
334
Key study: Beads
336
The replacement model and Noah's Ark theory
338
How early was the 'Creative Explosion'?
338
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CONTENTS
PART
III
ISSUES IN WORLD
ARCHAEOLOGY
339
10 MANAGING
THE PAST
341
Threats to archaeological remains
341
Global threats to archaeology
343
Key study: The Monuments at Risk Survey of England (MARS),
1998 344
The protection of archaeological remains
345
Scheduled monuments
345
Other protective legislation for sites
346
Protection through the planning process: PPG
16 347
The effects of PPG
16 347
The language of PPG
16 348
Key study: The North Sea: a new frontier in Heritage Management
351
Protection of artefacts
354
Who are the archaeologists?
354
Key site: Stonehenge
355
Learned and excavation societies
357
The rescue era
357
Archaeology today
358
Metal detecting
359
Cultural resource management
359
Key site: Castell Henllys
361
Specialists and scientists
362
Campaign and lobby groups
362
11
PRESENTING THE PAST
363
Which past?
363
The political use of archaeology
363
Archaeology and land rights
365
Archaeology and identity
365
Key studies: Kennewick Man
366
Key study: The Corinium Museum, Cirencester
370
Key studies: New modes of communication
371
Communicating archaeological knowledge
372
Key study: The ^reconstructed' Anglo-Saxon village of West Stow
374
Applying communication issues on your course
375
PART IV EXAMINATION SUCCESS AND BEYOND
377
12
STUDYING FOR SUCCESS IN ARCHAEOLOGY EXAMS
379
Making useful and well organised notes
379
CONTENTS
XV
Successful note-taking
Getting useful case studies together
Handling contradictory accounts
Command words
Tackling Interpretation questions
Starting to construct arguments
Developing extended arguments
Writing essays
Writing evaluative essays on concepts
Referencing
Improving your essays
Successful revision
Cataloguing your portfolio
Reducing information onto cards
Revision activities
Mix and match
Make up mnemonics
Mindmaps
Visual reminders
Playing games
Tackling exam papers
In the exam
And finally
. . .
383
384
386
386
388
388
390
392
392
393
393
393
394
395
395
395
395
397
397
397
397
399
13
DOING AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT
How to choose a topic
It must be archaeological
You must be able to access your sources
Basic research opportunities
Sites and monuments
Example
1:
Studford Ring
Example
2:
Stone axes
Artefacts
Fieldwalking
Archaeology from the modern period
Example
3:
Industrial archaeology: a canal
Experimental archaeology
Where to get help and advice
Example
4:
Experiment
-
spindle whorls
National resources
Museums
400
400
400
401
402
403
404
406
407
408
408
410
411
411
412
413
413
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CONTENTS
Units
414
Libraries
415
Planning and managing time and word limits
415
Example
5:
World War
2
army camp
416
Recording evidence
418
Recording sites or features
418
Recording excavations
420
Recording buildings
420
Recording artefacts
420
Writing up
421
Plagiarism
421
Presentation
421
14
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
423
Studying archaeology in the UK
423
Introductory courses
423
AS and A Level Archaeology
423
AS level (first half of A level)
424
A2 (second half of A level)
424
Degree level study
424
Market forces
425
League tables
425
Stepping up to degree level
425
Finding the best information
426
Twenty very useful books
426
General texts
426
Archaeological sources and methods
426
Period studies
426
Archaeological themes
426
Archaeology booksellers
427
Journals
427
Gateway websites
427
Places to visit
427
Twenty museums to visit
428
Recreations and experimental sites
428
Visits to archaeological monuments
428
APPENDIX: ANSWERS AND MARK SCHEMES
429
GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
430
BIBLIOGRAPHY
439
INDEX
444 |
| adam_txt |
Brief
Contents
Part I Understanding archaeological resources
1
1
Archaeological reconnaissance
3
2
Excavation
25
3
Post-excavation analysis
62
4
Understanding dating in archaeology
95
5
Archaeological interpretation
110
Part II Studying themes in archaeology
131
6
Religion and ritual
133
7
The archaeology of settlement
197
8
Material culture and economics
233
9
People and society in the past
291
Part III Issues in world archeology
339
10
Managing the past
341
11
Presenting the past
363
Part IV Examination success and beyond
377
12
Studying for success in archaeology exams
379
13
Doing an archaeological project
400
14
Additional resources
423
Appendix Answers and mark schemes
429
Glossary of terms and abbreviations
430
Bibliography
439
Index
444
Contents
List of figures
xvii
Acknowledgements
xxiii
Illustration acknowledgements
xxiv
INTRODUCTION
xxvi
How to use this text
xxviii
PART I UNDERSTANDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESOURCES
1
1
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE
3
Desktop study
4
Historical documents
4
Maps
7
Surface surveys
8
Recording standing buildings
9
Fieldwalking
11
Geochemical
prospection
14
Geophysical surveys
15
Resistivity survey
15
Magnetometer surveying
16
Caesium vapour
(CV)
magnetometers
18
Other methods
18
Aerial photography
19
Verticals and obliques
20
Shadow sites
20
Cropmarks
20
Soil marks
23
Remote sensing
24
VÜi
Я;
CONTENTS
2
EXCAVATION
25
Why excavate?
25
Key study: Chester Amphitheatre project
27
Types of excavation
29
Research excavations
29
Rescue excavations
30
Excavation strategies and the process of excavation
32
How to dig?
34
Ρ
I an
u m
excavation
39
Key site: Boxgrove
40
The process of excavation
42
Recovery of environmental material
42
What records do archaeologists create?
44
Context sheets
44
Plans
46
Section drawings
46
Photographs
49
Special cases
49
Archaeology of standing buildings
50
Wetland archaeology
51
Key study: Star Can- revisited
53
Underwater archaeology
55
Urban archaeology
56
Forensic archaeology
59
After excavation
59
3
POST-EXCAVATION ANALYSIS
62
Initial processing and conservation
63
Visual examination and recording
64
Ceramics
65
Analysis of particular inorganic materials
68
Lithics
68
Petrology
69
Metallurgical analysis
69
Analysis of organic remains
72
So/7
72
Faunal remains
72
Human remains
75
Key site: The %Amesbury Archer'
79
Organic artefacts
80
Plants
80
CONTENTS
IX
Plant macrofossils
Plant microfossils
Invertebrates
Key
study: The decline of the Maya
Archaeometry
Characterisation studies
Spectrometry
X-ray fluorescence
Neutron activation analysis (NAA)
Atomic absorption spectrometry
(AAS)
Isotopie
analysis
Organic residue analysis
Is archaeology a science?
Key study:
Ötzi
the Iceman
After analysis
80
84
86
87
89
89
89
90
90
91
91
91
92
93
94
UNDERSTANDING DATING IN ARCHAEOLOGY
Periods in archaeology
Historical dating
Relative dating
Typology
Seriation
Geoarchaeological dating
Obsidian hydration
Chemical dating of bones
Absolute or
Chronometrie
dating
Dendrochronology (tree ring dating)
Radiocarbon dating
A second dating revolution? The application of Bayesian
statistical analysis
Thermoluminescence (TL)
Potassium-argon dating
Other absolute dating techniques
95
95
96
97
97
98
99
100
101
101
101
102
105
107
107
107
5
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
Transformation processes
Formation processes
How does archaeology get buried?
Post-depositional factors
110
112
112
113
114
її
CONTENTS
Recovery factors
117
Analysing spatial patterns
118
Key study: Seahenge
119
Making sense of the data
119
Key sites: Danebury and Butser
120
Historical accounts or documents of past societies
122
Key study: San Jose
Mogote
123
Ethnography or anthropology
124
Actualistic studies
125
Why do archaeologists offer different interpretations of the past?
129
PART II STUDYING THEMES IN ARCHAEOLOGY
131
6
RELIGION AND RITUAL
133
What is religion?
134
What is the function of religion?
135
Key study: The Temple of the Inscriptions at
Palenque
136
Detecting evidence of past beliefs and practices
137
What kinds of religion were there?
138
Major deities
138
Ancestral spirits
139
Animism
139
Animatism
140
Religious change
141
Ritual activity
142
Rites of passage
142
Rites of intensification
143
Funerary ceremonies
143
Mortuary rituals
144
Funerary monuments and grave goods
145
Identifying ritual and ritual sites
146
Landscape, ritual and belief
149
Religious specialists
149
Priests and priestesses
149
Shamans
150
Religion and ritual in European Prehistory 40,000-ad
43 151
Upper Palaeolithic Europe
40,000-10,000
bp
152
Mesolithic Europe c.10,000-4,500
в
Ρ
154
CONTENTS
ЇЙ
XI
The early to middle Neolithic C.4500-C.3000
вс
155
Key study: A ritual landscape in west Sligo
156
Key study: Newgrange
159
The later Neolithic and early Bronze Age c.3000-1800
вс
162
Key study: The
Clava
Cairns
164
The Middle Bronze Age
2300
(or
1800)
to
1200
вс
167
Key study: Stonehenge
168
The Late Bronze Age and Iron Age
1200-55
вс
172
Key study: Flag Fen
173
Key study: Wetwang Slack
175
A brief introduction to Roman religion and ritual to
с
ad
476 178
Key study: The Temple of Mithras
179
Key study: The Temple of Vesta
182
Key site: The Water Newton Treasure
186
Key site: Lullingstone Villa
188
A brief introduction to Ancient Egyptian religion and ritual
189
Key study: The Temple of
Karnak
at Luxor
192
7
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SETTLEMENT
197
What does the archaeology of settlement cover?
197
Key study: Nunamiut ethnoarchaeology
200
Reconstructing ancient landscapes
200
The land surface
200
The environment
201
Seasonal ity
202
Identifying human use of the landscape
202
Key site:
H
ay ley Wood
203
Key study: Early medieval settlement in the Cotswolds
204
Key site: Head Smashed In
205
Site catchment analysis
207
Studying spatial distribution
208
Key study: Mesolithic hunters of the
Trentino
209
The social landscape: territory and boundaries
213
Key study: Isotopes, diet and territory
214
Identifying the functions) of archaeological sites
215
Key study; Minoan settlement hierarchy
217
How are different types of activity identified on
archaeological sites?
218
Key studies: Interpreting Iron Age hill forts
220
The use of space on archaeological sites
222
Key study: Mashkan Shapir
224
XU
I CONTENTS
Understanding structures
226
Key studies: The Mask site and Pincevent
227
Key study: Black Patch
228
Key study: Gurness
229
8
MATERIAL CULTURE AND ECONOMICS
233
Subsistence: how did people in the past feed themselves?
233
Identifying the nature of exploitation
235
Tracing developments in human exploitation of animals
236
Key site:
Stellmoor 237
Key studies: Baltic foragers of the late Mesolithic
240
Key site: Tell Abu Hureyra
242
Explaining the change to food production
246
Identifying human exploitation of plants
250
Key study: Ceide Fields
252
The introduction of dairying
255
Storage
256
Key site:
Knossos
and the
M
moan palaces
258
Key studies: Early writing systems
262
Intensification of farming
264
Communications
265
Trade and exchange
266
Reciprocity
267
Redistribution
268
Market exchange
268
Identifying the signatures of different modes of exchange
270
Key study: The Canaanite Amphorae Project
271
Key sites: Four Mediterranean shipwrecks
272
Problems with exchange
275
Studying materials
276
Acquisition of materials
276
Key site: The Sweet Track
277
Manufacture
279
Key study: Bushcraft Mesolithic style
280
Specialisation
283
Identifying specialists in the archaeological record
283
Key study:
Copan
284
Art
286
Key site: Upton Lovell
287
Key study: The Basse-Yutz flagons
289
Contents
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9
PEOPLE AND SOCIETY IN THE PAST
291
What is social archaeology?
291
Forms of social and political organisation
292
Social complexity
296
Key study: the Palette of Narmer
297
Power and social control
298
The archaeology of rank and status
298
Burial evidence
301
Key study: Branc
302
Settlement evidence
302
Key study: Military technology and organisation -The Illerup Hoard
303
Artefactual evidence
307
The archaeology of gender
308
Human remains
309
Graves and grave goods
310
Key study: The Omaha
311
Settlement evidence
312
Artistic sources
312
Population and ethnicity
312
Key study: You are what you eat
314
Key study: West Heslerton and Lech lade
317
DNA
and the origins of modern Europeans
320
Social change
325
Social conflict
325
Key sites: Nimrud and Nineveh
326
Warfare
327
Human origins
328
What are the bases of evidence?
328
What is the earliest evidence for complex social behaviour?
331
Out of Africa I
332
How early did hunting begin?
332
The Neanderthal Enigma
333
'Out of Africa II' vs multiregionalism
334
The multi-region or candelabra model
334
Key study: Beads
336
The replacement model and Noah's Ark theory
338
How early was the 'Creative Explosion'?
338
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ä
CONTENTS
PART
III
ISSUES IN WORLD
ARCHAEOLOGY
339
10 MANAGING
THE PAST
341
Threats to archaeological remains
341
Global threats to archaeology
343
Key study: The Monuments at Risk Survey of England (MARS),
1998 344
The protection of archaeological remains
345
Scheduled monuments
345
Other protective legislation for sites
346
Protection through the planning process: PPG
16 347
The effects of PPG
16 347
The language of PPG
16 348
Key study: The North Sea: a new frontier in Heritage Management
351
Protection of artefacts
354
Who are the archaeologists?
354
Key site: Stonehenge
355
Learned and excavation societies
357
The rescue era
357
Archaeology today
358
Metal detecting
359
Cultural resource management
359
Key site: Castell Henllys
361
Specialists and scientists
362
Campaign and lobby groups
362
11
PRESENTING THE PAST
363
Which past?
363
The political use of archaeology
363
Archaeology and land rights
365
Archaeology and identity
365
Key studies: Kennewick Man
366
Key study: The Corinium Museum, Cirencester
370
Key studies: New modes of communication
371
Communicating archaeological knowledge
372
Key study: The ^reconstructed' Anglo-Saxon village of West Stow
374
Applying communication issues on your course
375
PART IV EXAMINATION SUCCESS AND BEYOND
377
12
STUDYING FOR SUCCESS IN ARCHAEOLOGY EXAMS
379
Making useful and well organised notes
379
CONTENTS
XV
Successful note-taking
Getting useful case studies together
Handling contradictory accounts
Command words
Tackling Interpretation questions
Starting to construct arguments
Developing extended arguments
Writing essays
Writing evaluative essays on concepts
Referencing
Improving your essays
Successful revision
Cataloguing your portfolio
Reducing information onto cards
Revision activities
Mix and match
Make up mnemonics
Mindmaps
Visual reminders
Playing games
Tackling exam papers
In the exam
And finally
. . .
383
384
386
386
388
388
390
392
392
393
393
393
394
395
395
395
395
397
397
397
397
399
13
DOING AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT
How to choose a topic
It must be archaeological
You must be able to access your sources
Basic research opportunities
Sites and monuments
Example
1:
Studford Ring
Example
2:
Stone axes
Artefacts
Fieldwalking
Archaeology from the modern period
Example
3:
Industrial archaeology: a canal
Experimental archaeology
Where to get help and advice
Example
4:
Experiment
-
spindle whorls
National resources
Museums
400
400
400
401
402
403
404
406
407
408
408
410
411
411
412
413
413
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CONTENTS
Units
414
Libraries
415
Planning and managing time and word limits
415
Example
5:
World War
2
army camp
416
Recording evidence
418
Recording sites or features
418
Recording excavations
420
Recording buildings
420
Recording artefacts
420
Writing up
421
Plagiarism
421
Presentation
421
14
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
423
Studying archaeology in the UK
423
Introductory courses
423
AS and A Level Archaeology
423
AS level (first half of A level)
424
A2 (second half of A level)
424
Degree level study
424
Market forces
425
League tables
425
Stepping up to degree level
425
Finding the best information
426
Twenty very useful books
426
General texts
426
Archaeological sources and methods
426
Period studies
426
Archaeological themes
426
Archaeology booksellers
427
Journals
427
Gateway websites
427
Places to visit
427
Twenty museums to visit
428
Recreations and experimental sites
428
Visits to archaeological monuments
428
APPENDIX: ANSWERS AND MARK SCHEMES
429
GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
430
BIBLIOGRAPHY
439
INDEX
444 |
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