Handbook of archaeological sciences. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Editors: Pollard, A. M; Armitage, Ruth Ann; Makarewicz, Cheryl
• Contents: Section 1. Dating ; Overview; Quaternary geochronological frameworks; New developments in Radiocarbon dating; Dendrochronology and archaeology; Trapped charge dating and archaeology; U-series dating; Archaeomagnetic dating; Obsidian hydration dating with SIMS; Amino acid dating; An introduction to tephrochronology and the correlation of sedimentary sequences using volcanic ash layers; ; Section 2. Quaternary Palaeoenvironments ; Overview; Modelling Quaternary Palaeoclimates; Ice core and marine sediment records of Quaternary environmental change; Insects as palaeoenvironmental and archaeological indicators; Non-marine molluscs as palaeoenvironmental indicators; Mammals as palaeoenvironmental indicators; Lake and peat records of climate change and archaeology; Archaeological soil micromorphology; Pollen and macroscopic plant remains as indicators of local and regional environments; Environmental controls on human dispersal and adaptation; Holocene climate changes and human consequences; ; Section 3. Human Bioarchaeology ; Overview; Hominin evolution; Biological distance (normal variation/non-metrical and metrical analysis); Palaeopathology; Integrating bioarchaeology and palaeodemography; Palaeodiet through stable isotope analysis; Palaeomobility through stable isotopes; Preserved human bodies; Cremated bone; ; Section 4. Biomolecular Archaeology ; Overview; Zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry (ZooMS); Archaeological proteomics; The use of immunological methods in archaeology; Lipids in archaeology; Archaeological microbiology; Dental calculus; The biomolecular archaeology of psychoactive substances; ; Section 5. Archaeogenetics ; Overview; Sex and kinship typing of human archaeological remains; Human populations ? origins and movement; Palaeogenomics of extinct and archaic humans; Palaeogenetics and palaeogenomics to study the domestication of animals; Domestication of plants; Palaeomicrobiology of human infectious diseases; ; Section 6. Biological Resource Exploitation ; Overview; Archaeobotany; Human impact on vegetation; Zooarchaeology; Coprolites/intestinal contents; Invertebrates; Secondary animal and plant products; ; Section 7. Inorganic Resource Exploitation ; Overview; Lithic exploitation and usewear analysis; Ancient binders and pigments; Materials analysis of ceramics; The archaeometry of glass; Mining and resource procurement: methods and approaches to the appropriation of mineral raw materials in past societies; Making and using metals; Provenancing inorganic materials: biography and mutability; ; Section 8. Archaeological Prospection ; Overview; Approaches to archaeological surface survey; Geophysical survey techniques; Remote sensing/LIDAR; Geochemical prospecting; Integrating survey data; ; Section 9. Burial, Decay and Archaeological Conservation ; Overview; Defining the burial environment; Metallic corrosion processes and information from corrosion products; Post-depositional changes in archaeological ceramics and glass; Deterioration of organic materials; Diagenetic alterations to vertebrate mineralized tissues; Forensic taphonomy; ; Section 10. Statistical and Computational Methods ; Overview; Spatial information in archaeology; Multivariate analysis in archaeology; The Bayesian inferential paradigm in archaeology; Quantification in zooarchaeology and palaeoethno(archaeo)botany; The use of kernel density estimates on chemical and isotopic data in archaeology; Modelling/Simulations in archaeology; Big data in archaeology;
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (2 volumes), illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 930.1; Archaeology -- Methodology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119592082; 9781119592044; 9781394156832; 9781394156849
• Related ISBNs: 9781119592044; 9781119592075
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 9, 2023).
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