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Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory. Volume 5

✍ Scribed by Michael B. Schiffer

Publisher: Academic Press
Year: 1982
Tongue: English
Leaves: 481
Category: Library

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Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 5 presents the progressive explorations in methods and theory in archeology. This book provides information pertinent to the developments in urban archeology.

Organized into nine chapters, this volume begins with an overview of cultural resource management developed to assess the significance of, and to manage the cultural resources on public lands. This text then explores the basic aspects of natural and human-caused changes on the portion of the archaeological resource base consisting of archaeological sites. Other chapters consider the practice of urban archeology in the United States, with emphasis on the relationships between human behavior and material culture in an urban setting. This book discusses as well the applications of computer graphics in archeology. The final chapter deals with the types of skeletal and population changes that accompany malnutrition.

This book is a valuable resource for anthropologist, archaeologists, urban planners, and graduate students.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Advisory Board, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Contributors, Page ix
Contents of Previous Volumes, Pages xi-xiii
1 - Cultural Resources Management, Pages 1-50, DON D. FOWLER
2 - The Study of Impacts on Archaeological Sites, Pages 51-96, LESLIE E. WILDESEN
3 - Advances in Urban Archaeology, Pages 97-149, EDWARD STASKI
4 - Avenues of Inquiry in Historical Archaeology, Pages 151-177, KATHLEEN DEAGAN
5 - Archaeological Applications of Computer Graphics, Pages 179-216, J. BARTO ARNOLD III
6 - Quantifying Archaeological Research, Pages 217-273, G.A. CLARK
7 - Ceramic Compositional Analysis in Archaeological Perspective, Pages 275-330, RONALD L. BISHOP, ROBERT L. RANDS, GEORGE R. HOLLEY
8 - Archaeofaunas and Subsistence Studies, Pages 331-393, R. LEE LYMAN
9 - Nutritional Inference from Paleopathology, Pages 395-474, REBECCA HUSS-ASHMORE, ALAN H. GOODMAN, GEORGE J. ARMELAGOS
Subject Index, Pages 475-478

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