Field Archaeology

This introductory work provides valuable insight into the scope, approaches, methods, practice and analysis of field archaeology. Ranging from clarity of aims of a field project, preliminary study to undertaking various forms of field survey to analysis and excavation report this work provides the reader with an appreciation of the multifarious work of the field archaeologist. The various core strands of field archaeology are made apparent to the reader with authority and clarity in this work as are a range of associate areas in archaeology including issues of public access to field archaeology and archaeology and time management and division of tasks.

Areas this work addresses include:
Planning a field archaeology project
Equipment
Aerial survey
Field walking
Landscape
Digitisation
Topographic survey
Geophysical survey
Excavation
Stratigraphy
Team dynamics
Underwater archaeology
Illustrations
Cleaning of artifacts
Storage of artifacts
Analysis of finds
Sampling
The excavation report
Statistics
Public access
Evidence v interpretation
Scale of project
Archaeology of identity
Environmental archaeology

A range of illustrations are deployed in this work including photographs of work undertaken in field archaeology in Britain, Spain, China and in other parts of the world, charts, maps and tables.

This electronic book is the equivalent of circa 79 A4 Pages