Research Catalog

Title

Material evidence : learning from archaeological practice / edited by Robert Chapman and Alison Wylie.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chapman, Robert, 1949-
• Wylie, Alison

Description

xx, 361 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Archaeology > Methodology
• Material culture
• Archaeology > Philosophy

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Material evidence: learning from archaeological practice / Alison Wylie and Robert Chapman -- Part I. Fieldwork and recording conventions -- Repeating the unrepeatable experiment / Richard Bradley -- Experimental archaeology at the cross roads: a contribution to interpretation or evidence of xeroxing / Martin Bell -- Proportional representation: multiple voices in archaeological interpretation at çatalhöyük / Shahina Farid -- Integrating database design and use into recording methodologies / Michael J. Rains -- The tyranny of typologies: evidential reasoning in romano-egyptian domestic archaeology / Anna Lucille Boozer -- Part II. Cross-field trade: archaeological applications of external expertise and technologies -- The archaeological bazaar: scientific methods for sale? or: putting the "arch" back into archaeometry / A. M. Pollard and P. Bray -- Radiocarbon dating and archaeology: history, progress and present status / Sturt W. Manning -- Using evidence from natural sciences in archaeology / David Killick -- Working the digital: some thoughts from landscape archaeology / Marcos Llobera -- Crafting knowledge with (digital) visual media in archaeology / Sara Perry -- Part III. Multiple working hypotheses, strategies of elimination, and triangulation -- Uncertain on principle: combining lines of archaeological evidence to create chronologies / Alex Bayliss and Alasdair Whittle -- Lessons from modelling neolithic farming practice: methods of elimination / Amy Bogaard -- Evidence, archaeology and law: an initial exploration / Roger M. Thomas -- Law and archaeology: modified wigmorean analysis / Terence Anderson and William Twining -- Traditional knowledge, archaeological evidence, and other ways of knowing / George Nicholas and Nola Markey -- Part IV. Broader perspectives: material culture as object and evidence -- Evidence of what? on the possibilities of archaeological interpretation / Gavin Lucas -- Meeting pasts halfway: a consideration of the ontology of material evidence in archaeology / Andrew Meirion Jones -- Matter and facts: material culture and the history of science / Simon Werrett.

Call Number

JFE 15-4747

ISBN

• 9780415837453 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 0415837456 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9780415837460 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0415837464 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781315739274 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014029219

OCLC

890178313

Title

Material evidence : learning from archaeological practice / edited by Robert Chapman and Alison Wylie.

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Chapman, Robert, 1949- editor.

Wylie, Alison, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-4747