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How to Do Archaeology the Right Way

by Barbara A. Purdy, Robert J. Austin ยท 2016

ISBN: 0813059550 9780813059556

Category: Social Science / Archaeology

Page count: 320

<p>With more than 50 years of field experience between the two authors, this highly regarded volume reveals how responsible archaeologists locate, excavate, and analyze sites, middens, and remains. This second edition contains new, emended, and greatly expanded chapters about recently discovered sites and the development of sophisticated technologies to record and analyze their contents more rapidly and efficiently. The volume also showcases new dating techniques and methods in excavation, preservation, and curation.</p>