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• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements and picture credits
• Preface
• Part 1 Principles
• Chapter 1 The Stuff
• A prodigious variety
• Methods of study
• Defining archaeological strata
• Archaeological vocabulary
• Conclusion
• Briefing
• Chapter 2 Approaches
• What do we want from fieldwork?
• Empirical to reflexive: five approaches
• Evaluative archaeology
• Field Research Procedure
• Briefing
• Chapter 3 Field Research Procedure: A Framework
• A value-led project: the Sutton Hoo burial ground
• Stage 1: Reconnaissance
• Stage 2: Evaluation
• Stage 3: Project Design
• Stage 4: Implementation
• Stage 5: Analysis
• Stage 6: Publication
• Reflection
• Briefing
• Part 2 In the Field
• Chapter 4 Landscape Survey
• First day in the field
• Techniques
• Applications
• In sum …
• Briefing
• Chapter 5 Site Survey
• Looking at sites
• Techniques
• Applications
• Site survey for evaluation
• Site survey for research
• In sum …
• Briefing
• Chapter 6 Excavation
• First day on a dig
• On method: three ways of dissecting strata
• On procedure: Recovery Levels
• Recording
• The course of an excavation
• In sum …
• Briefing
• Chapter 7 Projects Galore: Integrated Field Research
• Introduction
• A cave site in Greece (FIG 7.2; no. 2 on FIG 7.1)
• A shell mound in Kentucky (FIG 7.3; no. 3 on FIG 7.1)
• On the gravels: a timber palace in northern England (FIGS 7.4, 7.5)
• On the sand: a Neolithic village by the Seine (FIG 7.6; no. 6 on FIG 7/1)
• A turf hall in Norway (FIGS 7.7 and 7.8; no. 7 on FIG 7.1)
• A stone fort in Sweden (FIG 7.9; no. 9 on FIG 7.1)
• A tell site in Syria (FIG 7.10; no. 10 on FIG 7.1)
• A terp site in Holland (FIG 7.11; no. 11 on FIG 7.1)
• A Maya ruin in Belize (FIG 7.12; no. 12 on FIG 7.1)
• A villa by the Adriatic (FIGS 7.13 and 7.14; colour plate 7; no. 13 on FIG 7.1)
• Tomb tableaux in China (Colour Plate 8a; no. 17 on FIG 7.1)
• Studying standing buildings
• Urban archaeology
• Getting wet
• In a shallow Alpine lake (FIG 7.22; no. 22 on FIG 7.1)
• Diving deep off Turkey (FIG 7.23; no. 23 on FIG 7.1)
• In sum …
• Briefing
• Part 3 Writing Up
• Chapter 8 Analysis
• The tasks: manage, assess and analyse
• The analytical programme
• Case study: Saddler Street, Durham
• Conclusion
• Briefing
• Chapter 9 Assemblage
• Retrieval
• Analysis
• Artefacts
• Biota
• Interpreting site assemblages
• Briefing
• Chapter 10 Space
• Scales of space
• Spatial patterns from excavation (FIG 10.1)
• Plotting objects
• Mapping features and structures
• Spatial patterns from site survey (FIG 10.7)
• Spatial patterns in the landscape (FIG 10.10)
• Pattern-seeking by computation
• Conclusion
• Briefing
• Chapter 11 Chronology
• The business of chronology
• Typological dating of artefacts
• Scientific dating of materials
• Using objects to date contexts
• Relative ordering of contexts
• Ordering contexts by their assemblages
• Chronology for poorly stratified sites
• The chronology of well-stratified sites
• Context seriation: Assemblages and stratification working together
• Feature sequence diagrams
• Conclusion
• Briefing
• Chapter 12 Synthesis
• Why write?
• Site models
• Interpretation
• The wider context
• Conclusion
• Briefing
• Chapter 13 Publication
• Types of output
• Archive
• Client reports
• Research reports
• Preparing a research report
• Talking to the public
• Presentation of sites
• Conclusion
• Briefing
• Part 4 Design
• Chapter 14 Project Design
• Introduction
• Field Research Procedure and its design stages
• Evaluation in town and country
• Making the resource model – rural sites
• Resource modelling for urban sites
• Contents of a Project Design
• Implementation
• Conclusion
• Briefing
• Chapter 15 Our Profession and its Context
• What sort of a state are you in?
• The research cycle
• The heritage cycle
• The creative spirit
• Briefing
• Glossary, Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• Index