Principles of archaeological stratigraphy
Harris, Edward C.198910UU
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The first edition of this text appeared in 1979 as a result of the invention by the author of the Harris Matrix - a method for analyzing and presenting the stratigraphic sequences of archaeological sites. The book covers a principle of all archaeological excavations and provides a data description and analysis tool for all such digs. This book is the only text devoted entirely to archaeological stratigraphy, a subject of fundamental importance to most studies in archaeology. The first edition appeared in 1979 as a result of the invention, by the author, of the Harris Matrix-a method for analyzing and presenting the stratigraphic sequences of archaeological sites. The method is now widely used in archaeology all over the world. The opening chapters of this edition discuss the historical development of the ideas of archaeological stratigraphy. The central chapters examine the laws and basic concepts of the subject, and the last few chapters look at methods of recording stratification, constructing stratigraphic sequences, and the analysis of stratification and artifacts. The final chapter, which is followed by a glossary of stratigraphic terms, gives an outline of a modern system for recording stratification on archaeological sites. This book is written in a simple style suitable for the student or amateur. The radical ideas set out should also give the professional archaeologist food for thought.
Main title:
Principles of archaeological stratigraphy / Edward C. Harris.
Author:
Edition:
2nd rev.ed.
Imprint:
Oxford : Academic Press Inc.(London) Ltd : [distributor] Elsevier Books Customer Services : [distributor] Elsevier Australia : [distributor] Elsevier Australia : [distributor] Elsevier Science B V : [distributor] Elsevier Science Inc, 1989.
Collation:
170 p. ; 23x15 cm.
Notes:
Hardback.
Audience:
Undergraduate.
ISBN:
9780123266514 (hbk)0123266513 (hbk)
Dewey class:
930.10283
Local class:
930.1
Language:
English
Index terms:
Archaeology
BRN:
1633545
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