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Microarchaeology : beyond the visible archaeological record /
The archaeological record is a combination of what is seen by eye, as well as the microscopic record revealed with the help of instrumentation. The information embedded in the microscopic record can significantly add to our understanding of past human behaviour, provided this information has not bee...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
[2010]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Archaeology, archaeological science, and microarchaeology
- Information embedded in the microscopic record
- Completeness of the archaeological record
- Common mineral components of the archaeological record
- Biological materials : bones and teeth
- Biological materials : phytoliths, diatoms, eggshells, otoliths, and mollusk shells
- Reconstructing pyrotechnological processes
- Biological molecules and macromolecules : protected niches
- Ethnoarchaeology of the microscopic record : learning from the present
- Absolute dating : assessing the quality of a date
- Reading the microscopic record on-site
- Infrared spectroscopy in archaeology
- Appendix A. Identifying minerals using microchemical analysis
- Appendix B. Identifying minerals and compounds using infrared spectra : table of standard minerals and compounds for which infrared spectra are available.