The practical impact of science on Near Eastern and Aegean archaeology
By: edited by Scott Pike and Seymour Gitin.
Contributors: Pike, Scott.; Gitin, Seymour.; State University College at Buffalo. Dept. of Art Conservation.
Series: Wiener Laboratory publication -- no. 3
Publisher: Archetype Publications, for the Wiener Laboratory, American School of Classical Studies, Athens
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781873132173
Subjects: Archaeology -- Middle East -- Methodology.; Archaeology -- Greece -- Crete -- Methodology.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle East.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Crete.
Other titles: Art Conservation Department Library; Practical impact of science on field archaeology.
Notes: "This volume evolved from a workshop series entitled 'The practical impact of science on field archaeology' held in the autumn of 1996 on the campuses of the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University."--P. vii.

Art Conservation Department Library.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Sampling and recovery of non-wood plant remains / Julie Hansen; value: Phytolith analysis in Near Eastern archaeology / Arlene Miller Rosen; value: The contribution of palynology and anthracology to archaeological research in the southern Levant / Uri Baruch; value: Computerized keys for archaeological grains: first steps / Mordechai Kislev, Yoel Melamed, Orit Simchoni, Mina Marmorstein; value: Microscopic analysis of ancient fibers: problems of identifying date palms / Azriel Gorski; value: Dendroarchaeological research in Israel / Nili Liphschitz; value: Physical anthropology in the field: recognizing cremation, defleshing, exposure and secondary burial / Della Collins Cook; value: Ecology, evolution and zooarchaeology: the analysis of mammalian remains from archaeological sites / Tamar Dayan; value: Harvest profiles, domestic ovicaprids, and Broze Age Crete / Walter E. Klippel; value: The contribution of archaeozoology to the identification of ritual sites / Liora Kolska Horwitz; value: The application of ancient DNA analysis to archaeological problems: its role in studies of gender in past societies / Patricia Smith, Gila Kahila, Marina Faerman, Dvora Filon, Emanuel Eisenburg; value: Geoarchaeology: the geologic context / George (Rip) Rapp, Jr.; value: Overview of ash studies in two prehistoric caves in Israel: implications to field archaeology / Steve Weiner, Paul Goldberg, Ofer Bar-Yosef; value: Application of organic geochemistry to the study of Dead Sea asphalt in archaeological sites from Israel and Egypt / Arie Nissenbaum, Jacques Connan; value: ESR dating of archaeological flints: an unfulfilled prophecy / Ervan G. Garrison; value: The new radiocarbon dates of the Dead Sea scrolls and their significance / Magen Broshi; value: Strength-testing glass: the Hellenistic/early Roman corpus of Sepphoris, Israel; value: Contributions of petrography to the study of archaeological ceramics and man-made building materials in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean / Sarah J. Vaughan; value: Petrographic analyses of late antique and Islamic fine and coarse wares from Qasrin / Naomi Porat; value: Petrographic study of ceramic assemblages as a regional project: the early and late Broze Ages in the central Jordan valley / Yuval Goren; value: What we can learn from pottery of a sunken ship through chemical analysis / Joseph Yellin; value: Lipid biomarkers preserved in archaeological pottery: current status and future prospects / Richard P. Evershed, Stephanie N. Dudd.