Exploring the role of analytical scale in archaeological interpretation
By: edited by James R. Mathieu, Rachel E. Scott.
Contributors: Mathieu, James R.; Scott, Rachel E.; Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
Series: BAR international series ;; 1261
Publisher: Archaeopress; British Archaeological Reports; British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Archaeometry -- Congresses; Archaeology -- Methodology -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Revised versions of eleven presentations from a symposium session entitled "Continuity and Change: The Role of Analytical Scale in European Archaeology" organized for the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held in Philadelphia, Pa., April 2000.
Table of contents: title: Exploring the role of analytical scale in archaeological interpretation / James R. Mathieu and Rachel E. Scott; title: Scale factors in early European farming / Peter Bogucki; title: Analytical scale, populations, and the mesolithic-neolithic transition in the far north-west of Europe / Timothy Darvill; title: Scale and its discontents / D. Blair Gibson; title: The four scales of technical analysis; or, how to make archaeometry more useful / Elizabeth Hamilton; title: Faces in a crowd or a crowd of faces? Archaeological evidence for individual and group identity in early Anglo-Saxon East Anglia / Genevieve Fisher; title: The city and complexity: change and continuity in late antique Volterra / Rae Ostman; title: Distinguishing the local from the regional: Irish perspectives on urbanization in early Medieval Europe / John Soderberg; title: Patterns in time and the tempo of change: a north Atlantic perspective on the evolution of complex societies / Kevin P. Smith.