Sampling in Archaeology

A comprehensive account of the techniques of sampling which are essential to modern archaeological practice.

List of contents

1. 'All the world's a sample'; 2. 'A little of what you fancy?'; 3. 'If this is the sample, what was the population?'; 4. 'Covering the ground'; 5. 'What's in a site?'; 6. 'The answer lies in the soil'; 7. 'But many sanguine people hope, to see them through a microscope'; 8. 'In its depth, what treasures?'; 9. 'Beyond random sampling'; Appendix.

Summary

Sampling in Archaeology is the only up-to-date and comprehensive account of the techniques of sampling which are essential to modern archaeological practice. It incorporates the latest developments in statistical sampling theory, and can easily be understood by students and scholars of archaeology.

Product details

• Authors: Clive Orton
• Assisted by: Graeme Barker (Editor), Elizabeth Slater (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.01.2011
• EAN: 9780521562263
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56226-3
• No. of pages: 274
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 260 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 716 g
• Series: Cambridge Manuals in Archaeolo
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity