Archaeological Science meetings will have a personality of their own depending on the focus of the host archaeological fraternity itself. The 8th Australasian Archaeometry meeting follows this pattern but underlying the regional emphasis is the continuing concern for the processes of change in the landscape that simultaneously effect and illuminate the archaeological record. These are universal themes for any archaeological research with the increasing employment of science-based studies proving to be a key to understanding the place of humans as subjects and agents of change over time.
This collection of refereed papers covers the thematic fields of geoarchaeology, archaeobotany, materials analysis and chronometry, with particular emphasis on the first two. The editors Andrew Fairbairn, Sue O'Connor and Ben Marwick outline the special value of these contributions in the introduction. The international nature of archaeological science will mean that the advances set out in these papers will find a receptive audience among many archaeologists elsewhere. There is no doubt that the story that Australasian archaeology has to tell has been copiously enriched by incorporating a widening net of advanced science-based studies. This has brought attention to the nature of the environment as a human artefact, a fact now more widely appreciated, and archaeology deals with these artefacts, among others, in this way in this publication.
Edited by:
Andrew Fairbairn,
Sue O'Connor,
Ben Marwick
Imprint: ANU Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions:
Height: 290mm,
Width: 205mm,
Spine: 295mm
ISBN: 9781921536489
ISBN 10: 1921536489
Series: Terra Australis
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 February 2009
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Assessing the frequency distribution of radiocarbon determinations from the archaeological record of the Late Holocene in western NSW, Australia Heat-retainer hearth identification as a component of archaeological survey in western NSW, Australia Persistent places: An approach to the interpretation of assemblage variation in deflated surface stone artefact distributions from western New South Wales, Australia Developing methods for recording surface artefacts on nineteenth and twentieth century sites in Australia Late Quaternary environments and human occupation in the Murray River Valley of northwestern Victoria Seeing red: The use of a biological stain to identify cooked and processed/damaged starch grains in archaeological residues Initial tests on the three-dimensional movement of starch in sediments Re-viewing raphides: Issues with the identification and interpretation of calcium oxalate crystals in microfossil assemblages Archaeobotany of Sos Hoeyuk, northeast Turkey Amulti-disciplinary method for the investigation of early agriculture: Learning lessons from Kuk Dating marine shell in Oceania: Issues and prospects Examining Late Holocene marine reservoir effect in archaeological fauna at Hope Inlet, Beagle Gulf, north Australia Archaeological surfaces in western NSW: Stratigraphic contexts and preliminary OSL dating of hearths HPLC-MS characterisation of adsorbed residues from Early Iron Age ceramics, Gordion, Central Anatolia Melting Moments: Modelling archaeological high temperature ceramic data New approaches for integrating palaeomagnetic and mineral magnetic methods to answer archaeological and geological questions on Stone Age sites The role of the conservator in the preservation of megafaunal bone from the excavations at Cuddie Springs, NSW
