17th August 2013, 01:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 17th August 2013, 04:18 PM by kevin wooldridge.)
Tool Wrote:Thanks Kevin, I'll have a look at your suggestions. Do these areas get covered in an arch degree? Forgotten how much proper books cost! :0
Books are not so expensive if you have access to a good library and quite often archaeology companies may have a reference library of well thumbed reference books you can peruse. Ask your supervisor.....I am in train on a Archaeology and GIS Masters at present, so yes the books I mentioned are on my reading list...not so sure about whether undergraduate courses would cover so much detail....but I guess at least a passing reference to statistics and environmental archaeology at some point during 3 years would be expected.
The EH guidelines are very good by the way and a good intro into areas of more specialist interest (the guidelines contain an extensive bibliography of both book and journal references).
Slightly contradicting something written earlier, I think there is a point that the contribution of environmental archaeology to a project can be immense irrespective of whether the context is precisely dated....stratigraphic sequences, soil morphology sequences etc can exist, could represent a span of time of several millennia and can be reported independently without resort to precise context dating....
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publi...gy-2nd.pdf
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