The first overview of sampling for archaeologists for over twenty years, this manual offers a comprehensive account of the application of statistical sampling theory that is essential to modern archaeological practice, at a range of scales, from the regional to the microscopic. It includes a discussion of the relevance of sampling theory to archaeological interpretation, and considers its fundamental place in fieldwork and post excavation study. It demonstrates the vast range of techniques that are available, only some of which are widely used by archaeologists. A section on statistical theory also reviews the latest developments in the field, and the presentation is clear and user friendly. The formal mathematics is available in an appendix, which is cross-referenced with the main text.
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"...probably one of the best books written on sampling and sampling statistics...I would recommend it most highly, as it provides one of the most succinct assessments of sampling in archaeology to date." Canadian Journal of Archaeology
"This book provides good advice on designing and planning archaelogical studies and contains an extensive up-to-date bibliography." Journal of Anthropological Research
"This book provides good advice on designing and planning archaelogical studies and contains an extensive up-to-date bibliography." Journal of Anthropological Research
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The only up-to-date and comprehensive account of the techniques of sampling which are essential to modern archaeological practice, this manual explains complex statistical issues in a way that can be easily understood by field archaeologists and students alike. It incorporates the latest developments in statistical sampling theory which are starting to make their impact on archaeological practice. Clive Orton's other publications include Mathematics in Archeology and, with Ian Hoder, Spatial Analysis in Archaeology.
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No archaeologist should be without this book, which describes in simple, sensible language just exactly what is involved in the proper sampling of archaeological populations. Sampling design and sample size receive excellent treatment, and the book describes the very useful adaptive sampling, a method with which few archaeologists are very familiar, in some detail. Paleoethnobotanists/archaeobotanists will do well to pay attention to his discussion of "ratios of ratios" to account for differential preservation.
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Reading almost any archaeological document, from a research proposal to a fieldwork report, it will not be long before one comes across the word 'sample' in one context or another. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
adaptive cluster sampling, ill archaeology, statistical sampling theory, iii archaeology, archaeological sampling, sampling fraction, column sampling, archaeological inference, adaptive sampling, textural analysis, significant archaeological, twelve stages, pilot survey, archaeological practice, sampling units, pilot sample, sampled population Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Museum of London, East Hampshire Survey, Agro Pontino, Field Archaeology Unit, Charnham Lane, Newbury Sewage Works, English Heritage, Risk Survey, Chevelon Archaeological Research Project, Horniman Museum New!
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Reading almost any archaeological document, from a research proposal to a fieldwork report, it will not be long before one comes across the word 'sample' in one context or another. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
adaptive cluster sampling, ill archaeology, statistical sampling theory, iii archaeology, archaeological sampling, sampling fraction, column sampling, archaeological inference, adaptive sampling, textural analysis, significant archaeological, twelve stages, pilot survey, archaeological practice, sampling units, pilot sample, sampled population Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Museum of London, East Hampshire Survey, Agro Pontino, Field Archaeology Unit, Charnham Lane, Newbury Sewage Works, English Heritage, Risk Survey, Chevelon Archaeological Research Project, Horniman Museum New!
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- Archaeological Method and Theory (Archaeological Method & Theory) by Michael B. Schiffer on 4 pages
- Sampling in Archaeology by James Mueller in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Spatial Analysis in Archaeology (New Studies in Archaeology) by Ian Hodder in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Archaeological Illustration (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology) by Lesley Adkins in Front Matter
- Deciphering a Shell Midden by Julie K. Stein in Back Matter
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- Linking to the Past: A Brief Introduction to Archaeology includes CD-ROM by Kenneth L. Feder on page 90, and Back Matter
- Archaeological Survey (Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique) by E.B. Banning in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Excavation (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology) by Steve Roskams in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Demography in Archaeology (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology) by Andrew T. Chamberlain in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Using Computers in Archaeology: Towards Virtual Pasts by Gary Lock in Back Matter
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