Seeing Beneath the Soil: Prospecting Methods in Archaeology - Softcover

Clark, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0713458593 ISBN 13: 9780713458596

Publisher: B T Batsford Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

This is the first full survey of the geophysical and chemical methods of obtaining information on buried archaeological sites. It is aimed at those new to the subject as well as practised survey users and archaeologists.

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Review:

`A first rate introduction to geophysical prospecting methods in archaeology by one of its pioneers and chief practitioners.' - Oxbow Book News, summer 1990

`this book will signify to many that archaeological geophysics has come of age and it deserves to be read by most field archaeologists' - Mark Noel, University of Durham

`I have no doubt that it will become, and remain, a standard work on archaeological prospection.' - John Musthy, The Antiquaries Journal

`This masterly and lucid exposition of resistivity, magnetometry, magnetic susceptibility, the choice of methods, and the interpretation and presentation of results will be an essential tool for both the experienced practitioner and the novice.' - British Archaeological News, Sept, 1990

About this edition

• Publisher: B T Batsford Ltd
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0713458593
• ISBN 13: 9780713458596
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192