Handbook Of Archaeological Methods 2 volume set

This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile in a single place the latest thinking about archaeological methods. Topics range from theoretical models undergirding research to concrete strategies for field work and laboratory analysis. Public archaeology topics such as curation, collaboration, funding, and publication are also included among the 34 chapters in the book. Chapters are authored by well-known scholars on both sides of the Atlantic including Fagan, Hodder, Chippindale, Kvamme, McManamon, and many others. An extensive bibliography accompanies each chapter. As a single reference for current information on contemporary archaeological field methods, this volume is unmatched.

Brian Fagan was born in England and spent several years doing fieldwork in Africa. He is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of New York Times bestseller The Great Warming and many other books, including Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World, and several books on climate history, including The Little Ice Age and The Long Summer.

Mark Gillings is Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Leicester. Joshua Pollard is Lecturer in Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Wales College, Newport.

R. L. Lyman is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri. He is author of Vertebrate Taphonomy (1994), Quantitative Paleozoology (2008), Theodore E. White and the Development of Zooarchaeology in North America (2016), Graphing Culture Change in North American Archaeology: A History of Graph Types (2021), and co-author of Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments: Fundamentals, Assumptions, and Techniques (2019). Research interests include zooarchaeology, the history of archaeology, and conservation paleozoology.