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Russell J. Barber.
Doing Historical Archaeology: Exercises Using Documentary, Oral, and Material Evidence.
Published Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1994.
ISBN 0131760335;
ISBN-13 9780131760332.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 152x228x12mm.
Page count: vii,248pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild scuffs on the covers, some light wear on the edges with the corners starting to rub and curl a little; the spine is a bit faded but not creased from reading; previous owner’s initial on the half-title page, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

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[Publisher’s price £38.99]
Weight without packaging: 334g.

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Chapters are presented in the form of exercises and assignments. Good for general principles, but uses American material for examples, so no medieval emphasis.

Contents: Source analysis; toponymy; Oral history; Probate inventories & acculturation; Integrating documents & archaeological data; Regional settlement pattern analysis; Analysis of community patterning; Social analysis of architecture; Stratigraphy; Faunal analysis; Inferring alcohol usage from artifacts; Artifact identification; Typology; Pipestem dating; Mean ceramic dating; Similiary seriation; Functional analysisFrequency seriation with grave marker data; Cemetery demography; Estimation of social status with cemetery data; Inferring ideology from grave markers.
Appendices: Planning your research; Sampling; Basic descriptive statistics & other relevant arithmetic; Writing your reports; Glossary of terms to describe cemeteries & grave markers.

Illustrations: 13 monochrome text figures
Maps & plans: 14

Notes: no
Tables: 45
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: references given at end of most chapters
Index: no

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