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The practical impact of science on Near Eastern and Aegean archaeology / edited by Scott Pike and Seymour Gitin.

Contributor(s): Pike, Scott | Gitin, SeymourMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Wiener Laboratory monograph ; 3.Publication details: [London] : Archetype [for the Wiener Laboratory, American School of Classical Studies, Athens], c1999. Description: ix, 169 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cmISBN: 1873132174 (pbk.); 9781873132173 (pbk.)Subject(s): Archaeology -- Methodology | Archaeology -- Middle East -- Methodology | Archaeology -- Greece -- Crete -- Methodology | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle East | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Crete | Exacte wetenschappen | Archeologie | Invloed | Archéologie -- Méthodologie -- Congrès | Fouilles (Archéologie) -- Égée, Région de la mer -- Congrès | Fouilles (Archéologie) -- Moyen-Orient -- Congrès | Matériaux -- Analyse -- Congrès | Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities | Middle East -- Antiquities | Israel -- AntiquitiesGenre/Form: Congresses (form)DDC classification: 913.018 LOC classification: CC101.M628 | P73 1999CC75 | .P76 1999Also issued online.
Contents:
Sampling and recovery of non-wood plant remains / Julie Hansen -- Phytolith analysis in Near Eastern archaeology / Arlene Miller Rosen -- The contribution of palynology and anthracology to archaeological research in the southern Levant / Uri Baruch -- Computerized keys for archaeological grains: first steps / Mordechai Kislev, Yoel Melamed, Orit Simchoni, Mina Marmorstein -- Microscopic analysis of ancient fibers: problems of identifying date palms / Azriel Gorski -- Dendroarchaeological research in Israel / Nili Liphschitz -- Physical anthropology in the field: recognizing cremation, defleshing, exposure and secondary burial / Della Collins Cook -- Ecology, evolution and zooarchaeology: the analysis of mammalian remains from archaeological sites / Tamar Dayan -- Harvest profiles, domestic ovicaprids, and Broze Age Crete / Walter E. Klippel -- The contribution of archaeozoology to the identification of ritual sites / Liora Kolska Horwitz --
The application of ancient DNA analysis to archaeological problems: its role in studies of gender in past societies / Patricia Smith, Gila Kahila, Marina Faerman, Dvora Filon, Emanuel Eisenburg -- Geoarchaeology: the geologic context / George (Rip) Rapp, Jr. -- Overview of ash studies in two prehistoric caves in Israel: implications to field archaeology / Steve Weiner, Paul Goldberg, Ofer Bar-Yosef -- Application of organic geochemistry to the study of Dead Sea asphalt in archaeological sites from Israel and Egypt / Arie Nissenbaum, Jacques Connan -- ESR dating of archaeological flints: an unfulfilled prophecy / Ervan G. Garrison -- The new radiocarbon dates of the Dead Sea scrolls and their significance / Magen Broshi -- Strength-testing glass: the Hellenistic/early Roman corpus of Sepphoris, Israel / Alysia Fischer --
Contributions of petrography to the study of archaeological ceramics and man-made building materials in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean / Sarah J. Vaughan -- Petrographic analyses of late antique and Islamic fine and coarse wares from Qasrin / Naomi Porat -- Petrographic study of ceramic assemblages as a regional project: the early and late Broze Ages in the central Jordan valley / Yuval Goren -- What we can learn from pottery of a sunken ship through chemical analysis / Joseph Yellin -- Lipid biomarkers preserved in archaeological pottery: current status and future prospects / Richard P. Evershed, Stephanie N. Dudd.
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"This volume evolved from a workshop series entitled 'The practical impact of science on field archaeology' held in the autumn of 1996 on the campuses of the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University"--P. vii.

Includes bibliographical references.

Sampling and recovery of non-wood plant remains / Julie Hansen -- Phytolith analysis in Near Eastern archaeology / Arlene Miller Rosen -- The contribution of palynology and anthracology to archaeological research in the southern Levant / Uri Baruch -- Computerized keys for archaeological grains: first steps / Mordechai Kislev, Yoel Melamed, Orit Simchoni, Mina Marmorstein -- Microscopic analysis of ancient fibers: problems of identifying date palms / Azriel Gorski -- Dendroarchaeological research in Israel / Nili Liphschitz -- Physical anthropology in the field: recognizing cremation, defleshing, exposure and secondary burial / Della Collins Cook -- Ecology, evolution and zooarchaeology: the analysis of mammalian remains from archaeological sites / Tamar Dayan -- Harvest profiles, domestic ovicaprids, and Broze Age Crete / Walter E. Klippel -- The contribution of archaeozoology to the identification of ritual sites / Liora Kolska Horwitz --

The application of ancient DNA analysis to archaeological problems: its role in studies of gender in past societies / Patricia Smith, Gila Kahila, Marina Faerman, Dvora Filon, Emanuel Eisenburg -- Geoarchaeology: the geologic context / George (Rip) Rapp, Jr. -- Overview of ash studies in two prehistoric caves in Israel: implications to field archaeology / Steve Weiner, Paul Goldberg, Ofer Bar-Yosef -- Application of organic geochemistry to the study of Dead Sea asphalt in archaeological sites from Israel and Egypt / Arie Nissenbaum, Jacques Connan -- ESR dating of archaeological flints: an unfulfilled prophecy / Ervan G. Garrison -- The new radiocarbon dates of the Dead Sea scrolls and their significance / Magen Broshi -- Strength-testing glass: the Hellenistic/early Roman corpus of Sepphoris, Israel / Alysia Fischer --

Contributions of petrography to the study of archaeological ceramics and man-made building materials in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean / Sarah J. Vaughan -- Petrographic analyses of late antique and Islamic fine and coarse wares from Qasrin / Naomi Porat -- Petrographic study of ceramic assemblages as a regional project: the early and late Broze Ages in the central Jordan valley / Yuval Goren -- What we can learn from pottery of a sunken ship through chemical analysis / Joseph Yellin -- Lipid biomarkers preserved in archaeological pottery: current status and future prospects / Richard P. Evershed, Stephanie N. Dudd.

Also issued online.