Material Evidence: Learning from Archaeological Practice

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Title Page
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Table of Contents
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List of contributors
1 Material evidence: learning from archaeological practice
PART I Fieldwork and recording conventions
	2 Repeating the unrepeatable experiment
	3 Experimental archaeology at the crossroads: a contribution to interpretation or evidence of ‘xeroxing’?
	4 ‘Proportional representation’: multiple voices in archaeological interpretation at Çatalhöyük
	5 Integrating database design and use into recording methodologies
	6 The tyranny of typologies: evidential reasoning in Romano-Egyptian domestic archaeology
PART II Cross-field trade: archaeological applications of external expertise and technologies
	7 The archaeological bazaar: scientific methods for sale? Or: ‘putting the “arch-” back into archaeometry’
	8 Radiocarbon dating and archaeology: history, progress and present status
	9 Using evidence from natural sciences in archaeology
	10 Working the digital: some thoughts from landscape archaeology
	11 Crafting knowledge with (digital) visual media in archaeology
PART III Multiple working hypotheses, strategies of elimination, and triangulation
	12 Uncertain on principle: combining lines of archaeological evidence to create chronologies
	13 Lessons from modelling Neolithic farming practice: methods of elimination
	14 Evidence, archaeology and law: an initial exploration
	15 Law and archaeology: Modified Wigmorean Analysis
	16 Traditional knowledge, archaeological evidence, and other ways of knowing
PART IV Broader perspectives: material culture as object and evidence
	17 Evidence of what? On the possibilities of archaeological interpretation
	18 Meeting pasts halfway: a consideration of the ontology of material evidence in archaeology
	19 Matter and facts: material culture and the history of science
Index