Experimentation and interpretation

Experimentation and interpretation the use of experimental archaeology in the study of the past / [electronic resource] : edited by Dana C.E. Millson. - Oxford ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, c2010. - 142 p. : ill.

Papers from a session held at the annual Theoretical Archaeological Group (TAG) Conference in Southampton, England, Dec. 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Dana C.E. Millson -- Cache or carry : food storage in prehistoric Europe / Penny Cunningham -- Creating a history of experimental archaeology / Jodi Reeves Flores -- Breaking the sound barrier : new directions for complexity, transformation, and reconstructive practice in experimental Neolithic archaeoacousitics / Claire Marshall -- Experimental archaeology after simplicity : implications for reflexivity of insights that a "common world" is not a "given" / Stephanie Koerner -- Experiment or demonstration? : making fermentable malt sugars from the grain and a discussion of some of the evidence for this activity in the British Neolithic / Merryn Dineley -- Experiments in beaker construction technologies / Harriet Hammersmith -- Luminescence dating of medieval brick from Essex : an example of the physical sciences addressing archaeological questions / Thomas Gurling.


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Experimental archaeology--Europe--Congresses.
Experimental archaeology--England--Congresses.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Europe--Congresses.
Excavations (Archaeology)--England--Congresses.
Material culture--History--Europe--Congresses.
Material culture--History--England--Congresses.
Archaeology--Methodology--Congresses.
Archaeology--Philosophy--Congresses.


Europe--Antiquities--Congresses.
England--Antiquities--Congresses.


Electronic books.

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