Australian Field Archaeology :
a guide to techniques
Edited by Graham Connah
Field Techniques

Contents

  • Making a discovery: the finding and reporting of Aboriginal sites.
    Sharon Sullivan
  • Contacting Aboriginal communities.
    Howard Creamer
  • Archaeology and legislation in Australia.
    Graeme Ward
  • Surveying techniques useful in archaeology.
    Douglas Hobbs
  • Terrestrial photogrammetry in Australian archaeology.
    J. Beaton

Contents (Cont.)

  • Planimetry: scale drawings from photographs.
    Ian Johnson
  • Photographing Australian prehistoric sites from the air.
    Graham Connah and Alan Jones
  • Subsurface survey: the use of magnetics in Australian archaeology.
    John Stanley
  • Recording prehistoric art.
    John Clegg
  • Geoarchaeology in Australia.
    P. Hughes
  • Stone implements.
    R. Wright
  • Recovery and analysis of bone in Australian archaeological sites
    Jeannette Hope
  • Sieving seashells: midden analysis in Australian archaeology.
    Sandra Bowdler
  • Radiocarbon dating: a guide for archaeologists on the collection and submission of samples and age-reporting practices.
    Henry Polach, Jack Golson and John Head
  • Radiocarbon concentration variations in the atmosphere and absolute chronology: how to interpret dendrochronological evidence.
    Henry Polach
  • Thermoluminescence dating for the Australian archaeologist.
    W. Bell
  • Stone artefacts - an illustrator's primer.
    Winifred Mumford
  • A gadget to help in drawing small finds.
    John Clegg
  • Report writing and publication.
    J. Peter White

Reference Information
Connah, G. (ed.) 1983
Australian Field Archaeology :
A Guide To Techniques
Australian Institute of
Aboriginal Studies : Canberra

Pages - 182

ISBN - 0 85575 136 3 -

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