Archaeological Investigations

The thermal analysis of different archaeological samples of bricks, terra-cotta, and local clays provides useful information on the chemical composition of historical samples and can provide confirmation of specific sites of originJ ] The thermal characterization of local clays is valuable to assist the restoration of historical pottery materials. 

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Crane, C.J. and Carr, S.H. 1994 The integration and quantification of economic data from a late Preclassic Maya community in Belize. In Sobolik, K.D., ed., Paleonutrition The Diet and Health of Prehistoric Americans. Occasional Paper 22, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Carbondale, University of Southern Illinois 66-79. 

Thomas, S.C. and Williamson, R.F. 1991 Archaeological Investigations. In Pfeiffer, S. and Williamson, R.F., eds.. Snake Hill An Investigation of a Military Cemetery from the War of 1812. Toronto, Dundrun Press 70-159. 

The isotopes of many elements (see Textbox 12) provide important tools for obtaining information on many archaeological investigations their use may enable researchers, for example, to determine the provenance (see Textbox 30) or the age of materials (see Textboxes 15 and 16), calculating ancient temperatures (see Textbox 47), or elucidating the nature of the ancient diets of human beings as well as of animals (see Textbox 59). 

Ambrose, S. H. (1987), Chemical and isotopic techniques of diet reconstruction in eastern North America, in Keegan, W. F. (ed.), Emergent Horticultural Economies of the Eastern Woodlands, Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Papers, Vol. 7, pp. 78-107. 

Nevertheless, this work shows that the previously intractable question of glass provenance is now amenable to archaeological investigation. 

Thailand. In Organic Contents of Ancient Vessels Materials Analysis and Archaeological Investigation, ed. Biers, W.R. and McGovern, P.E., MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology, Volume 7, The University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, pp. 59 67. 

It has been shown over the years that, to be of lasting interpretative value, chemical analysis in archaeology needs to be more than a descriptive exercise that simply documents the composition of ancient materials. This is often much more difficult than producing the primary analytical data as DeAtley and Bishop (1991 371) have pointed out, no analytical technique has built-in interpretative value for archaeological investigations the links between... 

American statesman and scientist Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) directs one of the earliest archaeological investigations—an excavation of a Native American mound in Virginia. This and other early excavations help to establish the scientific methods of archaeology. 

Lothrop, S, K., Archaeological investigation in tire province of Cocl6,... 

Basgall, M. E. Hall, M. C. Archaeological Investigations at Goldstone (CA-SBR-2348) A Middle Holocene Occupation Complex in the North Central Mojave Desert, Far Western Anthropological Research Group Davis, CA, 1994... 

Meyer, J. Rosenthal, J. S. An Archaeological Investigation of Artifacts and Human Remains from CA-CCO-637, Los Vaqueros Project Area, Contra Costa County, California, Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University Rohnert Park, CA, 1998. 

Dietz, S. A. Hildebrandt, W., Jones, T. Archaeological Investigations at Elkhorn Slough CA-MNT-229, a Middle Period Site on the Central California Coast Papers in Northern California Anthropology 3, University of California Berkeley, CA, 1988. 

Riordan, T. B., Dig A Grave Both Wide and Deep An Archaeological Investigation of Mortuary Practice in the 17th-Century Cemetery at St. Mary s City, Maryland, Historic St. Mary s City Archaeology Series no. 3 Historic St. Mary s City Commission St. Mary s City, MD, 2004. 

Hopkins, D. W. (2000). Interfaces of soil biology with archaeological investigations, in Soil Biochemistry volume 10 (J.-M. Bollag and G. Stotzky, Eds.). New York Marcel Dekker, 483-512. 

As compositional analysis has become more routine in archaeological investigations, deficiencies in the numerical techniques used for data reduction and summary have become more apparent. A brief overview of techniques commonly used in the analysis of compositional data is presented as well as an example illustrating how data modeling (as opposed to data summary) can facilitate both the recognition of relevant data structure and inferences from data structure to underlying natural and cultural processes. 

Santeford, L. G. Lopinot, N. H. In Final Report on Archaeological Investigations at Frog City and Red Light Two Middle Woodland Period Sites in Alexander County, Illinois Southern 111. Univ. at Carbondale, Center for Archaeological Investigations Research Paper No. 6, 1978. 

Woods, W. I., Interim Report of Soil Analyses Conducted in Conjunction with the Carrier Mills Archaeological Mitigation Project, report submitted to the Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern 111. Univ. at Carbondale, 1979. 

Carbondale, Center for Archaeological Investigations Research Paper No. 25, 1982. 

Table 4.1 Important isotopes in archaeological investigations and information on natural abundance, the isotope ratio of importance, the kinds of materials analyzed, and applications...

This chapter deals with two important and related topics in archaeological investigations die environment in which people lived, and the foods that they ate. The environment plays a major role in die diet that is available to hnman groups. This relationship is seen both in terms of the specific kinds of plants and animals that are available and in terms of changes in climate and resources over time that impact the human population. 

Archaeological investigations at Cerro Narrio had revealed marine shell ornaments... 

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