This is the most comprehensive survey ever conducted into archaeological employment in the UK.

A broad brush approach to interpreting anthropology from archaeological remains by - classifying material culture (eg: by morphological type or functional type; by dating (eg; radiocarbon, dendrochronology); by reconstructing past lifestyles (eg: using faunal or floral remains); and by the study

Probably the earliest practical guide to the technique of percussion flaking of a flint using a hammer stone to produce a usable arrow head as employed by the hunters of the Stone Age.  Detailed description of the stages involved with many useful diagrams.  Paerback.  40 pages.&nbs

An extensive exploration of the forensic bioarchaeologist's role in the analysis and interpretation of human remains from ancient sites using several historic New England burial sites as exemplars accompanied by a wealth of high quality laboratory photographs to illustrate their findings.

A bumper volume whose contents include: Underwater Archaeology in Turkey; Excavations in Philippine Cave Sites; Helge Ingstad on the Newfoundland L’Anse aux Meadows Viking Site; Kathleen Kenyon on Jerusalem Archaeology; Louis Leakey on Palaeontology in East Africa; the Wyoming Mummy Cave; C1th Sh

This book is the outcome of a series of lectures and workshops held in Oxford in 2004 which examined the often conflicting interests between museums and the legal antiquities trade. The contributors include archaeologists, a museum curator, an antiquities dealer, collectors, and legislators.

Effective management is becoming increasingly important in all aspects of archaeology.

The study of forensic evidence using archaeology is a new discipline which has rapidly gained importance, not only in archaeological studies, but also in the investigation of real crimes.

A short handy guide by noted Egyptologist to the weights and linear or capacity measures used in the ancient world - Egypt, Syria, Persia, Rome, Phoenicia, and Babylon.  Hardback.  22 pages.  Cover price over-written, otherwise very good clean condition.  Cat No 3636

Practical techniques and case studies resulting from lectures given at a Symposium on Scientific Methods in Archaeology held in Palinuro, Italy in September 1986 and produced as a handbook for interdisciplinary research.