Chapter Abstracts

Below is a list of chapter abstracts:
Select Chapter 1. Material Evidence: Learning from Archaeological Practice 2. Repeating the Unrepeatable Experiment 3. Experimental Archaeology at the Cross Roads: 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 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 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 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

Using Evidence from Natural Sciences in Archaeology
David Killick
Since 2000, archaeological practice worldwide has been markedly altered by the adoption of many new - or substantially improved - methods from the natural sciences and engineering. Scientific evidence is generally independent of other types of archaeological evidence and can be combined with these to make more persuasive reconstructions of the past. This chapter suggests some ways by which the integration of archaeological and scientific data can be improved.