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Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Figures 9 List of Boxes 11 Acknowledgments 15 1 Introduction: Biographies and Lifecycles 18 1.1 What is Egyptian Archaeology? 18 1.2 Archaeology in Egypt: an Egyptian Archaeology 20 1.3 Archaeological Science and the Study of Egypt: Egyptological Science 21 1.4 Studying Objects, or ‘Material Culture’ 22 1.5 Archaeology in Egypt and How to ‘Read’ This Book 23 2 The Biography of Time and Space 28 2.1 Time: Dating Methods (Relative and Chronometric Dating) 29 2.1.1 Relative Chronology and Relative Dating 31 2.1.2 Absolute Dating 42 2.2 Finding Sites and Buildings (with Kristian Strutt) 67 2.2.1 Remote Sensing and Egyptian Archaeology 67 2.2.2 Geophysical Survey Techniques 79 2.2.3 3-D Site Reconstruction 99 2.2.4 Considerations 99 2.3 The Environment and Palaeoenvironment 99 2.3.1 Environmental Reconstruction 101 2.3.2 Obtaining Environmental Data 102 2.3.3 Animals and Plants 116 2.4 Organisation of Human Burial Grounds 130 2.4.1 Working with Data from Mortuary Contexts 131 2.4.2 Types of Data and Organisation 134 3 The Biography of People 142 3.1 Death and Burial 142 3.1.1 Burial Rites and Rituals 143 3.1.2 Patterning of Burials 149 3.1.
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- Author
- Sonia Zakrzewski; Andrew Shortland; Joanne Rowland
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
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