Quantifying Archaeology - Softcover

Shennan, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0852244738 ISBN 13: 9780852244739

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 1990

Synopsis

Quantitative reasoning is central to archaeology: quantitative methods are a vital part of every archaeologist's mental tool kit. This new edition of Stephen Shennan's extremely popular textbook introduces students to the basic quantitative methods used within the discipline as well as some of the more advanced methods.
Shennan explains the relevant areas of statistics in terms easily assimilated by archaeology students; instead of introducing statistics as it is taught in other disciplines, he draws his working examples from archaeological sources. Exercises at the end of each chapter also directly relate to issues likely to arise within the study of archaeology.

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This is a satisfying book that I would recommend to undergraduate students and professionalarchaeologists alike. -- Andy Boddington, Royal Archaeological Institute This is a book that will be invaluable to those undergraduates and researchers looking for an up-to-date guide to the use of numerical methods in archaeology. -- A M Pollard Shennan's book is clearly one of the most comprehensive, even readable, introductions tostatistical methods as they are applied to archaeology. This is a satisfying book that I would recommend to undergraduate students and professionalarchaeologists alike. This is a book that will be invaluable to those undergraduates and researchers looking for an up-to-date guide to the use of numerical methods in archaeology. Shennan's book is clearly one of the most comprehensive, even readable, introductions tostatistical methods as they are applied to archaeology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0852244738
• ISBN 13: 9780852244739
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300