sampling novgorod medieval cambridge

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Sampling in Archaeology (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology)

1 review
Clive Orton

Cambridge University Press, 2000

Absolutely essential
No archaeologist should be without this book, which describes in simple, sensible language just exactly what is involved in the proper sampling of archaeological populations. Sampling design and sample size receive excellent treatment, and the book describes the very useful adaptive sampling, a method with which few archaeologists are very familiar, in some detail. ...

Pottery in Archaeology (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology)

2 reviews
Clive Orton, Paul Tyers, ...

Cambridge University Press, 1993

excellent introduction to ceramics in archaeology
orton and friends take the reader through all the aspects of the most common archaeological find: the pot sherd. at the end, you will know how to classify any random bit of ceramic you come across. the book is very well written; it's amazing how the rather dry subject comes alive. very much a "practical knowledge" sort of read. every serious dig should have one in their field house.

Pottery from Medieval Novgorod and Its Region (Archaeology of Medieval Novgorod)

Oxbow Books Limited, 2008

Novgorod was a major medieval city and an important centre for trade routes between northern, central and western Europe and the Near East, and has been the subject of intensive investigation since the 1930s. This volume in a series devoted to the archaeology of medieval Novgorod, presents eleven studies of ceramic evidence in terms of chronology and technology, methodology of investigation, and international trade and contacts. The essays also ...