Archaeologist's Field Handbook

Heather Burke is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology at Flinders University, and has many years experience as a consultant archaeologist. She has participated in and directed numerous surveys and excavations for historic, prehistoric and Aboriginal sites across Australia.Michael Morrison is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Flinders University. His research focuses on Indigenous archaeology in north eastern Australia and particularly the investigation of past economic systems both in the pre-colonial and colonial periods. He has worked with a wide range of Indigenous communities on heritage management projects, both in commercial settings and in the context of community-based Indigenous land and sea management programs. He has also regularly taught courses in field and research methods, Indigenous archaeology and Indigenous heritage management at Flinders University.Claire Smith is a Professor with the Department of Archaeology at Flinders University and a former President of the World Archaeological Congress. She is editor of the eleven-volume Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. She specialises in rock art research and the analysis of symbolic communication and has conducted research with the remote Aboriginal community of Barunga, Northern Territory, since 1990.

• Figures and TablesAbout The AuthorsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. The Context of Archaeological Fieldwork2. Designing Your Project3. Maps and Navigation4. Recording Landscapes5. Recording Sites6. Archaeological Surveying7. Principles of Archaeological Photography8. Surface Collection and Excavation9. Recording Artefacts10. Cultural Heritage Values and SignificanceAppendix 1. The relationship between scale, measurement and the size of a feature on a drawn planAppendix 2. Archaeological toolkitsAppendix 3. Sample recording formsAppendix 4. Rim diameter chart for historic ceramicsAppendix 5. Guides to dating common historical artefactsAppendix 6. Nic Grguric's guide to dating firearms-relatedAppendix 7. Guidelines for producing technical reportsReferencesIndex