How can you ensure that you are learning everything your artifacts have toteach you? Ewen explores a variety of methods and techniques used to prepareprotect an... » 

How can you ensure that you are learning everything your artifacts have toteach you? Ewen explores a variety of methods and techniques used to prepareprotect and analyze artifacts once they are in the lab. In brief userfriendly sections he outlines the basic principles of identificationclassification quantification data manipulation and analysis. Students willfind that Ewens suggestions point out fruitful areas of analysis yet do notdictate the researchers approach. Examples drawn from 16th century Spanishsites in the Americas introduce students to the hows and whys of archaeologicallab work. «