Field Archaeology from Around the World

Part 1: Methods
Chapter 1: Field Method in Archaeology: Overview
Chapter 2: Natural and Cultural Formation Processes
Chapter 3: Aerial archaeology
Chapter 4: Surface Survey: Method and Strategies
Chapter 5: Non-destructive Subsurface Mapping
Chapter 6: Excavation methods
Chapter 7: The Archaeological Study of Buildings
Chapter 8: Recording Fieldwork
Chapter 9: Spatial analysis
Chapter 10: Sequence and Date
Chapter 11: Ethno-archaeology: approaches to fieldwork
Chapter 12: Publication

Part 2: Projects
Chapter 13: Large scale landscape mapping in Yorkshire, England
Chapter 14: Seascape Survey on the Inner Ionian archipelago
Chapter 15: Archaeology in advance of motorway construction in Ireland
Chapter 16: Digging through permafrost in Siberia
Chapter 17: A tropical rainforest site in Belize Cynthia Robin
Chapter 18: Excavating a Rock shelter in north-west Greece Nena Galanidou
Chapter 19: Excavation and survey at Pinnacle Point, S Africa
Chapter 20: An upper Paleolithic living floor at Monruz, Switzerland
Chapter 21: On the beach in Remote Oceania
Chapter 22: Defining the Neolithic on the German loess
Chapter 23: Crannóg investigations in Scotland
Chapter 24: Investigating Tells in Syria
Chapter 25: Terp excavation in the Netherlands
Chapter 26: A terramare site on the Po Plain, Italy
Chapter 27: Hillfort investigations in the Czech Republic
Chapter 28: Excavating burials in Anglo-Saxon England
Chapter 29: A Burial mound dissection in Sweden
Chapter 30: Down a mine at Gavá, Spain
Chapter 31: Urban archaeology at Five Points New York City
Chapter 32: After the earthquake in Bam, Iran; archaeological and social investigations
Chapter 33: Ethnoarchaeology in the field: Learning from potters in Gilund, India

Part 3: Traditions
Chapter 34: America
Chapter 35: Poland
Chapter 36: Britain
Chapter 37: Scandinavia
Chapter 38: France
Chapter 39: China
Chapter 40: Japan
Chapter 41: Australia

Martin Carver is emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of York (UK) and Editor of Antiquity. He is the founder of two commercial archaeology companies (FAS-Heritage and Birmingham Archaeology) and two museums (Sutton Hoo and the Tarbat Discovery Centre). He was secretary of the Institute of Field Archaeologists at its foundation and has carried out field research in England, Scotland, France, Italy and Algeria. His research interests are Field Method and the archaeology of protohistoric Europe.

Bisserka Gaydarska is a Post Doctoral Research Assistant at the Department of Archaeology in Durham University. After graduating from Sofia University, she received her PhD in Durham University, which has been fostering her research activities ever since. Apart from her homeland Bulgaria, Bisserka has been involved in various field projects and museum studies in Romania, Greece, Turkey and recently Ukraine. Her main research interests are in landscape archaeology, material culture studies, the archaeology of gender and interdisciplinary studies that combine archeological science or information technology with archaeology.

Sandra Montón-Subías is ICREA Research Professor at UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain. She is interested in broad issues in social and theoretical archaeology, including conflict, gender, identity and funerary practice. More recently, she has added historical archaeology and the archaeology of Modern Spanish colonialism to her research agenda She is co-chair of the EAA working party Archaeology and Gender in Europe.