Figures and Tables
About The Authors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The Context of Archaeological Fieldwork
2. Designing Your Project
3. Maps and Navigation
4. Recording Landscapes
5. Recording Sites
6. Archaeological Surveying
7. Principles of Archaeological Photography
8. Surface Collection and Excavation
9. Recording Artefacts
10. Cultural Heritage Values and Significance
Appendix 1. The relationship between scale, measurement and the
size of a feature on a drawn plan
Appendix 2. Archaeological toolkits
Appendix 3. Sample recording forms
Appendix 4. Rim diameter chart for historic ceramics
Appendix 5. Guides to dating common historical artefacts
Appendix 6. Nic Grguric's guide to dating firearms-related
Appendix 7. Guidelines for producing technical reports
References
Index
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.
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