The_Archaeologist_s_Field_Handbook.pdf

The Archaeologist’s Field Handbook

For Jane, Wendy, Mike and Iain

The Archaeologist’s Field Handbook

Heather Burke and Claire Smith

Published with the assistance of the Australian Academy of Humanities

First published in 2004

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Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:

Burke, Heather and Smith, Claire.

The Archaeologist’s Field Handbook.

Bibliography

Includes index.

ISBN 1 86508 862 5.

1. Archaeology – Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Excavations

(Archaeology) – Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Smith, Claire,

1957- . II. Title.

930.1028

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