Quantifying Archaeology: Second Edition

About this book

Quantitative reasoning is central to archaeology: quantitative methods are a vital part of every archaeologists mental tool kit. This new edition of Stephen Shennans extremely popular textbook introduces students to the basic quantitative methods used within the discipline as well as some of the more advanced methods. Shennan explains the relevant areas of statistics in terms easily assimilated by archaeology students; instead of introducing statistics as it is taught in other disciplines he draws his working examples from archaeological sources. Exercises at the end of each chapter also directly relate to issues likely to arise within the study of archaeology.