Sampling in Archaeology (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology)

Rating:
Summary: Absolutely essential
Review: No archaeologist should be without this book, which describes in simple, sensible language just exactly what is involved in the proper sampling of archaeological populations. Sampling design and sample size receive excellent treatment, and the book describes the very useful adaptive sampling, a method with which few archaeologists are very familiar, in some detail. Paleoethnobotanists/archaeobotanists will do well to pay attention to his discussion of "ratios of ratios" to account for differential preservation.