TY - BOOK ID - 101337955 TI - Laying the Foundations: Manual of the British Museum Iraq Scheme Archaeological Training Programme AU - Rey, Sébastien AU - MacGinnis, John PY - 2022 SN - 1803271418 180327140X 9781803271408 9781803271415 PB - Archaeopress DB - UniCat KW - Archaeology. KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - British Museum. KW - Archeology KW - Anthropology KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - History KW - Antiquities KW - Archaeological digs KW - Archaeological excavations KW - Digs (Archaeology) KW - Excavation sites (Archaeology) KW - Ruins KW - Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) KW - Archaeology KW - Daiei Hakubutsukan KW - Matḥaf al-Barīṭānī KW - Museo Británico KW - Britské muzeum v Londýně KW - Briṭish Muzeʼon KW - Ta Ying po wu kuan KW - Da Ying bo wu guan KW - Museum Britannicum KW - Great Britain. KW - בריטיש מוזיאום KW - מוזיאון הבריטי KW - 大英博物館 KW - British Library UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101337955 AB - Laying the Foundations, which developed out of the British Museum's 'Iraq Scheme' archaeological training programme, covers the core components for putting together and running an archaeological field programme. The focus is on practicality. Individual chapters address background research, the use of remote sensing, approaches to surface collection, excavation methodologies, survey with total (and multi) stations, use of a dumpy level, context classification, on-site recording, databases and registration, environmental protocols, conservation, photography, illustration, post-excavation site curation and report writing. While the manual is oriented to the archaeology of Iraq, the approaches are no less applicable to the Middle East more widely, an aim hugely facilitated by the open-source distribution of translations into Arabic and Kurdish. ER -