Archaeology Gear: Lab Tools & Measurements

This video, slightly revised from the one last year, concerns some of the basic measurements archaeologists make in the lab, what instruments they use to make them, and what kinds of errors we can anticipate in the use of those instruments.

My book, The Archaeologist's Laboratory: https://link.springer.com/book/10.100...

0:00 Introduction
0:01 B THE ARCHAEOLOGIST'S ARCHAEOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS
0:55 Calipers
5:14 Measuring Angles
8:23 Angle Outliers
8:44 Size Sorting
10:02 Diameters
14:00 Radial Charts
17:10 Measuring Mass
19:30 Measuring Colour
21:16 Error in Colour
28:30 Microscopes
32:00 Hand Lenses

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