David,
The division between small and bulk finds isn't shared by our North American or Australasian colleagues, who indeed often publish catalogues which include functional categorisation across the assemblage.
There's an extensive on this for (non-British) historical archaeology. Contact me off-list if you're interested in a concise annotated bibliography.
Alasdair Brooks
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Subject: "Small finds"
Quick request for help- I
'm trying to find out if anything has been written about 'small finds' -
I don't mean studies of particular artefacts, but rather the notion of
'small finds' as opposed to 'bulk finds'. For example, there is the
obvious tendency for site reports to publish finds on the basis of
material, rather than say, function. Has anybody done any work on the
historiography/genealogy of this; also has there been any practical work
on ways at profiling entire assemblages, cross-cutting the traditional
material divisions? I know some Romanists are slowly some of these
approaches, but has this issue been problematised at all in historical
archaeology?
Cheers
David
Dr David Petts
Lecturer in Archaeology
Dept. of Archaeology
Durham University
Durham
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