Digging Numbers: Elementary Statistics for Archaeologists

by Gary Lock, Gary R. Lock

This fully revised second edition retains the hands-on simple approach of the first edition but with some significant modifications. Still covered in detail are descriptive and inferential techniques with each one worked through by hand on a common data-set, but new is a chapter covering an introduction to multivariate techniques. A new section provides SPSS PC programs designed with the beginner in mind. This book provides a practical manual to enable any archaeologist to start using statistics, as well as some more thoughtful considerations of the strengths and weaknesses of statistical methods and the results produced.

Genres: Archaeology

216 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1994

Reviews

[Maria · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am such a bad archaeologist when it comes to statistics. A pie chart was about the best thing I have done in my entire career.
This book helped me to understand that a pie chart is something that has its own value, that you don´t have to do super specialized statistics to be a good archaeologist and that you don´t have to be afraid of them. YOu can do a lot more than a pie chart with the same knowledge and arrive at interesting interpretations.
Its a great book for beginners and archaeologists who don´t have the option to have a specialist at their side at every step to do statistics for them but still have to and want to include statistics in their work.