••• METRICS

QUANTITATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY

As noted quantitative archaeology embraces the whole discipline, with 'archaeometry' often used for applications of the physical sciences to archaeological material. The latter generates a lot of data, often processed using multivariate statistical methods. A reasonably comprehensive account of the use of statistics in archaeology is attempted in my book Statistics in Archaeology, 2003, Arnold.

Useful books on statistics in archaeology, at various levels, are, in chronological order and some now more of historical interest,

Hodson F.R., Kendall, D.G. and Tautu P. (1971) Mathematics in the Archaeological and Historical Sciences. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Doran J.E. and Hodson F.R. (1975) Mathematics and Computing in Archaeology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Hodder I. and Orton C. (1976) Spatial Analysis in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ihm P. (1978) Statistik in der Archäologie. Cologne and Bonn: Rheinland Verlag Rudolf Habert.
Orton C. (1980) Mathematics in Archaeology, London:Collins.
Aldenderfer M.S. (ed.) (1987) Quantitative Research in Archaeology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Madsen T. (ed.) (1988) Multivariate Archaeology. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.
Blankholm H.P. (1991) Intrasite Spatial Analysis in Theory and Practice. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.
Djindjian F. (1991) Méthodes pour l’Archéologie. Paris: Armand Colin.
Baxter M.J. (1994) Exploratory Multivariate Methods in Archaeology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Buck C.E., Cavanagh W.G. and Litton C.D. (1996) Bayesian Approach to Interpreting Archaeological Data. Chichester: Wiley.
Shennan S. (1997) Quantifying Archaeology (2nd edition). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
Orton. C (2000) Sampling in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Baxter M.J. (2003) Statistics in Archaeology. London: Arnold.
Fletcher M. and Lock G. (2005) Digging Numbers, 2nd edition). Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology.
Drennan R. (2010) Statistics for Archaeologists (2nd edition). New York: Springer.

A more extensive literature review, to the early 2000s, is provided in Chapter 1 of Baxter (2003).

A list of my publications in this area, with links to some of them, is provided HERE. Some notes on the use of the R package for archaeological data analysis are HERE.