Quantitative Analysis in Archaeology

"VanPool and Leonard are accomplished practitioners, and their book is a comprehensive guide to statistical inference in archaeology with particular emphasis upon currently popular methods.  It should be on every archaeologist's bookshelf and will serve admirably as a text in introductory statistics courses."
Michael Shott, University of Akron

 

"The authors' approach to the often confusing concepts of statistical analysis using common sense and  real-world examples make this text an approachable and conducive way to ease archaeologists into the quantitative analysis of data."
Gordon F.M. Rakita, University of North Florida

 

An excellent book -- one that takes archaeologists with little quantitative training by the hand and leads them through easy-to-read discussions of an impressive array of statistical methods.  The examples come directly from archaeology, which students will appreciate.  My copy will become dog-eared from use.
Michael J. O'Brien, University of Missouri