Earth Sciences and ArchaeologyPaul Goldberg, Vance T. Holliday, C. Reid Ferring Springer Science & Business Media, 11.11.2013 - 513 Seiten Earth Sciences and Archaeology brings together contributions from an experienced group of archaeologists and geologists whose common objective is to present thorough and current reviews of the diverse ways in which methods from the earth sciences can contribute to archaeological research. Many areas of research are addressed here, including artifact analysis and sourcing, landscape reconstruction and site formation analysis, soil micromorphology and geophysical exploration of buried sites. Archaeology has benefited from geological methods in many ways in recent decades. However, in the past ten to twenty years, this informal collaboration between geologists and archaeologists has grown into a formal integration of earth science and archaeology on a significant scale. This book allows the contributors to assess where we are in terms of interdisciplinary research, which approaches work best in specific situations, and where this collaborative approach should progress to in the future. |
Inhalt
2 | 243 |
Discussion | 259 |
38 | 265 |
Techniques for Evaluating Pedoturbation | 269 |
39 | 289 |
Chapter 11 | 297 |
Archaeological Problems Amenable to Petrographic Analysis | 307 |
Summary and Conclusions | 322 |
Conclusion | 47 |
Soils and Site Excavations | 48 |
5 | 49 |
Some Examples | 69 |
12 | 74 |
Chapter 4 | 77 |
16 | 100 |
A Geomorphological Approach to Reconstructing Archaeological | 107 |
Case Studies | 115 |
2223 | 122 |
Replacing Humans on the Landscape | 136 |
Chapter 6 | 143 |
References | 195 |
Chapter 8 | 196 |
28 | 199 |
Microfacies Analysis Assisting Archaeological Stratigraphy | 205 |
Case Example | 215 |
References | 236 |
Defining Microartifacts | 328 |
Research Questions | 338 |
Techniques | 344 |
Magnetics Resistivity | 353 |
Computer Methods | 365 |
Advanced Geophysical Data Processing | 375 |
References | 382 |
Chapter 15 | 419 |
Field Application of Stable C and O Isotopes in Soils | 425 |
Stable Isotope Laboratory Procedures | 432 |
Sourcing Lithic Artifacts by Instrumental Analyses | 449 |
Conclusions | 461 |
Summary and Conclusions | 464 |
Chapter 17 | 473 |
GeochronologyIs It Simply a Game of Numbers? | 480 |
489 | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
activity aggradation alluvial fans alluvium analysis anthropogenic archaeological deposits Archaeological Geology archaeological record archaeological sites archaeological survey Archaic areas artifacts Basin behavior Bettis bioturbation Birkeland boundary buried soils Butzer Casma Casma Valley channel chronology Climatic Change context correlation Courty cultural deposits Cyprus dating earthquake edited environmental changes environments eolian erosion evolution example excavation facies fault Ferring floodplain fluvial fluvial systems formation processes Geoarchaeology Geochronology Geological Society geomorphic Geomorphology glacial Goldberg Holliday Holocene horizons human interpretation Iowa landscape Late Quaternary Macphail Mandel materials methods Noller North occupation Paleosols patterns pedogenesis pedogenic Pedology period Peru petrography Plains Pleistocene pollen Pozorski Prehistoric proxy Quaternary Research radiocarbon regions River samples San Gregorio fault sand scale Schiffer Schumm SCSP sediment sedimentary sequence Society of America soil horizons soil micromorphology soil morphology stable stratigraphic studies surface tectonic temperate terraces Texas thin sections units Valley zone