Earth Sciences and Archaeology

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Paul 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.
 

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Examples
3
Chapter 1
5
GlacialInterglacial Cycles
13
Data versus Models
20
References
27
Introduction
28
55
33
A Review of Site Formation Processes and Their Relevance
37
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
Index
489
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