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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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Goldberg, Paul, Holliday, Vance T., Ferring, C. Reid
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum, [2001]
Subjects:
Archaeological geology.
Archaeological geology > Methodology.
Earth sciences.
Earth sciences > Methodology.
Archeologie.
Geologie.
Methodologie.
Géoarchéologie.
Géoarchéologie > Méthodologie.
Sciences de la terre.
Sciences de la terre > Méthodologie.
Archäologie.
Geowissenschaften.
Methode.
Sciences de la Terre > Méthodologie.
Archéologie > Méthodologie.
Géologie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Quaternary geoscience in archaeology / Vance T. Holliday
  • A review of site formation processes and their relevance to geoarchaeology / Julie K. Stein
  • Evaluating causality of landscape change: examples from alluviation / Charles Frederick
  • Geoarchaeology in alluvial landscapes / C. Reid Ferring
  • A geomorphological approach to reconstructing archaeological settlement patterns based on surficial artifact distribution: replacing humans on the landscape / Lisa E. Wells
  • Archaeoseismology: shaking out the history of humans and earthquakes / Jay Stratton Noller
  • Use and analysis of soils by archaeologists and geoscientists: a North American perspective / Rolfe D. Mandel, E. Arthur Bettis III
  • Microfacies analysis assisting archaeological stratigraphy / Marie-Agnès Courty
  • The soil micromorphologist as team player: a multianalytical approach to the study of European microstratigraphy / Richard Macphail, Jill Cruise
  • Buried artifacts in sandy soils : techniques for evaluating pedoturbation versus sedimentation / David S. Leigh
  • The role of petography in the study of archaeological ceramics / James B. Stoltman
  • Microartifacts / Sarah C. Sherwood
  • Current practices in archaeogeophysics: magnetics, resistivity, conductivity, ground-penetrating radar / Kenneth L. Kvamme
  • Beyond 14C dating: a user's guide to long-range dating methods in archaeology / W. Jack Rink
  • Stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in soils: application for archaeological research / Lee C. Nordt
  • Sourcing lithic artifacts by instrumental analyses / Norman Herz
  • A personal view of earth sciences' contributions to archaeology / Ofer Bar-Yosef.