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Geoarchaeology : the human environment approach /

"'Geoarchaeology is traditionally concerned with reconstructing the environmental aspects of past societies using the methods of the earth sciences. The field has been steadily enriched by scholars from a diversity of disciplines and much has happened as the importance of global perspectiv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cordova, Carlos E., 1965- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Series:Politics & international relations (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Subjects:
Archaeological geology.
Géoarchéologie.
geoarchaeology.
Archaeological geology
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Nature of Geoarchaeology
  • Chapter 2. Theoretical and Methodological Foundations
  • Chapter 3. The Geoarchaeological Record : Concept and Contexts
  • Chapter 4. The Geoarchaeological Record : Interpretation Issues
  • Chapter 5. The Human-Environmental Tradition in Geoarchaeology
  • Chapter 6. Geoarchaeology and Human Evolution
  • Chapter 7. Geoarchaeology and the Anthropization of the World
  • Chapter 8. The Geoarchaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Landscapes
  • Chapter 9. The Record of Early Agriculture and its Diffusion
  • Chapter 10. Complex Societal-Environmental Systems and the Collapse Phenomenon
  • Chapter 11. The Geoarchaeology of Rural Landscapes
  • Chapter 12. Human-Environmental Approaches to Soils and Paleosols
  • Chapter 13. The Geoarchaeology of Natural Disasters
  • Chapter 14. Environmental Crises in the Geoarchaeological Record
  • Chapter 15. Native and Colonial Landscapes
  • Chapter 16. Geoarchaeology and Modern Traditional Societies
  • Chapter 17. Geoarchaeology of the Contemporary Past
  • References
  • Index.