Earth Sciences and Archaeology

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-1-4613-5433-8
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 513 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1009 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldberg, Paul

Ferring, C. Reid

Holliday, Vance T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie: Theorie und Methoden
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Bodenkunde, Sedimentologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geomorphologie, Erosion, Glaziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Background.- 1 Quaternary Geoscience In Archaeology.- 2 A Review of Site Formation Processes and Their Relevance to Geoarchaeology.- II. Geomorphological Studies.- 3 Evaluating Causality of Landscape Change: Examples from Alluviation.- 4 Geoarchaeology in Alluvial Landscapes.- 5 A Geomorphological Approach to Reconstructing Archaeological Settlement Patterns Based on Surficial Artifact Distribution: Replacing Humans on the Landscape.- 6 Archaeoseismology: Shaking Out the History of Humans and Earthquakes.- III. Soils, Sediments, and Microstratigraphy.- 7 Use and Analysis of Soils by Archaeologists and Geoscientists: A North American Perspective.- 8 Microfacies Analysis Assisting Archaeological Stratigraphy.- 9 The Soil Micromorphologist as Team Player: A Multianalytical Approach to the Study of European Microstratigraphy.- 10 Buried Artifacts in Sandy Soils: Techniques for Evaluating Pedoturbation versus Sedimentation.- IV. Specific Techniques.- 11 The Role of Petrography in the Study of Archaeological Ceramics.- 12 Microartifacts.- 13 Current Practices in Archaeogeophysics: Magnetics, Resistivity, Conductivity, and Ground-Penetrating Radar.- V. Geochemical Methods.- 14 Beyond 14C Dating: A User’s Guide to Long-Range Dating Methods in Archaeology.- 15 Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in Soils: Applications for Archaeological Research.- 16 Sourcing Lithic Artifacts by Instrumental Analyses.- VI. A Prehistorian’s Perspective.- 17 A Personal View of Earth Sciences’Contributions to Archaeology.