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Title Encyclopedia of geoarchaeology / edited by Allan S. Gilbert ; with associate editors: Paul Goldberg, Vance T. Holliday, Rolfe D. Mandel, Robert S. Sternberg
Published Dordrecht : Springer, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 1046 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color)
Series Encyclopedia of earth sciences series
Springer reference
Springer reference.
Encyclopedia of earth sciences series (Springer (Firm))
Contents 'Ain Ghazal -- Akrotiri Aetokremno, Cyprus -- Alluvial Settings -- Amino Acid Racemization -- Analysis of Carbon, Nitrogen, pH, Phosphorus, and Carbonates as Tools in Geoarchaeological Research -- Anthrosols -- ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and K-Ar Geochronology -- Archaeological Stratigraphy -- Archaeomagnetic Dating -- Archaeomineralogy -- Archaeoseismology -- Arctic Geoarchaeology: Site Formation Processes -- Artifact Conservation -- Atapuerca -- Beringia, Geoarchaeology -- Big Eddy Site, Missouri -- Blombos Cave -- Boxgrove -- Built Environment -- Burned-Rock Features -- Cactus Hill, Virginia -- Caves and Aqueducts in the Ancient World -- Casper Site, Wyoming -- Çatalhöyük -- Cave Settings -- Ceramics -- Cerén -- Chemical Alteration -- Chronostratigraphy -- Climatostratigraphy (Climostratigraphy) -- Coastal Settings -- Colluvial Settings -- Cosmogenic Isotopic Dating -- Data Visualization -- Dendrochronology -- Dmanisi -- Dolní Věstonice, Pavlov, Milovice -- Dumps and Landfill -- Dust Cave, Alabama -- Eastern Sahara: Combined Prehistoric Expedition -- El Mirón Cave -- Electrical Resistivity and Electromagnetism -- Electron Probe Microanalyzer -- Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) in Archaeological Context -- Eolian Settings: Loess -- Eolian Settings: Sand -- Ethnogeoarchaeology -- Experimental Geoarchaeology -- Field Geochemistry -- Field Survey -- Fission Track Dating -- Fluorine Dating -- Forensic Geoarchaeology -- Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) -- Gas Chromatography -- Geoarchaeology, History -- Geochemical Sourcing -- Geographical Information Systems (GIS) -- Geomorphology -- Geophysics -- Gesher Benot Ya'aqov -- Glacial Settings -- Glass -- Grain Size Analysis -- Great Plains Geoarchaeology -- Grimaldi Caves -- Ground-Penetrating Radar -- Harappa -- Harbors and Ports, Ancient -- Harris Matrices and the Stratigraphic Record -- Haua Fteah -- Hearths and Combustion Features -- Hohle Fels -- House Pits and Grubenhäuser -- Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) -- Inundated Freshwater Settings -- Isernia -- Isochron Dating -- Java (Indonesia) -- Kebara Cave -- Kennewick Man -- Kostenki, Russia -- Koster Site, Illinois -- La Micoque -- Lake Mungo and Willandra -- Landscape Archaeology -- Lead Isotopes -- Liang Bua -- Lithics -- Living Surfaces -- Loessic Paleolithic, Tajikistan -- Luminescence Dating of Pottery and Bricks -- Magnetometry for Archaeology -- Mass Movement -- Metals -- Microstratigraphy -- Minnesota Messenia Expedition (MME) -- Monte Circeo Caves -- Monte Verde -- Mount Carmel -- Neutron Activation Analysis -- Niah Cave -- Olduvai -- Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) Dating -- Organic Residues -- Ötzi, the Tyrolean Iceman -- Oxygen Iotopes -- Paleopathology -- Paleodemography: Methods and Recent Advances -- Paleodiet -- Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction -- Paleomagnetism -- Paleoshores (Lakes and Sea) -- Paludal Settings (Wetland Archaeology) -- Pastoral Sites -- Petroglyphs -- Petrography -- Pigments -- Pinnacle Point -- Pompeii and Herculaneum -- Poverty Point Site, Louisiana -- Pre-Clovis Geoarchaeology -- Privies and Latrines -- Radiocarbon Dating -- Raman -- Remote Sensing in Archaeology -- Rockshelter Settings -- Santorini -- Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) -- Sedimentology -- Shell Middens -- Shipwreck Geoarchaeology -- Site Formation Processes -- Site Preservation -- Soil Geomorphology -- Soil Micromorphology -- Soil Stratigraphy -- Soil Survey -- Soils -- Soils, Agricultural -- Southwestern US Geoarchaeology -- Speleothems -- Spring Settings -- Stable Carbon Isotopes in Soils -- Sterkfontein/Swartkrans/Kromdraai -- Stonehenge -- Stratigraphy -- Strontium Isotopes -- Submerged Continental Shelf Prehistory -- Susceptibility -- Swanscombe -- Tells -- Tephrochronology -- Tombs -- Trampling -- Troy -- Tsunamis -- 'Ubeidiya -- U-Series Dating -- Volcanoes and People -- Wells and Reservoirs -- X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Spectrometry in Geoarchaeology -- X-ray Diffraction (XRD) -- York -- Zhoukoudian
Summary Geoarchaeology is the archaeological subfield that focuses on archaeological information retrieval and problem solving utilizing the methods of geological investigation. Archaeological recovery and analysis are already geoarchaeological in the most fundamental sense because buried remains are contained within and removed from an essentially geological context. Yet geoarchaeological research goes beyond this simple relationship and attempts to build collaborative links between specialists in archaeology and the earth sciences to produce new knowledge about past human behavior using the technical information and methods of the geosciences.0The principal goals of geoarchaeology lie in understanding the relationships between humans and their environment. These goals include (1) how cultures adjust to their ecosystem through time, (2) what earth science factors were related to the evolutionary emergence of humankind, and (3) which methodological tools involving analysis of sediments and landforms, documentation and explanation of change in buried materials, and measurement of time will allow access to new aspects of the past
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Archaeological geology -- Encyclopedias
Archaeological geology
Genre/Form encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.
Form Electronic book
Author Gilbert, Allan S., 1948- editor.
Goldberg, Paul, editor.
Holliday, Vance T., editor.
Mandel, Rolfe D., 1952- editor.
Sternberg, Robert Saul, editor.
ISBN 9781402044090
1402044097
9789400748286
9400748280