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Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology provides an invaluable overview of geoarchaeology and how it can be used effectively in the study of archaeological sites and contexts. Taking a pragmatic and functional approach, this book presents a fundamental, broad-based perspective of the essentials of...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118688182 |
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Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology provides an invaluable overview of geoarchaeology and how it can be used effectively in the study of archaeological sites and contexts. Taking a pragmatic and functional approach, this book presents a fundamental, broad-based perspective of the essentials of modern geoarchaeology in order to demonstrate the breadth of the approaches and the depth of the problems that it can tackle. This book reflects the rapid advances made in the discipline in recent years, but also gives the reader a firm grasp of conventional approaches. It covers traditional topic |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xii, 454 p., [8] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [404]-441) and index. |
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9781118688182 (electronic bk.) 111868818X (electronic bk.) 9781444312256 (electronic bk.) 1444312251 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | CC77 |
| CLC: | K854.2 |
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Part I: Traditional Geoarchaeology -- 1 Sediments -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Types of sediment -- 2 Stratigraphy -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Stratigraphy and stratigraphic principles -- 2.3 Facies and microfacies -- 2.4 Correlation -- 2.5 Keeping track: the Harris Matrix -- 2.6 Conclusions -- Box 2.1 The Paleoindian-Archaic site of Wilson-Leonard, Texas -- 3 Soils -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The five soil forming factors -- 3.3 Soil profiles and soil properties -- 3.4 Important soil forming processes -- 3.5 Conclusions -- Box 3.1 The five factors of soil formation and Bronze Age Brean Down, UK 8 Caves and rockshelters -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Formation of caves and rock shelters -- 8.3 Cave deposits and processes -- 8.4 Environmental reconstruction -- 8.5 Conclusions -- Box 8.1 Kebara Cave, Israel -- Part II Nontraditional Geoarchaeological Approaches -- 9 Human impact on landscape: forest clearance, soil modifications, and cultivation -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Forest clearance and soil changes -- 9.3 Forest and woodland clearance features -- 9.4 Cultivation and manuring -- 9.5 Landscape effects -- 9.6 Conclusions -- Box 9.1 Cultivation at Late Roman/Saxon Oakley, Suffolk, UK - 14 Applications of geoarchaeology to forensic science -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Soils and clandestine graves -- 14.3 Provenancing and obtaining geoarchaeological information from crime scenes -- 14.4 Other potential methods -- 14.5 Practical approaches to forensic soil sampling and potential for soil micromorphology -- 14.6 Conclusions -- Part III Field and Laboratory Methods, Data, and Reporting -- 15 Field-based methods -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Regional-scale methods -- 15.3 Shallow geophysical methods -- 15.4 Coring and trenching techniques -- 15.5 Describing sections: soils and se |