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Geology for archaeologists
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ISBN: 1784916889 9781784916886 1784916870 9781784916879 Year: 2017 Publisher: Summertown, Oxford

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This short introduction aims to provide archaeologists of all backgrounds with a grounding in the principles, materials, and methods of geology. Sections include coverage of main rock-forming minerals and classes of rocks. Geological maps and structures are introduced, and the elements of geological stratigraphy and dating are explained and related to archaeological experience. Fluvial and coastal environments are important archaeological landscapes and their formation processes, sediments and topography are outlined. Stone for building, implement-making, tool-making, and making mortar are all discussed, followed by an introduction to clays and ceramics. A final chapter introduces metallurgical landscapes: metalliferous ores, mining and smelting, and metal-making industries. Each chapter ends with a short reading list, and many have selected case-histories in illustration of the points made. Included is a glossary of technical terms.


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Geoarchaeology
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ISBN: 1350986593 1838608591 1838608605 9781838608590 9781788313018 1788313011 Year: 2018 Publisher: London

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"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 perspectives on environmental change has emerged. Carlos Cordova, provides a fully up-to-date account of geoarchaeology that reflects the important changes that have occurred in the past four decades. Innovative features include: the development of the human-ecological approach and the impact of technology on this approach; how the diversity of disciplines contributes to archaeological questions; frontiers of archaeology in the deep past, particularly the Anthropocene; the geoarchaeology of the contemporary past; the emerging field of ethno-geoarchaeology; the role of geoarchaeology in global environmental crises and climate change."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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Ephemeral hunter-gatherer archaeological sites
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ISBN: 0128044829 012804442X 9780128044827 9780128044421 Year: 2016 Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands Elsevier

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Sagalassos VI
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ISBN: 9461660472 9789461660473 9789058676610 9058676617 Year: 2008 Publisher: Leuven Leuven University Press

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Since 1990, the ancient city of Sagalassos in southwestern Turkey has been the focus of an interdisciplinary archaeological research project coordinated by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The papers collected in this volume reveal how the meticulous systematic and interdisciplinary reconstruction of the ecology and economy of the site and its territory has enhanced our understanding of the ancient settlement and its inhabitants beyond the traditional aspects of classical archaeology in Asia Minor. Highlighting geo-archaeological, archaeometrical, and bio-archaeological work performed withi


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Geological records of tsunamis and other extreme waves
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ISBN: 0128156864 9780128156865 0128156872 9780128156872 Year: 2020 Publisher: Amserdam, Netherlands Cambridge, MA

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Geological methods for archaeology
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ISBN: 0197560636 1280527498 0198025114 1429414588 9780198025115 9781429414586 9781280527494 9786610527496 6610527490 0195090241 9780195090246 9780197560631 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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'Geological Methods for Archaeology' discusses the application of geological methods and theory to archaeology. Written as a survey text covering appropriate methods and techniques taken from geology, geophysics, geochemistry and geochronology, it shows the student the practicality and importance of the techniques' use in solving archaeological problems. Specific techniques are illustrated by practical results obtained from their use on archaeological digs.


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A Handbook of geoarchaeological approaches for investigating landscapes and settlement sites
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ISBN: 1785700928 9781785700927 9781785700941 1785700944 9781785700910 178570091X 9781785700934 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford

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"Geoarchaeology is a major branch of archaeological science at the interfaces between geology, geography and archaeology, involving the combined study of archaeological, soil and geomorphological records and the recognition of how natural, climatic and human-induced processes alter landscapes. The formation and modification of past soils, and occupation sequences can be examined primarily through the use of soil micromorphological techniques and various physical and geo-chemical techniques. This short text aims to explain some of the basics of geoarchaeological approaches and research design used to tackle the investigation of landscapes and settlement archaeology, and the application of soil micromorphology to archaeological situations. The intention is to present a basic handbook of good practice, with case studies and examples, that any archaeologist or aspiring geoarchaeologist can use."--Publisher's website.


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Inscriptions of nature
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ISBN: 1421438755 9781421438757 9781421438740 1421438747 Year: 2020 Publisher: Baltimore

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"This theoretical book is a work of history and of cultural studies. Through analyses of Gondwana, India, and its geological, anthropological, and cultural histories, the book describes how human evolution, mythological geographies, tribal aboriginality, and colonial state formation fundamentally defined India's antiquity"--


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The geoarchaeology of a terraced landscape
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ISBN: 1647690722 9781647690724 9781647690229 Year: 2021 Publisher: Salt Lake City

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"This manuscript uses geoarchaeology and the study of landscapes to look at the agrarian history of a settlement in the Toluca Valley, central Mexico, from prehistoric to historic times. It is based on both survey and excavation data, plus geoarchaeological and archival research. It explores how social circumstance promotes the improvement or degradation of agricultural land prehistorically, then the impact of Spanish colonialism on these agrarian systems, and finally, how the long-term modification of these landscapes impacts the valley in post-colonial times"--


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Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica
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ISSN: 23361220 1804848X

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