ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY: PRINCIPLES AND METHODS
Written by John Evans, Terry O'Connor
Published by Sutton Publishing
in 1999
ISBN: 0750917784
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- ARCHAEOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY: PRINCIPLES AND METHODS
Written by John Evans, Terry O'Connor.
Stock no. 2136110
1st.
1999.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Black cloth with gilt title to spine. Looks at the role of environmental studies within archaeology. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0750917784. Spotting to covers. Foxing to outer page edges.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- PART I: LIFE
- 2 HUMAN ENVIRONMENT
- Lithosphere
- Atmosphere
- Topography
- Biosphere
- People
- 3 ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
- The Biosphere
- Soil Processes
- Sedimentation
- 4 ECO SYSTEMS
- Definition and Characteristics of Ecosystems
- Space
- Time
- Gradients
- Succession
- Humans
- A Classification of Ecosystems
- Changing Fundamentals
- PART II: FROM DEATH TO BURIAL
- 5 A CRANNOG AND ITS ENVIRONMENT
- Different Categories of Materials
- Different Scales of Space
- Relevance of the Spatial Integrity of the Data
- The Special Nature of the Site
- The Site Catchment
- 6 DEATH ASSEMBLAGE FORMATION
- Death or Organisms
- Modelling Death Assemblages
- Community Death
- Ecosystem Abandonment
- Ecosystem Death by Burial
- 7 DEPOSITION AND POST-DEPOSITION
- The Nature of Archaeology
- Physico-Chemical Conditions
- Movement and Change
- Post-Deposition Transformation of Land and Archaeology
- Representativeness of Preservation
- PART III:PROCEDURES AND METHODS
- 8 RESEARCH DESIGNS AND SAMPLING STRATEGIES
- The Global View
- Spatial Areas of Research
- Intra-Areal Sampling
- Small-Scale Strategies
- Methods
- 9 METHODS OF EXAMINING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISTRBUTIONS
- Recording Systems
- Modern Maps
- Aerial Photography
- Historical Documents and Toponymy
- Ground Level Survey
- Phosphate and Magnetic Susceptibility Measurement
- Geophysics
- Biogeography
- Conclusions
- 10 ANALYSIS AND USE OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS
- Mapping
- Field Description
- Bulk Laboratory Analysis
- Micromorphology
- Soils and Sediments in Archaeology
- 11 BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS
- General Issues
- Plant Microfossils
- Plant Macrofossils
- Wood
- Invertebrates
- Vertebrates
- 12 CONTEXTS
- Molecules, Isotopes and Increments
- Archaeological Features and Sites
- Big Areas
- PART IV: INTERPRETATION
- 13 DATA ANALYSIS
- Grouping Data Internally
- Methods which use Individual Species' Ecology
- 14 POSSIBILISTIC STUDIES
- Human-Life Studies
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Experiment
- Ethnoarchaeology Experiment and Taphonomy
- Site Exploitation Analysis
- Thiessen Polygons
- Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation
- 15 CASE STUDIES
- Northern England: The Roman Impact
- The Earlier Neolithic of the English Chalk
- Soils and Human Land-use
- 16 THE HUMAN NICHE: A BASIC UNIT OF STUDY FOR ARCHAEOLOGY
- References
- Index