Dena Ferran Dincauze

Environmental Archaeology

Principles and Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Authoritative and essential guide to methods interpreting the ecology of archaeological sites, and their applications.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 620
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1054g
• ISBN-13: 9780521310772
• ISBN-10: 0521310776
• Artikelnr.: 22401264

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Environmental archaeology and human ecology
2. Concepts for paleoenvironmental reconstruction
3. Mechanisms of environmental change
4. Human responses to environmental change
Part II: 5. Introduction to chronometry and correlation
6. Measuring time with isotopes and magnetism
Part III: 7. Climate: the driving forces
8. Climate reconstruction
Part IV. Geomorphology: 9. Landforms
10. Landforms of shores and shallow water
Part V. Sediments and Soils: 11. Basic principles of sedimentology and soils science
12. Archaeological matrices
Part V. Vegetation: 13. Concepts and methods of paleobotany
14. Vegetation in paleoecology
15. Concepts and methods for faunal paleoenvironments
16. Faunal paleoecology
17. Humans among animals
Part VIII. Integration: 18. Anthropocentric paleoecology.