TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rapp,George Robert
AU  - Hill,Christopher L.
TI  - Geoarchaeology: the earth-science approach to archaeological interpretation 
SN  - 0300070756
AV  - CC77.5 .R37 1998
U1  - 930.10285 22
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Archaeology
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Archaeological geology
KW  - Archaeologie
KW  - Methodologie
KW  - Geoarcheologie
KW  - geoarchaeology
KW  - aat
KW  - 15.30 archaeology: general
KW  - bcl
KW  - fast
KW  - Geoarchaologie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Geologie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Archeologie
KW  - nli
KW  - ram
KW  - swd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index; THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: The domain of geoarchaeology -- A history of the interaction between Earth sciences and archaeology -- SEDIMENTS AND SOILS AND THE CREATION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD: Sediments -- Classification of sedimentation products -- Soils and buried soils -- Inferring environments from physical and chemical parameters -- CONTEXTS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD FORMATION: Stages of site formation -- Initial landscapes and original occupation -- Sedimentary settings -- Postdepositional processes -- PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTIONS: HUMANS, CLIMATES, AND ANCIENT LANDSCAPES: Lake Records and Geoecology -- Inferring environmental change -- Ecology and landscape change -- Plant remains as clues to environmental and climatic change -- Animal remains as clues to environmental conditions -- Other ecological accumulations -- Isotopes and chemical ratios as environmental indicators -- Environmental change and archaeological interpretation -- Microclimates -- RAW MATERIALS AND RESOURCES: Minerals -- Metals and ores -- Rocks -- Shells -- Clays -- Building materials -- Other materials -- Rock and mineral recovery -- Water -- PROVENANCE STUDIES: Geologic deposits -- Materials used in geologic sourcing -- Methods used in geologic sourcing -- ESTIMATING AGE IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD: Stratigraphy -- Dating techniques based on animal and plant remains -- Dating techniques based on chemical accumulation -- Temperature-affected dating -- Radiometric dating -- Radiation dating -- Dating exposed surfaces -- GEOLOGIC MAPPING, REMOTE SENSING, AND SURVEYING: Geologic maps and mapping -- Remote sensing -- Core drilling -- Geochemical prospecting and analysis -- geographic information systems -- The complexitites of scale -- CONSTRUCTION, DESTRUCTION, SITE PRESERVATION, AND CONSERVATION: Ancient geotechnology -- Construction -- Excavation -- Natural burial of sites -- Destruction -- Site preservation -- Conservation -- The future
N2  - This textbook offers an integrated approach to geoarchaeology (the direct use of geologic concepts, methods and knowledge to solve archaeological problems and interpret archaeological records)
ER  -