1st Edition
Geoarchaeology in Action Studies in Soil Micromorphology and Landscape Evolution
By Charles French
Copyright 2003
320 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
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Routledge
320 Pages
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Routledge
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Geoarchaeology in Action provides much-needed 'hands on' methodologies to assist anyone conducting or studying geoarchaeological investigations on sites and in landscapes, irrespective of date, place and environment. The book sets out the essential features of geoarchaeological practice and geomorphological processes, and is deliberately aimed at the archaeologist as practitioner in the field.... Read more
Part 1: Some essential elements of geoarchaeology; 1: Issues and aims in geoarchaeology; 2: Processes of archaeological preservation; 3: Geomorphological processes; 4: Soils, sediments and buried soils; 5: Lowland and upland landscape systems; Part 2: Geoarchaeology in action; 6: The lower Welland valley, Cambridgeshire, England; 7: The Fengate shore, lower Nene valley and the Flag Fen basin, Cambridgeshire, England; 8: The lower Great Ouse valley, Cambridgeshire, England; 9: The development of the Cambridgeshire fenlands of eastern England; 10: The dyke survey in the northwestern Cambridgeshire fenlands; 11: Monitoring desiccation, erosion and preservation of sites and landscapes in the East Anglian wetlands and elsewhere; 12: Wyke Down and the upper Allen valley, Cranborne Chase, Dorset, England; 13: The lower Aguas basin, southeastern Spain; 14: The Troina river valley, north-central Sicily; 15: The Dhamar region, Central Highlands, Yemen; 16: The environs of Tell Brak, northeastern Syria; 17: The steppe at Botai, northeastern Kazakhstan; Conclusions
Biography
Charles French
'Reveals an astonishing diversity of sequences at the micro-regional scale ... this book is to be highly recommended to landscape historians and prehistorians.' – Landscape History
'This book [is] especially welcome since it is written in a clear and interesting style, accessible to student and field archaeologist alike ... a provocative and intelligent guide to the investigation of past landscapes using geoarchaeology.' – Antiquity
