1st Edition

Environmental Archaeology Theoretical and Practical Approaches

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Environmental Archaeology: Theoretical and Practical Approaches outlines and assesses the various methods used to reconstruct and explain the past interaction between people and their environment. Emphasising the importance of a highly scientific approach to the subject, the book combines geoarchaeological, bioarchaeological (archaeobotany and zooarchaeology) and geochronological information... Read more
Introduction to environmental archeology
Defining the context: integrated approaches to statigraphy
Bioarchaeology
Dating the past and numerical analysis in environmental archaeology
An integrated approach to environmental archaeology

Biography

Nick Branch is Lecturer in Environmental Archaeology at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Matthew Canti is a Geoarchaeologist at the Centre for Archaeology, English Heritage, UK.
Peter Clark is Deputy Director at Canterbury Archaeological Trust, UK.
Chris Turney is Queen Elizabeth II fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia.