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Archaeological geology of North America / edited by Norman P. Lasca, Jack Donahue.

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Archaeological geology of North America / edited by Norman P. Lasca, Jack Donahue.
Publication
Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 1990.

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  • Lasca, Norman P., 1934-
  • Donahue, Jack, 1938-
  • Geological Society of America
Description
x, 633 p. : ill., maps; 29 cm.
Series Statement
Centennial special volume ; 4
Uniform Title
Centennial special volume ; 4.
Subject
  • Archaeological geology > North America
  • Indians of North America > Antiquities
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > North America
  • North America > Antiquities
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Review of late-glacial and Holocene events in the Champlain and Goldthwait Seas areas and arrival of man in eastern Canada / Pierre LaSalle and Claude Chapdelaine -- Geoarchaeology of the Cummins site on the beach of proglaical Lake Minong, Lake Superior Basin, Canada / P. J. Julig, J. H. McAndrews, and William C. Mahaney -- The early occupations of the Glacial Lake Agassiz basin in Manitoba / A. P. Buchner and L. F. Pettipas -- Archaeological geology in western Canada / Michael Clayton Wilson -- Archaeological geology of sites in western and northwestern Canada / Peter T. Bobrowsky ... [et al.] -- Geoarchaeological studies of the Beaver River Sandstone, northeastern Alberta / Mark M. Fenton and John W. Ives Environmental factors affecting prehistoric shellfish utilization; Grape Isladn, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts / J. Richard Jones and John J. Fisher -- Prospecting for submerged archaeological sites on the continental shelf; Southern mid-Atlantic Bight of North America / William H. Hoyt, John C. Kraft, and Michael J. Chrzastowski -- Depositional history of an archaeologically dated flood plain, Haw River, North Carolina / Curtis E. Larsen and Joseph Schuldenrein Point bar geoarchaeology in the Upper Coastal Plain of the Savannah River Valley, South Carolina / Mark J. Brooks and Kenneth E. Sassaman.
  • A soil-geomorphic analysis of the midden deposits at the Aztalan site, Wisconsin / Michael F. Kolb, Norman P. Lasca, and Lynne G. Goldstein -- The mineralogy of Wyandotte Cave aragonite, Indiana, and its archaeological significance / Kenneth B. Tankersley ... [et al.] -- Evolution of sandstone rockshelters in eastern North America / Jack Donahue and James M. Adovasio -- Archaeological geology of the Southern Plains / C. Reid Ferring -- Geoarchaeology of the Kansas River basin, central Great Plains / William C. Johnson and Brad Logan -- The archaeological geology of the Calico site, Mojave Desert, California / Roy J. Shlemon and Fred E. Budinger, Jr. -- Late Quaternary alluvial stratigraphy and early Holocene archaeology of Whitewater Draw, Arizona / Michael R. Waters -- Holocene landscapes of the San Juan Bsin, New Mexico / Stephen A. Hall -- Late Pleistocene and Holocene pedogenic and environmental trends at archaeological sites in plains and mountain areas of Colorado and Wyoming / Richard G. Reider -- Microstratigraphic analysis of sediments and soils; Wasden archaeological site, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho / Ula L. Moody and Wakefield Dort, Jr. -- A regional application of tephrochronoly in Alaska / E. James Dixon and George S. Smith -- Geologic contexts of archaeological sites in Beringia.
  • Applications of molluscan microgrowth analysis to geoarchaeology; a case study from Costa Rica / Eric Pallant -- Caves and tunnels at Teotihuacan, Mexico / L. A. Barba P. ... [et al.] -- Archaeological sites on the North American continental shelf / Melanie J. Stright -- Mollusks and coastal archaeology / Harold B. Rollins, Daniel H. Sandweiss, and Judith C. Rollins -- Native copper sources of artifact copper in pre-Columbian North America / George Rapp, Jr., Eiler Henrickson, and James Allert -- New archaeomettallurgical perspectives on the Old Copper industry of North America / William W. Vernon -- Archaeological stratigraphy / Julie K. Stein -- Pedology in archaeology / Vance T. Holliday. The soil-evolution model as a framework for evaluating pedoturbation in archaeological site formation / Donald L. Johnson and Donna Watson-Stegner -- Chert petrography and its potential as an analytical tool in archaeology / Donald R. Prothero and Lucianne Lavin -- Stable isotope geochemistry applied to archaeology / Norman Herz -- Some uses for the magnetic properties of materials in archaeological sites / D. H. Tarling -- Applications of high-resolution geophysical methods to archaeology / Jeffrey C. Wynn.
ISBN
081375304X
LCCN
^^^90002936^
OCLC
  • 21197811
  • SCSB-10127280
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library