Research Catalog

Title

Geoarchaeology, climate change, and sustainability / edited by Antony G. Brown, Laura S. Basell, Karl W. Butzer.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• Basell, Laura S.
• Brown, A. G. (Antony Gavin), 1958-
• Butzer, Karl W.

Description

vii, 194 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 28 cm.

Summary

This volume provides a broad survey of recent advances in geoarchaeology with particular attention to environmental change. The fourteen chapters include methodologically innovative research, case studies valuable for teaching, and the use of geological techniques to answer archaeological questions from lower Paleolithic hunting to the location of Homer's Ithaca. The research presented here clearly demonstrates the value and practical application of geoarchaeological techniques from sediment-based dating to geographic information systems.

Series Statement

Special paper ; 476

Uniform Title

Special papers (Geological Society of America) 476.

Subject

• Archaeological geology
• Paleoclimatology
• Paleoecology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Geoarchaeology, climate change, sustainability : a Mediterranean perspective / Karl W. Butzer -- Valdoe : a new Middle Pleistocene locality in the Boxgrove paleolandscape (West Sussex, UK) / Matthew I. Pope and Mark B. Roberts -- Geoarchaeology of Paleolithic rivers of southwest Britain / Laura S. Basell ... [et al.] -- Rolling stones : understanding river-rolled Paleolithic artifact assemblages / Robert T. Hosfield -- Mapping the landform assemblages and archaeological record of the lower Khuzestan plain (SW Iran) using remote-sensing and GIS techniques / Laëtitia Dupin -- Geomorphological study and paleogeographic evolution of NW Kefalonia Island, Greece, concerning the hypothesis of a possible location of the Homeric Ithaca / Kalliopi Gaki-Papanastassiou ... [et al.] -- Sand dune morphodynamics and prehistoric human occupation in NW Ireland / Jasper Knight and Helene Burningham -- Holocene sedimentation in a pericoastal river system (South Wales, UK) : relationship to sea level, human activity, and coastal sediment flux / Simon K. Haslett -- Environmental change and evidence for archaic and woodland floodplain occupation along the lower Nottawasaga River, southern Ontario, Canada / Mary J. Thornbush and Joseph R. Desloges -- Geoarchaeology and archaeological landscapes in the Till River valley, northern England / David G. Passmore ... [et al.] -- Holocene channel changes and geoarchaeology of the Exe River, Devon, UK, and the floodplain paradox / Jenny A. Bennett ... [et al.] -- Urban geoarchaeology and sustainability : a case study from Manhattan Island, New York City, USA / Joseph Schuldenrein and Michael Aiuvalasit -- Contribution of English Heritage Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund research to geoarchaeology and sustainability / Ingrid Ward -- Aggregate-related archaeology in England in a changing environment / Antony G. Brown.

ISBN

• 9780813724768 (pbk.)
• 0813724767 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010046617

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library