Research Catalog

Title

Wet site archaeology / edited by Barbara A. Purdy ; editorial assistant, Elise V. Le Compte.

Publication

Caldwell, N.J. : Telford Press, ©1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Purdy, Barbara A.
• National Endowment for the Humanities.
• University of Florida.
• International Conference on Wet Site Archaeology (1986 : Gainesville, Fla.)

Description

xiii, 338 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Subject

• Water-saturated sites (Archaeology) > Congresses
• Archaeology > Methodology > Congresses
• Wetlands > Congresses
• Archaeology > Methodology
• Water-saturated sites (Archaeology)
• Wetlands
• Zones humides (archéologie) > Congrès
• Archéologie > Méthodologie > Congrès
• Palaffites > Congrès

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Proceedings of International Conference on Wet Site Archaeology, Gainesville, Fla., Dec. 12-14, 1986; sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities and University of Florida.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

A wetland perspective / John M. Coles -- Problems and responsibilities in the excavation of wet sites / Richard D. Daugherty -- Recent archaeological discoveries in Lake Neuchatel, Switzerland : from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages / Michel D. Egloff -- The peat hag / John M. Coles -- The location and assessment of underwater archaeological sites / Reynold J. Ruppé -- New applications of remote sensing : geophysical prospection for underwater archaeological sites in Switzerland / E. Gary Stickel and Ervan G. Garrison -- The Somerset levels : multidisciplinary investigations and a wealth of results / Bryony Coles -- Wet sites archaeology at Red Bay, Labrador / James A. Tuck -- A waterlogged site on Huahine Island, French Polynesia / Yosihiko H. Sinoto -- The significance of the 3000 B.P. Hoko River waterlogged fishing camp in our understanding of southern Northwest Coast cultural evolution / Dale R. Croes -- Research design and wet site archaeology in the Netherlands : an example -- Sander E. van der Leeuw and R.W. Brandt -- Early rainforest archaeology in southwestern South America : research context, design and data at Monte Verde / Tom D. Dillehay -- The skeletons of Herculaneum, Italy / Sara Bisel -- An assembly of death : bog bodies of northern and western Europe / John M. Coles -- Treatment of waterlogged wood / David W. Grattan -- Marco's buried treasure : wetlands archaeology and adventure in nineteenth century Florida / Marion S. Gilliland -- Multidisciplinary investigations at the Windover Site / Glen H. Doran and David N. Dickel -- Settlement, subsistence and environment : aspects of cultural development within the wetlands of east-central Florida / Brenda Sigler-Eisenberg -- Environments of Florida in the late Wisconsin and Holocene / William A. Watts and Barbara C.S. Hansen -- Archaeological wet sites : untapped archives of prehistoric documents / Barbara A. Purdy.

ISBN

• 0936923075
• 9780936923079
• 0936923083
• 9780936923086

LCCN

87033911

OCLC

• ocm17299012
• 17299012
• SCSB-1714690

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library