Geoarchaeology : the human environment approach /: the human environment approach. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Carlos Cordova.
• Authors: Cordova, Carlos E, 1965-
• Contents: List of figuresList of tablesIntroduction Chapter 1 The nature of geoarchaeology The nature of geoarchaeology and its practitionersThe three major traditions in geoarchaeologyThe field and its status in and outside sciencePractice, training, and rapidly evolving subfieldsChapter 2 Theoretical and methodological foundationsIntroductionTheory in geoarchaeologyThe geoarchaeological methodModels of inquiry and interpretationReconstructing the pastThe explanation of a complex and chaotic worldConcluding remarksChapter 3 The geoarchaeological record: Concept and contextsAn epistemological backgroundAn all-inclusive geoarchaeological recordThe contextual levels: site, setting, landscape and environmentModels of interpretationChapter 4 The geoarchaeological record: Interpretation issuesVisualizing time, causality, and contextCausality in natural and cultural transform processesTime-transgressive phenomena and multi-causal effectsArchaeological visibility, invisibility, and absenceThe virtues of off-site geoarchaeologyLegacy effects, relicts, and palimpsestsModern analogs, reference analogs, and modern referencesSampling and interpretation of the recordCorrelation and its issuesChapter 5 The human-environmental tradition in geoarchaeology IntroductionThe ecological paradigm The ecological context in geoarchaeologyGeoarchaeology after Archaeology as Human EcologyThe rise of the Anthropocene and global climate changePerspectives on the anthropic and non-anthropic worldsGeoarchaeology and environmental historyChapter 6 Geoarchaeology and human evolutionIntroductionGeology, climate changes, and biogeographyGeoarchaeology in paleoanthropological researchContextual and issues Case 6.1 Context and scale in the Olduvai hominin recordChapter 7 Geoarchaeology and the anthropization of the world IntroductionThe proto-anthropic period as a gray zoneGeoarchaeology and the pre- and proto-anthropic periodsCase 7.1 Between paleontological and archaeological sites: Geoarchaeological issues in Pre-Clovis mammoth localitiesCase 7.2 The geoarchaeology of early Australian human environments at Lake MungoChapter 8 The geoarchaeology of hunter-gatherer landscapesIntroductionHunter-gatherer societies and their environmental contextsGeoarchaeological approaches to hunter-gatherer landscaapesCase 8.1 Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherers of the Eastern Levant. Sites, settings and landscapes in a rapidly changing environmentCase 8.2: The geoarchaeology of the Archaic period in the Great Plains of North AmericaChapter 9 The record of early agriculture and its diffusion IntroductionAgricultural beginnings: Contextual modelsNeolithic impacts at different scalesGeoarchaeological context and research strategiesCase 9.1 Geoarchaeology of two Near Eastern Neolithic settlements: Ain Ghazal and Ain Abu-Nukhaila, and the first agricultural environmental crisisCase 9.2 The elusive environmental impact of the arrival of pastoralism in Southern Africa.Chapter 10 Complex societal-environmental systems and the collapse phenomenonIntroductionComplex societal-environmental systemsThe rise and collapse phenomenonResearch contextsCase 10.1 Ancient sustainability, risks, management, and centralization in large river basins: Three examples.Case 10.2 The Classic Maya collapse and the degradation of soils in the Maya lowlands: Geoarchaeological models of landscape transformation.Chapter 11 The geoarchaeology of rural landscapesIntroductionThe rural landscape: concepts and environmental approaches Geoarchaeological strategies in rural contextsCase 11.1 The Ancient Greek rural landscape of CrimeaCase 11.2 Xaltocan: The geoarchaeology of a complex lacustrine society before Tenochtitlan. Chapter 12 Human-environmental approaches to soils and paleosolsIntroductionThematic approaches to paleosolsThe.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume.)
• Subjects: 930.1; Archaeological geology; Archaeological geology; HISTORY / Ancient / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781838608590; 1838608591
• Related ISBNs: 9781788313018; 1788313011
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 14, 2019).
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