Sediments in archaeological context / edited by Julie K. Stein and William R. Farrand.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stein, Julie K.

Farrand, William R., 1931-2011.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology, Stratigraphic--Quaternary.

Geology, Stratigraphic.

Geology, Stratigraphic--Tertiary.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Physical Description:

xiii, 218 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

[Updated edition].

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2001]

Summary:

Almost every artifact in archaeological analysis originates in or on the ground. While there are elaborate methods for extracting and analyzing artifacts, treatment of the matrix within which they are located is often unsophisticated and does not include systematic analysis.

Sediments in Archaeological Context concerns the analysis of this matrix and the potential use of sediments to answer archaeological questions. Describing sediments and sampling them in appropriate ways cannot replace the study of artifacts but can provide additional, useful information for a site complex, its physical environment, and the relations of artifacts to each other.

Each chapter in the volume considers sediments within a specific context. Topics include sediments found in a variety of environments: cultural environments, rockshelter and cave environments, dryland alluvial environments, humid alluvial environments, lake environments, shoreline environments, and spring and wetland environments. Sediments in Archaeoligical Context is intended for every archaeologist who investigates sites in depositional contexts.

Contents:

1. Archaeological Sediments in Cultural Environments / Julie K. Stein 1

2. Archaeological Sediments in Rockshelters and Caves / William R. Farrand 29

3. Archaeological Sediments in Dryland Alluvial Environments / Gary Huckleberry 67

4. Archaeological Sediments in Humid Alluvial Environments / Bruce G. Gladfelter 93

5. Archaeological Sediments in Lake Margin Environments / Craig S. Feibel 127

6. Archaeological Sediments in Coastal Environments / Lisa E. Wells 149

7. Archaeological Sediments in Springs and Wetlands / Gail M. Ashley 183.

Notes:

Updated ed. of: Archaeological sediments in context. c1985.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0874807034

0874806917

OCLC:

47254134