Geoarchaeology : the human environment approach / Carlos Cordova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cordova, Carlos E., 1965- author.

Series:

Politics & international relations (Bloomsbury Publishing)

Politics & international relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeological geology.

Politics & International Relations.

Local Subjects:

Politics & International Relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"Geoarchaeology is traditionally concerned with reconstructing the environmental aspects of past societies using the methods of the earth sciences. The field has been steadily enriched by scholars from a diversity of disciplines and much has happened as the importance of global perspectives on environmental change has emerged. Carlos Cordova, provides a fully up-to-date account of geoarchaeology that reflects the important changes that have occurred in the past four decades. Innovative features include: the development of the human-ecological approach and the impact of technology on this approach; how the diversity of disciplines contributes to archaeological questions; frontiers of archaeology in the deep past, particularly the Anthropocene; the geoarchaeology of the contemporary past; the emerging field of ethno-geoarchaeology; the role of geoarchaeology in global environmental crises and climate change."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Nature of Geoarchaeology

Chapter 2. Theoretical and Methodological Foundations

Chapter 3. The Geoarchaeological Record : Concept and Contexts

Chapter 4. The Geoarchaeological Record : Interpretation Issues

Chapter 5. The Human-Environmental Tradition in Geoarchaeology

Chapter 6. Geoarchaeology and Human Evolution

Chapter 7. Geoarchaeology and the Anthropization of the World

Chapter 8. The Geoarchaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Landscapes

Chapter 9. The Record of Early Agriculture and its Diffusion

Chapter 10. Complex Societal-Environmental Systems and the Collapse Phenomenon

Chapter 11. The Geoarchaeology of Rural Landscapes

Chapter 12. Human-Environmental Approaches to Soils and Paleosols

Chapter 13. The Geoarchaeology of Natural Disasters

Chapter 14. Environmental Crises in the Geoarchaeological Record

Chapter 15. Native and Colonial Landscapes

Chapter 16. Geoarchaeology and Modern Traditional Societies

Chapter 17. Geoarchaeology of the Contemporary Past

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350986596

1350986593

9781838608590

1838608591

9781838608606

1838608605

OCLC:

1114450988