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Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series
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Geoarchaeology is the archaeological subfield that focuses on
archaeological information retrieval and problem solving utilizing
the methods of geological investigation. Archaeological recovery
and analysis are already geoarchaeological in the most fundamental
sense because buried remains are contained within and removed from
an essentially geological context. Yet geoarchaeological research
goes beyond this simple relationship and attempts to build
collaborative links between specialists in archaeology and the
earth sciences to produce new knowledge about past human behavior
using the technical information and methods of the geosciences. The
principal goals of geoarchaeology lie in understanding the
relationships between humans and their environment. These goals
include (1) how cultures adjust to their ecosystem through time,
(2) what earth science factors were related to the evolutionary
emergence of humankind, and (3) which methodological tools
involving analysis of sediments and landforms, documentation and
explanation of change in buried materials, and measurement of time
will allow access to new aspects of the past. This encyclopedia
defines terms, introduces problems, describes techniques, and
discusses theory and strategy, all in a format designed to make
specialized details accessible to the public as well as
practitioners. It covers subjects in environmental archaeology,
dating, materials analysis, and paleoecology, all of which
represent different sources of specialist knowledge that must be
shared in order to reconstruct, analyze, and explain the record of
the human past. It will not specifically cover sites,
civilizations, and ancient cultures, etc., that are better
described in other encyclopedias of world archaeology. The Editor
Allan S. Gilbert is Professor of Anthropology at Fordham University
in the Bronx, New York. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers University,
and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. were earned at Columbia
University. His areas of research interest include the Near East
(late prehistory and early historic periods) as well as the Middle
Atlantic region of the U.S. (historical archaeology). His
specializations are in archaeozoology of the Near East and
geoarchaeology, especially mineralogy and compositional analysis of
pottery and building materials. Publications have covered a range
of subjects, including ancient pastoralism, faunal quantification,
skeletal microanatomy, brick geochemistry, and two co-edited
volumes on the marine geology and geoarchaeology of the Black Sea
basin.
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