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MICHAEL. WATERS is the principal author of this work and served as
the head of the research team. He is a professor of anthropology
and geography at Texas A&M University and is Associate Director
of the Center for the Study of the First Americans What Readers Are
Saying: "It is well written, engaging, and original . . . will fill
an important gap in our knowledge of World War Two on the homefront
. . . Waters' book is the only book to examine the history of a
single camp, and that in Texas, complete with interviews with
former prisoners, guards, and local townspeople. Even more
important, Waters' book is also an archaeological examination of
the campsite, based on the detailed labor of dozens of young
archaeological students over a period of some four years. Waters
details their findings, to reveal the daily experiences of the more
than 4,000 German soldiers who spent the war year in Texas. Prof.
Waters and his team have unearthed a treasure trove of information
which will be of interest to historians, archaeologists, history
buffs, and specialists of Texas history, alike."--Arnold Krammer,
author, Nazi Prisoners of War in America and Hitler's Last Soldier
in America. "It is well written, engaging, and original . . . will
fill an important gap in our knowledge of World War Two on the
homefront . . . Waters' book is the only book to examine the
history of a single camp, and that in Texas, complete with
interviews with former prisoners, guards, and local townspeople.
Even more important, Waters' book is also an archaeological
examination of the campsite, based on the detailed labor of dozens
of young archaeological students over a period of some four years.
Waters details their findings, to reveal the daily experiences of
the more than 4,000 German soldiers who spent the war year in
Texas. Prof. Waters and his team have unearthed a treasure trove of
information which will be of interest to historians,
archaeologists, history buffs, and specialists of Texas history,
alike." --Arnold Krammer, author, Nazi Prisoners of War in America
and Hitler
Geoarchaeological studies can significantly enhance interpretations
of human prehistory by allowing archaeologists to decipher from
sediments and soils the effects of earth processes on the evidence
of human activity. While a number of previous books have provided
broad geographic and temporal treatments of geoarchaeology, this
new volume presents a single author's view intended for North
American archaeologists. Waters deals with those aspects of
geoarchaeology--stratigraphy, site formation processes, and
landscape reconstruction--most fundamental to archaeology, and he
focuses on the late Quaternary of North America, permitting
in-depth discussions of the concepts directly applicable to that
research. Assuming no prior geologic knowledge on the part of the
reader, Waters provides a background in fundamental geological
processes and the basic tools of geoarchaeology. He then proceeds
to relate specific physical processes, microenvironments, deposits,
and landforms associated with riverine, desert, lake, glacial,
cave, coastal, and other environments to archaeological site
formation, location, and context. This practical volume illustrates
the contributions of geoarchaeological investigations and
demonstrates the need to make such studies an integral part of
archaeological research. The text is enhanced by more than a
hundred line drawings and photographs. CONTENTS
1. Research Objectives of Geoarchaeology
2. Geoarchaeological Foundations: The Archaeological Site Matrix:
Sediments and Soils / Stratigraphy / The Geoarchaeological
Interpretation of Sediments, Soils, and Stratigraphy
3. Alluvial Environments: Streamflow / Sediment Erosion, Transport,
and Deposition / Alluvial Environments: Rivers, Arroyos, Terraces,
and Fans / Alluvial Landscapes Evolution and the Archaeological
Record / Alluvial Landscape Reconstruction
4. Eolian Environments: Sediment Erosion, Transport, and Deposition
/ Sand Dunes / Loess and Dust / Stone Pavements / Eolian Erosion /
Volcanic Ash (Tephra)
5. Springs, Lakes, Rockshelters, and Other Terrestrial
Environments: Springs / Lakes / Slopes / Glaciers / Rockshelters
and Caves
6. Coastal Environments: Coastal Processes / Late Quaternary Sea
Level Changes / Coastal Environments / Coastal Landscape Evolution
and the Archaeological Record / Coastal Landscape
Reconstruction
7. The Postburial Disturbance af Archaeological Site Contexts:
Cryoturbation / Argilliturbation / Graviturbation / Deformation /
Other Physical Disturbances / Floralturbation /
Faunalturbation
8. Geoarchaeological Research
Appendix A: Geoarchaeological Studies Illustrating the Effects of
Fluvial Landscape Evolution on the Archaeological Record
Appendix B: Geoarchaeological Studies Illustrating Site-Specific
Synchronic and Diachronic Alluvial Landscape Reconstructions
Appendix C: Geoarchaeological Studies Illustrating Regional
Synchronic and Diachronic Alluvial Landscape Reconstructions
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Paleoamerican Odyssey (Paperback)
Kelly E. Graf, Caroline V Ketron, Michael R. Waters
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As research continues on the earliest migration of modern humans
into North and South America, the current state of knowledge about
these first Americans is continually evolving.
Especially with recent advances in human genomic studies, both of
living populations and ancient skeletal remains, new light is being
shed in the ongoing quest toward understanding the full complexity
and timing of prehistoric migration patterns.
"Paleoamerican Odyssey" collects thirty-one studies presented at
the 2013 conference by the same name, hosted in Santa Fe, New
Mexico, by the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas
A&M University.
Providing an up-to-date view of the current state of knowledge in
paleoamerican studies, the research gathered in this volume,
presented by leaders in the field, focuses especially on late
Pleistocene Northeast Asia, Beringia, and North and South America,
as well as dispersal routes, molecular genetics, and Clovis and
pre-Clovis archaeology.
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