Alluvial Geoarchaeology - Floodplain Archaeology and Environmental Change

Klappentext A comprehensive technical manual aimed at archaeologists, physical geographers, geologists and environmental scientists. Zusammenfassung This comprehensive technical manual is designed to give archaeologists the necessary background knowledge in environmental science required to excavate and analyse archaeological sites by rivers and on floodplains. Examples are drawn from Britain! Europe! North America and Australasia. For archaeologists! physical geographers! geologists and environmental scientists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction and the example of the Nile; Part I. Principles: 1. Floodplain evolution; 2. Alluvial environments over time; 3. Interpreting floodplain sediments and soils; 4. Floodplain ecology, archaeobotany and archaeozoology; Part II. Application: 5. Artifacts from floodplains and rivers; 6. The rise and fall of forested floodplains in North West Europe; 7. Buried sites; 8. Managed floodplains; 9. The cultural archaeology of floodplains; 10. People, floodplains and environmental change; Appendices: 1. River flow and sediment transport; 2. Flood frequency analysis; 3. Documentary evidence and wetland perceptions; References; Subject index.

Product details

• Authors: A G Brown, A. G. Brown, A. G. (University of Exeter) Brown, Tony Brown
• Assisted by: Graeme Barker (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.1997
• EAN: 9780521568203
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56820-3
• No. of pages: 404
• Series: Cambridge Manuals in Archaeolo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity