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Archaeological Geophysics for Ephemeral Human Occupations: Focusing on the Small-Scale combines technological advances in near-surface geophysics with recent archaeological scholarship and underlying archaeological premises to provide a practical manual for guiding archaeo-geophysical research design. By proposing the amelioration of communication gaps between traditional and geophysical archaeologists, this book will foment dialogue and participate in bringing about new ways of thinking anthropologically about archaeological geophysics, especially in relation to prehistoric open-air ephemeral sites. Offering a way to begin a dialogue between archaeology and geophysics, Archaeological Geophysics for Ephemeral Human Occupations is an important reference for practicing professionals, instructors, and students in geophysics and anthropology/archaeology, as well as geology.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Archaeological Geophysics Biases
Chapter 2. Recognizing and Defeating Biases
Chapter 3. Seeing the Forest but Missing the Trees
Chapter 4. Material Signature of Human Behavior: Framing a Hunter-Gatherer AGP Agenda
Chapter 5. Human Material Signatures
Chapter 6. Pattern Recognition and Preliminary Identification
Chapter 7. Simulation Sandbox
Chapter 8. Material Signature of Seasonality at Verberie
Chapter 9. Just for Students
Chapter 10. Questions to Guide Framing Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 11. Conclusion: We Versus Me
