The archaeology of human-environment interactions : strategies for investigating anthropogenic landscapes, dynamic environments, and climate change in the human past

Weitere Verfasser: Contreras, Daniel A.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Umfang/Format: 295 pages.
Schriftenreihe: Routledge studies in archaeology 21
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Online Zugang: Online available (Ebook Central)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Correlation is Not Enough : Building Better Arguments in the Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions / Daniel A. Contreras
  • [1] Case Studies
  • Convergence and Divergence as Problems of Explanation In Land Use Histories : Two Mexican Examples / Aleksander Borejsza and Arthur A. Joyce
  • [2] Alluvial geoarchaeology
  • From the river to the fields : the contribution of micromorphology to the study of hydro-agrosystems in semi-arid environments (Phoenix, Arizona) / Louise Purdue
  • [3] Micromorphology and agrosystems
  • Regional Climate, Local Paleoenvironment, and Early Cultivation in the middle Wadi el-Hasa, Jordan / Daniel A. Contreras and Cheryl Makarewicz
  • [4] Paleolandscape Reconstruction in Archaeology
  • Human-Environment Interactions through the Epipalaeolithic of Eastern Jordan / Matthew D. Jones, Lisa Maher, Tobias Richter, Danielle Macdonald, and Louise Martin
  • ^[5] Integrating archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data through on-site and off-site stratigraphy
  • Living on the Edge : Pre-Columbian Habitation of the Desert Periphery of the Chicama Valley, Peru / Ari Caramanica and Michele Koons
  • [7] Landscape Paleobotany
  • A fine-grained analysis of terra preta formation: understanding causality through microartifactual and chemical indices in the Central Amazon / Anna T. Browne Ribeiro
  • [8] Pedology for Archaeology
  • External Impacts on Internal Dynamics : Effects of Paleoclimatic and Demographic Variability on Acorn Exploitation along the Central California Coast / Brian F. Codding and Terry L. Jones
  • [9] Spatially Explicit Behavioral Ecology
  • Describing Microenvironments Used for Nomadic Pastoralist Habitation Sites : Explanatory Tools for Surfaces, Places, and Networks / Joshua Wright
  • [10] Simple Suitability Rasters as Tools for Archaeological Discovery
  • ^Soil Geochemistry and the Role of Nutrient Values in Understanding Archaic State Formation : A Case Study from Kaupo, Maui, Hawaiian Islands / Alexander Baer
  • [11] Soil Geochemical Analyses in Archaeology
  • Discussion
  • Epilogue / Frances Hayashida.