Download or read book Archaeological Assemblages Under Tillage and the Interpretation of Site Structure written by Dawn R. Bringelson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mound Centers and Seed Security written by Natalie G. Mueller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Middle Woodland sites in the eastern United States, excavations have uncovered naturalistic art worked on exotic materials from points as distant Wyoming, Ontario, and the Gulf Coast, revealing a network of ritual exchange referred to as the Hopewell phenomenon. Simultaneously, Middle Woodland societies developed the earliest agricultural system in eastern North American using now-extinct native cultivars. Mound Centers and Seed Security: A Comparative Analysis of Botanical Assemblages from Middle Woodland Sites in the Lower Illinois Valley integrates an interpretation of these two historical trends. Unlike most journal articles on related subjects, the volume includes a lengthy review of literature on both Hopewell studies and Middle Woodland agriculture, making it a useful resource for researchers starting out in either field. Synthesizing both original research and research reported in archaeological “grey literature”, Mound Centers and Seed Security: A Comparative Analysis of Botanical Assemblages from Middle Woodland Sites in the Lower Illinois Valley is a valuable tool for researchers and teachers alike.

Download or read book Magnitude Direction and Interpretation written by Ryan Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Extracting Meaning from Ploughsoil Assemblages written by Riccardo Francovich and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessments of the Past, Strategies for the Future ( S. Alcock ). Methodology: Methods of Collection, Recording and Quantification ( D. Mattingly ); Cultural Depositional Processes andPost-depossitional Problems ( J. Taylor ); Ceramics and the Site ( Vincent Gaffney ); What Are we Counting For? ( Elizabeth Fentress ); Dating, Quantifying and Utilizing Pottery from Surface Survey ( Martin Millett ); Towards an Analysis of Incomplete Distributions ( Nicola Terrenato ); Quando i Campi Hanno Pochi Significati da Estarre ( Franco Cambi ); Prospection et Chronologie: de la quantification du temps au modèle de peuplement ( Frédéric Trément ); Discussion ( Martin Millett ). Ceramic Studies in Mediterranean Survey: Prehistoric Ceramic Studies ( Caroline Malone & Simon Stoddart ); Roman Ceramic Studies in Mediterranean Survey ( John W. Hayes ); Early Medieval and Medieval Ceramic Studies ( Helen Patterson ). Case Studies: Surface Survey Analysis of the Copper Age Site of La Pijotilla (Spain) ( Victor Hurtado ); On-site Surface Distributions and Geophysica: the site of Rodik-Adjovscina ( Bozidar Slapsak, Branko Music & Verena Perko ); Il Caso dell'Itlia Medio-tirrenica ( Andrea Zifferaro ); Ceramic Chronology and Roman Rural Settlement in the Lower Guadalquivir Valley during the Augustan Period ( Simon Keay ); Terracotta and its Territory ( Franco Cambi ); The Adriatic Islands Project ( Vincent Gaffney, Branco Kirigin, John W. Hayes & Peter Leach ); Céramologie et Histoire du Peuplement dans la Cité de Mines ( Claude Raynaud ); Insediamento e Circolazione Ceramica fra V e X Secolo nella Toscana Centro-meridionale ( Riccardo Francovich & Marco Valenti ); Reconstructing the Classical Landscape with Figures: some interpretive explorations in North-West Keos ( Todd Whitelaw ); Demographic Trends: the Contribution of Regional Survey Data ( John Bintliff & Kostas Sbonias ); Conclusion ( Susan E. Alcock, Franco Cambi, Simon Keay & Claude Raynaud ).

Download or read book Handbook of Archaeological Sciences written by D. R. Brothwell and published by . This book was released on 2001-08-17 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D.R. Brothwell and A.M. Pollard have got together to create the first large scale review of the many sciences which contribute to modern archaeology for over 30 years. The Handbook of Archaeological Sciences is intended to bring together a substantial overview of the sciences in archaeology in one complete volume. The book is organised under eight broad headings: dating, quaternary palaeoenvironments, human palaeobiology, developments in biomolecular archaeology, resource exploitation, archaeological prospection, conservation science in the archaeological context and statistical and computer applications. The contributors, who are all well-known in their own areas of expertise, bring together in each chapter the basic science and the relevance of this science to the overall goal of archaeology - understanding humans in the past. This book is an invaluable source of reference for those interested in archaeology, anthropology, quaternary studies, geography, palaeoecology, computing, biology, chemistry and physics, those involved in commercial and local authority field archaeology units, museums and archaeological organisations.

Download or read book Paleoamerican Odyssey written by Kelly E. Graf and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 1087 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Fisher Site written by Peter L. Storck and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Classic Period Mixtequilla Veracruz Mexico written by Barbara L. Stark and published by Institute for Mesoamerican Studies. This book was released on 2001 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This archaeological site report presents new in sights on an important but poorly-studied Mesoamerican culture-the Classic period of the Mexican Gulf Coast. Stark discusses her excavations at several sites in the Mixtequilla region, describes the deposits and artifacts encountered, and provides interpretations of the sites and their significance within a wider context. Her analysis of the ephemeral remains of perishable houses is innovative and contains one of the most sophisticated treatments of site formation processes yet carried out in Latin America. Particularly important is the identification of some of the earliest spindle whorls in Mesoamerica, leading to new views of the importance of cotton textiles in the changing economies of the Late Preclassic and Classic periods. Superb artifact illustrations, detailed descriptions, and an ample use of data tables, make this a valuable reference work. Mesoamericanists will find much of interest in this book, as will readers interested in tropical lowland settlement patterns, household archaeology, and site formation processes.

Download or read book Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany written by John M. Marston and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, is poised at the intersection of the study of the past and concerns of the present, including agricultural decision making, biodiversity, and global environmental change, and has much to offer to archaeology, anthropology, and the interdisciplinary study of human relationships with the natural world. Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany demonstrates those connections and highlights the increasing relevance of the study of past human-plant interactions for understanding the present and future. A diverse and highly regarded group of scholars reference a broad array of literature from around the world as they cover their areas of expertise in the practice and theory of paleoethnobotany—starch grain analysis, stable isotope analysis, ancient DNA, digital data management, and ecological and postprocessual theory. The only comprehensive edited volume focusing on method and theory to appear in the last twenty-five years, Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany addresses the new areas of inquiry that have become central to contemporary archaeological debates, as well as the current state of theoretical, methodological, and empirical work in paleoethnobotany.

Download or read book Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society written by Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.

Download or read book Antiquity written by Manuel Vaquero, A.J. Howard & M.G. Macklin, Steven L. Kuhn, Mary C. Stiner & Erksin Gulec, Axel Pollex, Marek kohn & Steven mithen, Gill Hey, Alex Bayliss & Angela Boyle, Junko Habu & Clare Fawcett, Ian C. Glover, Li Liu, Yangjin Pak, Hyung Il Pai, Fumiko Ikawa-Smith, Barbara Bender, Clark L. Erickson, Fisher, Pollard & Frederick, Tina Thurston, William Gustav Gartner, Dunning, Scarborough, Valdez, Jr. , Luzzadder-Beach, Beach & Jones, Gary M. Feinman, Simon Stoddart & Ezra Zubrow and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology written by Cristiano Nicosia and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology goes beyond a mere review of current literature and features the most up to date contributions from numerous scientists working in the field. The book represents a groundbreaking and comprehensive resource covering the plethora of applications of micromorphology in archaeology. Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology offers researchers, students and professionals a systematic tool for the interpretation of thin sections of archaeological contexts. This important resource is also designed to help stimulate the use of micromorphology in archaeology outside Europe, where the technique is less frequently employed. Moreover, the authors hope to strengthen the proper application of soil micromorphology in archaeology, by illustrating its possibilities and referring in several cases to more specialized publications (for instance in the field of plant remains, pottery and phytoliths). Written for anyone interested in the topic, this important text offers: Contributions from most of the world's leading authorities on soil micromorphology A series of chapters on the major topics selected among the most recurrent in literature about archaeological soil micromorphology Systematic descriptions of all important micromorphological features Special analytical tools employed on thin sections, such as SEM/EDS, image analysis, fluorescence microscopy, mass spectrometry, among others Numerous cross-references 400 illustrated full-colour plates The resource provides the most current and essential information for archaeologists, geoarchaeologists, soil scientists and sedimentologists. Comprehensive in scope, Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology offers professionals and students a much-needed tool for the interpretation of thin sections of archaeological contexts.

Download or read book Theory in the Pacific the Pacific in Theory written by Tim Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory in the Pacific, the Pacific in Theory explores the role of theory in Pacific archaeology and its interplay with archaeological theory worldwide. The contributors assess how the practice of archaeology in Pacific contexts has led to particular types of theoretical enquiry and interest, and, more broadly, how the Pacific is conceptualised in the archaeological imagination. Long seen as a laboratory environment for the testing and refinement of social theory, the Pacific islands occupy a central place in global theoretical discourse. This volume highlights this role through an exploration of how Pacific models and exemplars have shaped, and continue to shape, approaches to the archaeological past. The authors evaluate key theoretical perspectives and explore current and future directions in Pacific archaeology. In doing so, attention is paid to the influence of Pacific people and environments in motivating and shaping theory-building. Theory in the Pacific, the Pacific in Theory makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how theory develops attuned to the affordances and needs of specific contexts, and how those contexts promote reformulation and development of theory elsewhere. It will be fascinating to scholars and archaeologists interested in the Pacific region, as well as students of wider archaeological theory.

Download or read book Neolithic Farming in Central Europe written by Amy Bogaard and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates competing models of early crop husbandry in Central Europe using available archaeobotanical evidence.

Download or read book Modelling the Effects of Tillage Processes on Artefact Distribution in the Ploughzone written by William A. Boismier and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effect of ploughing on stratigraphy and on artefacts spread over the surface is explored in this much-needed book. Agricultural engineering literature and the analysis of three experimental datasets have been used to produce a computer simulation of the effect of ploughing on the distribution of portable objects (not on architectural remains). How much of the original patterning on archaeological sites has been destroyed, and how much survives? Can tillage-induced changes in surface patterns be 'cancelled out' by identifying their effects? This closely argued book suggests answers.