Geoarchaeology: the human-environmental approach

Table of content

1.The Nature of Geoarchaeology
2.Theoretical and Methodological Foundations
3.The Geoarchaeological Record: Concept and Contexts
4.The Geoarchaeological Record: Interpretation Issues
5.The Human-Environmental Tradition in Geoarchaeology
7.Geoarchaeology and the Anthropization of the World
8.The Geoarchaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Landscapes
9.The Record of Early Agriculture and its Diffusion
10.Complex Societal-Environmental Systems and the Collapse Phenomenon
11.The Geoarchaeology of Rural Landscapes
12.Human-Environmental Approaches to Soils and Paleosols
13.The Geoarchaeology of Natural Disasters
14.Environmental Crises in the Geoarchaeological Record
15.Native and Colonial Landscapes
16.Geoarchaeology and Modern Traditional Societies
17.Geoarchaeology of the Contemporary Past

Geoarchaeology is traditionally concerned with reconstructing the environmental aspects of past societies using the methods of the earth sciences. The field has been steadily enriched by scholars from a diversity of disciplines and much has happened as the importance of global perspectives on environmental change has emerged. Carlos Cordova, provides a fully up-to-date account of geoarchaeology that reflects the important changes that have occurred in the past four decades. Innovative features include: the development of the human-ecological approach and the impact of technology on this approach; how the diversity of disciplines contributes to archaeological questions; frontiers of archaeology in the deep past, particularly the Anthropocene; the geoarchaeology of the contemporary past; the emerging field of ethno-geoarchaeology; the role of geoarchaeology in global environmental crises and climate change.

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