Geoarchaeology in Action: Studies in Soil Micromorphology and Landscape Evolution

by French,Charles

• ISBN13: 9780415273107
• ISBN10: 0415273102
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-12-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The book sets out the essential features of geoarchaeological practice and geomorphological processes, and is deliberately aimed at the archaeologist as practitioner.

Author Biography

Charles French is Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Science in the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
List of tables	xvi
Acknowledgements	xvii
Preface	xix
PART 1 Some essential elements of geoarchaeology: method and practice	1	(80)
Issues and aims in geoarchaeology	3	(7)
Processes of archaeological preservation	10	(10)
Geomorphological processes	20	(15)
Soils, sediments and buried soils	35	(24)
Lowland and upland landscape systems	59	(22)
PART 2 Geoarchaeology in action: case studies and syntheses	81	(167)
The lower Welland valley, Cambridgeshire, England	83	(14)
The Fengate shore, lower Nene valley and the Flag Fen basin, Cambridgeshire, England	97	(16)
The lower Great Ouse valley, Cambridgeshire, England	113	(20)
The development of the Cambridgeshire fenlands of eastern England	133	(10)
The dyke survey in the northwestern Cambridgeshire fenlands	143	(16)
Monitoring desiccation, erosion and preservation of sites and landscapes in the East Anglian wetlands and elsewhere	159	(13)
Wyke Down and the upper Allen valley, Cranborne Chase, Dorset, England	172	(26)
The lower Aguas basin, southeastern Spain	198	(12)
The Troina river valley, north-central Sicily	210	(14)
The Dhamar region, Central Highlands, Yemen	224	(11)
The environs of Tell Brak, northeastern Syria	235	(5)
The steppe at Botai, northeastern Kazakhstan	240	(8)
Conclusions	248	(4)
Glossary	252	(5)
Bibliography	257	(24)
Index	281