Description: Product InformationGeoarchaeology is the archaeological subfield that focuses on archaeological information retrieval and problem solving utilizing the methods of geological investigation. Archaeological recovery and analysis are already geoarchaeological in the most fundamental sense because buried remains are contained within and removed from an essentially geological context. Yet geoarchaeological research goes beyond this simple relationship and attempts to build collaborative links between specialists in archaeology and the earth sciences to produce new knowledge about past human behavior using the technical information and methods of the geosciences. The principal goals of geoarchaeology lie in understanding the relationships between humans and their environment. These goals include (1) how cultures adjust to their ecosystem through time, (2) what earth science factors were related to the evolutionary emergence of humankind, and (3) which methodological tools involving analysis of sediments and landforms, documentation and explanation of change in buried materials, and measurement of time will allow access to new aspects of the past. This encyclopedia defines terms, introduces problems, describes techniques, and discusses theory and strategy, all in a format designed to make specialized details accessible to the public as well as practitioners. It covers subjects in environmental archaeology, dating, materials analysis, and paleoecology, all of which represent different sources of specialist knowledge that must be shared in order to reconstruct, analyze, and explain the record of the human past. It will not specifically cover sites, civilizations, and ancient cultures, etc., that are better described in other encyclopedias of world archaeology. The Editor Allan S. Gilbert is Professor of Anthropology at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers University, and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. were earned at Columbia University. His areas of research interest include the Near East (late prehistory and early historic periods) as well as the Middle Atlantic region of the U.S. (historical archaeology). His specializations are in archaeozoology of the Near East and geoarchaeology, especially mineralogy and compositional analysis of pottery and building materials. Publications have covered a range of subjects, including ancient pastoralism, faunal quantification, skeletal microanatomy, brick geochemistry, and two co-edited volumes on the marine geology and geoarchaeology of the Black Sea basin.Product IdentifiersPublisherSpringerISBN-139789400748279eBay Product ID (ePID)225761106Product Key FeaturesAuthorAllan S. GilbertPublication NameEncyclopedia of GeoarchaeologyFormatHardcoverLanguageEnglishSubjectArchaeology, Geology, AnthropologyPublication Year2016TypeTextbookNumber of Pages1046 PagesDimensionsItem Height279mmItem Width210mmAdditional Product FeaturesSeries TitleEncyclopedia of Earth Sciences SeriesCountry/Region of ManufactureNetherlandsEditorAllan S. GilbertItem description from the seller
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Item Height: 279mm
Item Width: 210mm
Author: Allan S. Gilbert
Publication Name: Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Springer
Subject: Archaeology, Geology, Anthropology
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Number of Pages: 1046 Pages
