书目名称 | Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology |
编辑 | Allan S. Gilbert |
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概述 | Renders the complex interdisciplinary science of geoarchaeology in simple, understandable terms.Presents a comprehensive compendium that ensures fast access to information.Supports specialists, practi |
丛书名称 | Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series |
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描述 | .Geoarchaeology 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 ofsediments 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, descri |
出版日期 | Reference work 2017 |
关键词 | archaeometry; dating techniques; environmental archaeology; geoarchaeology; human paleoecology; materials |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4409-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-4409-0Series ISSN 1388-4360 Series E-ISSN 1871-756X |
issn_series | 1388-4360 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017 |