Sediments In Archaeological Context
University of Utah Press, 2001
Paper: 978-0-87480-691-5 | Cloth: 978-0-87480-703-5
Library of Congress Classification QE696.S44 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 551.30402493
Paper: 978-0-87480-691-5 | Cloth: 978-0-87480-703-5
Library of Congress Classification QE696.S44 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 551.30402493
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Almost every artifact in archaeological analysis originates in or on the ground. While there are elaborate methods for extracting and analyzing artifacts, treatment of the matrix within which they are located is often unsophisticated and does not include systematic analysis.
Sediments in Archaeological Context concerns the analysis of this matrix and the potential use of sediments to answer archaeological questions. Describing sediments and sampling them in appropriate ways do not replace the study of artifacts, but they can provide additional, useful information regarding a site complex, its physical environment, and the relations of artifacts to each other.
Each chapter in the volume considers sediments within a specific context. Topics include sediments found in a variety of environments: cultural environments, rockshelter and cave environments, dryland alluvial environments, humid alluvial environments, lake environments, shoreline environments, and spring and wetland environments.
Sediments in Archaeological Context is intended for every archaeologist who investigates sites in depositional contexts.
Sediments in Archaeological Context concerns the analysis of this matrix and the potential use of sediments to answer archaeological questions. Describing sediments and sampling them in appropriate ways do not replace the study of artifacts, but they can provide additional, useful information regarding a site complex, its physical environment, and the relations of artifacts to each other.
Each chapter in the volume considers sediments within a specific context. Topics include sediments found in a variety of environments: cultural environments, rockshelter and cave environments, dryland alluvial environments, humid alluvial environments, lake environments, shoreline environments, and spring and wetland environments.
Sediments in Archaeological Context is intended for every archaeologist who investigates sites in depositional contexts.
See other books on: Antiquities, Prehistoric | Excavations (Archaeology) | Geology, Stratigraphic | Quaternary | Tertiary
See other titles from University of Utah Press
