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| Other authors / contributors: | Gilbert, Allan S., 1948- editor.
Goldberg, Paul, editor.
Holliday, Vance T., editor.
Mandel, Rolfe D., 1952- editor.
Sternberg, Robert Saul, editor.
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| ISBN: | 9781402044090
1402044097
9789400748286
9400748280
9789400748286
9789400748279
9400748272
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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.0The 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Encyclopedia of geoarchaeology. Dordrecht : Springer Dordrecht 2015 9789400748279
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-1-4020-4409-0
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