Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology

2. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-031-57738-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 1600 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 279 mm

Reihe: Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series

This 2nd edition of the encyclopedia keeps up with the latest advances in the ever-expanding and rapidly evolving field of geoarchaeology. New subjects have been added and previous ones updated to stay apace with innovations since the 1st edition. It describes terms, introduces concepts and problems, explains and illustrates techniques, and discusses theory and strategy in the use of earth science applications in archaeology. The breadth of the discipline is systematically covered, including environmental archaeology, dating, materials analysis, and paleoecology, as well as syntheses of important archaeological sites where geoarchaeology has played a prominent role in describing, analyzing, and interpreting the record of the human past. The text is clearly written so that technical topics become accessible to a wide spectrum of readers, from the general public and university students to researchers and practitioners. It will not specifically cover general sites, civilizations, and ancient cultures, etc., that are better described in other encyclopedias of world archaeology, but it does include entries on sites and past events that are better known as a result of substantial geoarchaeological contributions.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gilbert, Allan S.

Goldberg, Paul

Mandel, Rolfe D.

Aldeias, Vera

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Historische Geologie, Geochronologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie: Theorie und Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

40Ar/39Ar and K–Ar Geochronology.- Akrotiri Aetokremnos, Cyprus.- Analysis of Carbon, Nitrogen, pH, Phosphorus, and Carbonates as Tools in Geoarchaeological Research.- Anthrosols.- Archaeological Stratigraphy.- Archaeomineralogy.- Arctic Geoarchaeology: Site Formation Processes.- Artifact Conservation.- Big Eddy Site, Missouri.- Burned-Rock Features.- Cactus Hill, Virginia.- Canals and Aqueducts in the Ancient World.- Casper Site, Wyoming.- Climatostratigraphy.- Coastal Settings.- Data Visualization.- Dolní Vestonice, Pavlov, and Milovice.- Dust Cave, Alabama.- Electron Probe Microanalyzer.- Ethnogeoarchaeology.- Fluorine Dating.- Geoarchaeology, History.- Glacial Settings.- Glass.- Great Plains Geoarchaeology.- Harris Matrices and the Stratigraphic Record.- Koster Site, Illinois.- Lithics.- Living Surfaces.- Loessic Paleolithic, Tajikistan.- Metals.- Minnesota Messenia Expedition.- Oxygen Isotopes.- Paleodemography: Methods and Recent Advances.- Paleoshores, Lakes, and Sea.- Poverty Point Site, Louisiana.- Santorini.- Shell Middens.- Site Formation Processes.- Site Preservation.- Soil Geomorphology.- Soil Stratigraphy.- Stable Carbon Isotopes in Soils.- Strontium Isotopes.- Susceptibility.- Troy.- X-Ray Diffraction.- X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry in Geoarchaeology.- York.- Alluvial Settings.- Amino Acid Racemization.- Archaeology of the Continental Shelf: Submerged Cultural Landscapes.- Archaeomagnetic Dating.- Archaeoseismology.- Atapuerca.- Beringia, Geoarchaeology.- Blombos Cave.- Boxgrove.- Built Environment.- Cave Settings.- Ceramics.- Cerén, El Salvador.- Chemical Alteration.- Chronostratigraphy.- Colluvial Settings.- Cosmogenic Isotopic Dating.- Dendrochronology.- Dmanisi.- Dumps and Landfill.- Eastern Sahara: Combined Prehistoric Expedition.- El Mirón Cave.- Electrical Resistivity and Electromagnetism.- Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) in Archaeological Context.- Eolian Settings: Loess.- Eolian Settings: Sand.- Experimental Geoarchaeology.- Field Geochemistry.- Field Survey.- Fission Track Dating.- Forensic Geoarchaeology.- Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR).- Gas Chromatography.- Geochemical Sourcing.- Geographical Information Systems (GIS).- Geomorphology.- Geophysics.- Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov.- Grain Size Analysis.- Grimaldi Caves.- Ground-Penetrating Radar.- Harappa.- Harbors and Ports, Ancient.- Haua Fteah.- Hearths and Combustion Features.- Hohle Fels.- House Pits and Grubenhäuser.- Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry.- Inundated Freshwater Settings.- Isernia.- Isochron Dating.- Java, Indonesia.- Kebara Cave, Israel.- Kennewick Man.- Kostenki, Russia.- La Micoque.- Lake Mungo and Willandra.- Landscape Archaeology.- Lead Isotopes.- Liang Bua, Indonesia.- Luminescence Dating of Pottery and Bricks.- Magnetometry for Archaeology.- Mass Movement.- Microstratigraphy.- Monte Circeo Caves.- Monte Verde Site Complex, Chile.- Mount Carmel.- Neutron Activation Analysis.- Niah Cave.- Olduvai.- Optical Dating.- Organic Residues.- Paleodiet.- Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction.- Paleomagnetism.- Paleopathology.- Paludal Settings: Wetland Geoarchaeology.- Pastoral Sites.- Petroglyphs.- Petrography.- Pigments.- Pinnacle Point.- Pompeii and Herculaneum.- Pre-Clovis Geoarchaeology.- Privies and Latrines.- Radiocarbon Dating.- Raman.- Remote Sensing in Archaeology.- Rockshelter Settings.- Scanning Electron Microscopy.- Sedimentology.- Shipwreck Geoarchaeology.- Soil Micromorphology.- Soil Survey.- Soils.- Soils, Agricultural.- Southwestern US Geoarchaeology.- Speleothems.- Spring Settings.- Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai.- Stonehenge.- Stratigraphy.- Swanscombe.- Tells.- Tephrochronology.- Tombs.- Trampling.- Tsunamis.- U-Series Dating.- Volcanoes and People.- Wells and Reservoirs.- Zhoukoudian, China.- Çatalhöyük.- Ötzi, the Tyrolean Iceman.- ‘Ubeidiya.- ’Ain Ghazal.- Ais Giorkas, Cyprus.- Ancient DNA in Sediments (sedaDNA).- Aubrey Clovis Site, Texas.- Awazu Site, Japan.- Azraq Basin, Jordan.- Bacho Kiro Cave, Dryanovo, Bulgaria.- Biomarkers.- Bluefish Caves.- Bokol Dora, Ethiopia.- Bone as a Building Material.- Bricks, Fired.- Building Materials.- Clary Ranch Locality, Nebraska.- Clovis Site, Blackwater Draw Locality 1, New Mexico.- Concrete.- Cooper’s Ferry Site, Idaho.- Coprolites.- Debra L. Friedkin Site, Texas.- Denisova Cave, Russia: Microstratigraphy.- Destruction Layers, Near East/Southern Levant.- Drimolen Palaeocave Geoarchaeology, South Africa.- Earth/Mud and Adobe as a Building Material.- El Fin del Mundo, Sonora, Mexico.- English Camp, Washington.- Folsom Site, New Mexico.- Franchthi Cave, Greece.- Gault Site, Texas.- Geophysical Stratigraphy.- Hayonim Cave, Israel.- Hebior and Schaefer Mammoth Kill Sites, Wisconsin.- Horner Site, Wyoming.- Industrial Sites and Geoarchaeology.- Klasies River, South Africa.- Koobi Fora, Kenya.- Kuk Swamp, Papua New Guinea.- Lacustrine Settings.- Lagar Velho, Lapedo, Portugal.- Lapa do Santo, Brazil.- Lime Creek Sites, Nebraska.- Lindenmeier Site, Colorado.- Lubbock Lake, Texas.- Malta.- Maya Lowlands: Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Environmental Change.- Micro XRF.- MicroCT Scan.- Mining Geoarchaeology.- Mortars and Plasters.- Mounds and Other Earthworks.- Page-Ladson Site, Florida.- Paisley Caves, Oregon.- Pech de l'Azé I, II, and IV, France.- Petra: Nabataean Hydraulic Engineering.- Planetary Geoarchaeology.- Quarry Geoarchaeology.- Richard Beene Site, Texas.- Rock Paintings.- Rodgers Shelter, Missouri.- Roofing Tiles.- Schoeningen.- Shanidar Cave, Iraq.- Sibudu, South Africa.- Snow as a Building Material.- Sod/Turf as a Building Material.- Southeast Asian Caves.- Stone as a Building Material.- Tabun Cave, Israel.- Tectonics and Archaeology.- Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria.- Thatch.- Tropical Geoarchaeology.- Urban Environments in the Middle Ages.- Urban Environments of Antiquity.- Watson Brake Site, Louisiana.- Willendorf, Austria.- Wilson-Leonard Site, Texas.- Wood as a Building Material.- X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry in Geoarchaeology, Portable.

Über Autor(innen)

About 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. in anthropology 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 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.

About the Associate Editors:

Paul Goldberg is Professor Emeritus at Boston University. He is currently Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong, and Affiliated Professor of Geoarchaeology and Senior Researcher at the Center for Archaeological Science at the University of Tübingen. He obtained his B.A. in geology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geology from The University of Michigan. His research interests focus on the application of micromorphology to the study of landscapes, soils, archaeological deposits, and generally site formation processes at archaeological sites, especially prehistoric caves. Most of his research is in the Old World, including France, Spain, Israel, Germany, China, Siberia, and Indonesia.

Rolfe D. Mandel is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, Director of the Kansas Geological Survey, and Senior Scientist and Executive Director of the Odyssey Geoarchaeology Research Program at the Kansas Geological Survey in Lawrence, Kansas. He holds a B.A. from the University of Texasat Austin, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. From 1999-2004, he served as Editor-in-Chief of Geoarchaeology: An International Journal. His research spans a wide range of topics including geoarchaeology, paleopedology, late-Quaternary landscape evolution, and paleoenvironmental reconstruction. He has spent most of career working with archaeologists in the midcontinent of North America and the eastern Mediterranean, and during the past 15 years he has focused on the use of geoscientific methods to search for the earliest evidence of humans in the Central Great Plains and Midwest.

Vera Aldeias is an associated researcher and group leader at the Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behavior (ICArEHB) at the University of Algarve in Portugal. She holds a B.A. in archaeology from University of Lisbon, and a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Pennsylvania. From 2013-2017 she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Human Evolution in the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-Eva, Germany). Her research interests focus on Old World archaeology investigating site formation processes and human behavior using microscopic and experimental data on anthropogenic and geogenic deposits. She has conducted fieldwork in contexts ranging from Late Pliocene to Early Holocene in Portugal, France, Bulgaria, Israel, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Mozambique.