Richard I. Macphail, Paul Goldberg

Applied Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book uniquely focuses on all aspects of archaeological soil micromorphology, based upon the authors' joint sixty years of worldwide studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1368g
• ISBN-13: 9781107011380
• ISBN-10: 1107011388
• Artikelnr.: 49564690

Autorenporträt

Richard I. Macphail is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He is coauthor of Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology (with Marie-Agnhs Courty and Paul Goldberg, Cambridge, 1990) and Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology (with Paul Goldberg, 2005), and the editor of 'Site Formation Processes in Archaeology: Soil and Sediment Micromorphology' (in Quaternary International, 2012). Macphail has initiated workshops (1990-2016) and training (2006-16) in archaeological soil micromorphology (within the International Union of Soil Science), was associate editor for Geoarchaeology (1990-2014), Professor Invité at Tours in 2004, and gained the Rip Rapp Award from the Geological Society of America in 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Background Approach and Methods: 1. Applied principles from geology and soil science
2. Complementary analyses
3. Systematic soil micromorphology description
Part II. Soils and Sediments: 4. Soils and burial (horizon types and effects of burial in the Temperate and Boreal regions)
5. Soil-sediments
6. Inundated freshwater and coastal marine sites
Part III. Archaeological Materials: 7. Archaeological materials and deposits
Part IV. Features and Activities in the Landscape: 8. First records of human activity
9. Clearance and cultivation
10. Occupation surfaces and use of space
11. Settlement morphology
12. Site transformation
13. Final remarks.