[19] Inspired geoarchaeologies: past landscapes and social change
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Inspired geoarchaeologies: past landscapes and social change
Essays in honour of Professor Charles A. I. French
Edited by Federica Sulas, Helen Lewis & Manuel Arroyo-Kalin
Geoarchaeological research captures dimensions of the past at an unprecedented level of detail and multiple spatial and temporal scales. The record of the past held by soils and sediments is an archive for past environments, climate change, resource use, settlement lifeways, and societal development and resilience over time. When the McDonald Institute was established at Cambridge, geoarchaeology was one of the priority fields for a new research and teaching environment. An opportunity to develop the legacy of Charles McBurney was bestowed upon Charles French, whose ‘geoarchaeology in action’ approach has had an enormous impact in advancing knowledge, principles and practices across academic, teaching and professional sectors. Many journeys that began at Cambridge have since proliferated into dozens of inspired geoarchaeologies worldwide. This volume presents research and reflection from across the globe by colleagues in tribute to Charly, under whose leadership the Charles McBurney Laboratory became a beacon of geoarchaeology.
- Complete volume - Inspired geoarchaeologies: past landscapes and social change
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Practising geoarchaeology: on land, underwater, online
- Chapter 2 - Why do we see what we see where we see it? Geomorphological controls on archaeological narratives across space and time
- Chapter 3 - Landscapes of scale or scales of landscape: patterns of land use and landscape
- Chapter 4 - Geoarchaeology in fluvial landscapes
- Chapter 5 - Challenges of geoarchaeology in wetland environments
- Chapter 6 - Soil pollen analysis: a waning science?
- Chapter 7 - Making thin sections for geoarchaeology
- Chapter 8 - Modelling, mimicking and fighting waters: Lower River Great Ouse and Ouse Washlands investigations
- Chapter 9 - Speculations on farming development during the early Iron Age of southern Norway (500 bc–ad 550), focusing on the Dobbeltspor Dilling Project
- Chapter 10 - A geoarchaeological agenda for Tyrrhenian central Italy
- Chapter 11 - Landscape sequences and Iron Age settlement in southern Africa: managing soils and water in the Greater Mapungubwe landscape
- Chapter 12 - Tracking down the house: the contribution of micro-geo-ethnoarchaeology to the study of degraded houses in arid, temperate and humid tropical environments
- Chapter 13 - Soil micromorphological observations of construction techniques at Százhalombatta- Földvár Bronze Age tell settlement, Hungary
- Chapter 14 - Cursus complexity: results of geophysical survey on the Dorset Cursus, Cranborne Chase, Dorset
- Chapter 15 - Three wettings and a funeral: monument construction, land use history, and preservation at Skelhøj and Tobøl I round barrows, Denmark
- References
- Appendix to Chapter 11
- Appendix to Chapter 15
Recent Submissions
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Making thin sections for geoarchaeology
(McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2022-12-19)Geoarchaeological research captures dimensions of the past at an unprecedented level of detail and multiple spatial and temporal scales. The record of the past held by soils and sediments is an archive for past environments, ... -
Soil pollen analysis: a waning science?
(McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2022-12-19)Geoarchaeological research captures dimensions of the past at an unprecedented level of detail and multiple spatial and temporal scales. The record of the past held by soils and sediments is an archive for past environments, ... -
Challenges of geoarchaeology in wetland environments
(McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2022-12-19)Geoarchaeological research captures dimensions of the past at an unprecedented level of detail and multiple spatial and temporal scales. The record of the past held by soils and sediments is an archive for past environments, ... -
Geoarchaeology in fluvial landscapes
(McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2022-12-19)Geoarchaeological research captures dimensions of the past at an unprecedented level of detail and multiple spatial and temporal scales. The record of the past held by soils and sediments is an archive for past environments, ...
