"Geoarchaeology is traditionally concerned with reconstructing the environmental aspects of past societies using the methods of the earth sciences. The field has been steadily enriched by scholars from a diversity of disciplines and much has happened as the importance of global perspectives on environmental change has emerged. Carlos Cordova, provides a fully up-to-date account of geoarchaeology that reflects the important changes that have occurred in the past four decades. Innovative features include: the development of the human-ecological approach and the impact of technology on this approach; how the diversity of disciplines contributes to archaeological questions; frontiers of archaeology in the deep past, particularly the Anthropocene; the geoarchaeology of the contemporary past; the emerging field of ethno-geoarchaeology; the role of geoarchaeology in global environmental crises and climate change."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Geoarchaeology: The Human Environment Approach

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Cordova, Carlos

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Bloomsbury Academic

Environmental history and global change series ; 8, London, 2018

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Oct 30, 2018

FR, 2018

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Source title: Geoarchaeology: The Human-Environmental Approach (Environmental History and Global Change)

Cover 1
Author Biography 2
Editorial 4
Title Page 6
Copyright 7
Contents 8
Figures and Tables 12
Acknowledgements 22
Introduction 24
1. The Nature of Geoarchaeology 28
The nature of geoarchaeology and its practitioners 28
The three major traditions in geoarchaeology 31
The field and its status in the scientific realm 34
Practice, training, and the rapidly evolving subfields 39
2. Theoretical and Methodological Foundations 45
Introduction 45
Theory in geoarchaeology 45
The geoarchaeological method 48
Geoarchaeological models of inquiry and interpretation 51
Reconstructing and reproducing the past 55
The explanation of a complex and chaotic world 59
Concluding remarks 60
3. The Geoarchaeological Record: Concept and Contexts 61
An epistemological background 61
An all-inclusive geoarchaeological record 63
The contextual levels: Site, setting, landscape, and environment 67
The interpretation of the record 74
4. The Geoarchaeological Record: Interpretation Issues 79
Visualizing time, causality, and context 79
Causality in natural and cultural transform processes 84
Time-transgressive phenomena in the record 85
Archaeological visibility, invisibility, and absence 87
The virtues of off-site geoarchaeology 89
Legacy effects, relicts, and palimpsests 90
Modern analogs, reference analogs, and modern references 93
Sampling and interpretation of the record 94
Correlation and its issues 95
5. The Human-Environmental Tradition in Geoarchaeology 98
Introduction 98
The ecological paradigm 98
The ecological context in geoarchaeology 100
Geoarchaeology since Archaeology as Human Ecology 104
Global climate change and the rise of the Anthropocene 105
Perspectives on the human and non-human worlds 107
Geoarchaeology and environmental history 109
6. Geoarchaeology and Human Evolution 111
Introduction 111
Geology, climate changes, and biogeography 114
Geoarchaeology in paleoanthropological research 117
Contexts and issues 118
Case 6.1: Context and scale in the Olduvai hominin record 124
7. Geoarchaeology and the Anthropization of the World 127
Introduction 127
The proto-anthropic period as a “gray zone” 127
Geoarchaeology and the pre- and proto-anthropic periods 131
Case 7.1: Between paleoontological and archaeological sites: Geoarchaeological issues in Pre-Clovis mammoth localities 133
Case 7.2: The geoarchaeology of early Australian human environments at Lake Mungo 140
8. The Geoarchaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Landscapes 145
Introduction 145
Hunter-gatherer societies and their environmental contexts 145
Geoarchaeological approaches to hunter-gatherer landscapes 148
Case 8.1: Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherers of the Eastern Levant: Sites, settings, and landscapes in a rapidly changing environment 149
Case 8.2: The geoarchaeology of the Archaic period in the Great Plains of North America 155
9. The Record of Early Agriculture and its Diffusion 160
Introduction 160
Agricultural beginnings: Contextual models 161
Neolithic impacts on the environment at different scales 162
Geoarchaeological contexts and research strategies 163
Case 9.1: Geoarchaeology of two Near Eastern Neolithic settlements: Ain Ghazal and Ain Abu-Nukhaila, and the first agricultural environmental crisis 164
Case 9.2: The arrival of pastoralism around Lake Ngami: Records from sites and lake sediments 172
10. Complex Societal-Environmental Systems and the Collapse Phenomenon 175
Introduction 175
Complex societal-environmental systems 175
The collapse phenomenon 176
Research contexts 180
Case 10.1: Ancient sustainability, risks, management, and centralization in large river basins: Three examples 181
Case 10.2: The Classic Maya collapse and the degradation of soils in the Maya lowlands: Geoarchaeological models of landscape transformation 185
11. The Geoarchaeology of Rural Landscapes 191
Introduction 191
The rural landscape: Concepts and environmental approaches 191
Geoarchaeological strategies in ancient rural contexts 194
Case 11.1: The Ancient Greek rural landscape in southwestern Crimea 195
Case 11.2: Xaltocan: The geoarchaeology of a complex lacustrine society before Tenochtitlan 201
12. Human-Environmental Approaches to Soils and Paleosols 206
Introduction 206
Thematic approaches to paleosols 207
Natural and anthropic spectra in soil formation 210
Case 12.1: Pastureland, cropland, and other past human activities in the geoarchaeological record below Brussels: A look into urban dark earths 213
Case 12.2: The understated human influence on North American prairie soils: The concept of bison paleopastures 216
13. The Geoarchaeology of Natural Disasters 222
Natural disasters in the human-environmental context 222
Geoarchaeological approaches to natural disasters 223
Contextual levels and issues of interpretation 225
Case 13.1: The Xitle Volcano catastrophe and its impact on the Preclassic and Classic environmental contexts in the Basin of Mexico 226
Case 13.2: The geoarchaeological record of Hurricane Katrina’s disaster in New Orleans 233
14. Environmental Crises in the Geoarchaeological Record 238
Introduction 238
Environmental crises and their relation to societal collapse 238
What do environmental crises look like in the geoarchaeological record? 241
Case 14.1: The Old World environmental crisis at the end of the Third Millennium BC as seen in the degradation of Levantine flood plains 242
Case 14.2: The Dust Bowl in the (future) geoarchaeological record of the Great Plains of North America 246
15. Native and Colonial Landscapes 251
Introduction 251
Human-environmental interactions in the context of colonial encounters 252
Environmental response and native and non-native legacies in the landscape 253
Case 15.1: The Spanish colonial land system on an Aztec landscape: An example from the Basin of Mexico 254
Case 15.2: The transformation of the South African landscapes through colonial encounters: A proposal for researching the geoarchaeological record 257
16. Geoarchaeology and Modern Traditional Societies 262
Introduction 262
Definition of concepts and research fields 262
Ethnogeoarchaeology: Definition and scope 264
Case 16.1: Modern and ancient irrigation systems in southern Mexico 268
17. Geoarchaeology of the Contemporary Past 275
Introduction 275
The contemporary past defined 275
Human-environmental relations as continuous processes 276
Towards a geoarchaeology of the contemporary past 277
Case 17.1: The legacies of the Soviet period in the geoarchaeological record: The Crimean case 279
References 286
Index 314

"Geoarchaeology is traditionally concerned with reconstructing the environmental aspects of past societies using the methods of the earth sciences. Once a purely technical subject, the field has been steadily enriched by scholars from a diversity of disciplines and by the introduction of the human-environmental approach pioneered by Karl Butzer in the late 1970s. Yet much has happened in the intervening decades, particularly with the growing importance of global perspectives on environmental change. In his latest book, Carlos Cordova provides a fully up-to-date account of geoarchaeology that reflects the important changes that have occurred in the past four decades. The book is unique in featuring a review of the methodological and epistemological aspects of the discipline and among its innovative features are accounts of: the development of the human-ecological approach and the impact of technology on this approach; the diversity of disciplines and how they contribute to archaeological questions; the frontiers of archaeology in the deep past, particularly regarding the Anthropocene; the geoarchaeology of the contemporary past; the emerging field of ethno-geoarchaeology; the role of geoarchaeology in global environmental crises, climate change, and the future of our relationship with the environment."--Book jacket

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