"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

Cordova, Carlos

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

I.B. Tauris; Bloomsbury

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Bloomsbury UK

Politics & international relations (Bloomsbury Publishing), London, 2019

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

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Oct 30, 2018

FR, 2018

1, 2018

sources:
9781788313018

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

"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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