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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Environmental Archaeology"”.
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The Villa and Agricultural Economy of Late Roman Sicily: An Archaeobotanical Perspective
… this evidence is part of the diverse field of environmental archaeology, the analysis of which unfortunately which has not been carried out at many sites, leaving an incomplete record of important features of the ancient environment.
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Interpreting Prehistoric Patterns: Site Catchment Analysis in the Upper Trinity River Basin of North Central Texas
… into the process of synthesizing regional archaeology and interpreting corresponding spatial patterning. GIS software provides a means to integrate digital environmental and archaeological data into an effective tool. Resultant environmental archaeology maps facilitate interpretive …
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Food and Fortitude: A Story of Life Within Presidio San Saba as told through Zooarchaeological Analysis
Presidio San Sabá was the largest military outpost in the Texas region during the mideighteenth century. This research project is a continuation of Arlene Fradkin, and Tamra Walters’ previous faunal analysis conducted on a portion of the site’s assemblage. This inquiry will focus on comparing the …
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The Small Animals of Maasai Settlements: Ethnoarchaeological Investigations of the Commensalism Model
… Africa. Methods from ecology, ethnography, and archaeology were used to document the impact of Maasai settlements on associated communities of small rodents and shrews: micromammals), to measure the intensity of human occupation in settlements, and to relate settlement intensity to …
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Assessing carbonized archaeological cooking residues : evaluation of maize phytolith taphonomy and density through experimental residue analysis
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Anthropology, 2010
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Interactions between human industry and woodland ecology in the South Pennines
… topography. Nevertheless, they exhibit a rich archaeology of management from the medieval period onwards. Field survey of case study sites was combined with charcoal analysis from excavated burning platforms, palynology of soil cores, tree ring analysis and ecological survey. This was set …
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Ecological niche models of early rice agriculture in prehistoric Japan
… to reflect the underlying variation in the environmental and climatic settings of the islands. However, this assumption has gone largely untested, mostly due to a focus within Japanese archaeological research on the local and micro scales. This thesis aims to explain the observed variation …
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Human-rainforest interactions in Island Southeast Asia: Holocene vegetation history in Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo) and Palawan (western Philippines)
This research employs a modern analogue approach to examine relationships between pollen, vegetation change, and land use in the tropical environments of Island Southeast Asia over the past ~5000 years. Interpretation of fossil pollen data relies upon uniformitarian principles. Few modern pollen- …
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Ανάπλαση του φυσικού περιβάλλοντος της παράκτιας ζώνης της ελληνιστικής Αλεξάνδρειας (Αιγύπτου), με τη χρήση θαλάσσιων γεωφυσικών μεθόδων και γεωγραφικών συστημάτων πληροφοριών
Η παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή μελετά την παράκτια ζώνη, της Αλεξάνδρειας (Αιγύπτου) με σκοπό: (1) την ανάπλαση του παράκτιου παλαιοπεριβάλλοντος στο οποίο αναπτύχθηκε η Ελληνιστική Αλεξάνδρεια και πώς αυτό επηρέασε στην ίδρυση και στην εξέλιξη της πόλης, (2) τον εντοπισμό ναυαγίων, καταβυθισμένων …