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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"geoarchaeology"”.
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Geoarchaeology in semi-arid landscapes
… not only present during these wetter periods. Geoarchaeology has been used to reconstruct the palaeoenvironmental conditions that humans had to navigate and adapt to, as well as to identify site formation processes that impacted the behavioural evidence left behind. This thesis combines field …
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Quaternary landscape evolution, pedology, and geoarchaeology in central Texas.
Central Texas provides a unique environment as a climate ecotone for studying processes of river incision, deposition, and soil formation. This is the first study in central Texas focused on alluvial floodplain and terrace formation of the Brazos and Bosque rivers. Additionally, Buttermilk Creek …
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Geoarchaeology of the Danilo Bitinj and Pokrovnik Sites, Dalmatia, Croatia
… of archaeological remains. This site-specific geoarchaeology provides a dataset critical to the archaeological interpretation of and behavioral model-building for this momentous cultural change. The dissertation's main objectives are characterizing dominant site materials: soils and ceramics) …
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Geoarchaeology of the Orontes River Floodplain Surrounding Tell Qarqur, Syria
<p>This project combines geoarchaeological soil description and GIS analysis of archaeological site distribution to investigate the history of marsh formation in the northern Ghab Basin, located within the Orontes River Valley of western Syria. Tell Qarqur, the archaeological site around which this …
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Houses and households in early Icelandic society: geoarchaeology and the interpretation of social space
This thesis contributes new archaeological evidence to the debate about how early Icelandic society was constituted and organised, and how it developed over the course of its first 200 year,s. It examines Viking Age residential architecture in Iceland at new levels of detail and with new methods, …
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The Utility of Microfossils in Geoarchaeology: A Case Study from Lake Simcoe, Ontario and Methodological Considerations
Eutrophication has been an issue in Lake Simcoe since the 1970s, stressing aquatic wildlife, notably economically-important cold water fish. Non-pollen palynomorphs (NPP) are more sensitive proxies of water quality than sedimentary phosphorus, and have a higher fossilization potential than …
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Water and Early City Development in Southeast China: Geoarchaeology Case Study of the Ancient Liangzhu City
Water has been cited as a key factor in influencing the emergence of complex society and the development of early cities throughout the world prehistory. Lianghzu, one of the earliest ‘state’ societies in East Asia dated from 3300 to 2300 BC, is characterised by its elaborate jade artefacts and …
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Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and geoarchaeology of the Cuatro Cienegas Basin, NE Mexico, from the late Pleistocene to the present
With over 200 pools, lakes and rivers supporting over 70 species of endemic flora and fauna, the Cuatro Cienegas Basin, Coahuila, NE Mexico is an extremely important and extensively studied area in terms of conservation. The palaeoenvironment, however, is relatively understudied with only two …
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Targeting early man sites in the western United States: An assessment of the Manix type section, central Mojave Desert, California
Geoarchaeology -- Pre-Clovis archaeology -- Site search strategies.
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Targeting early man sites in the western United States: An assessment of the Manix type section, central Mojave Desert, California
Geoarchaeology -- Pre-Clovis archaeology -- Site search strategies.
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Stratigraphy and Site Formation at the Sanders Site (45 KT 315), Kittitas County, Washinton
… investigation of what would now be called site geoarchaeology, but this work was not reported in detail. In this thesis, I synthesize existing records on site stratigraphy and completed new field characterization and laboratory analyses to build a geoarchaeological summary for the site. The site …
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Combining forensic anthropological and geological approaches to investigate the preservation of human remains in British archaeological populations and their effects on palaeodemography
… combining techniques from forensic anthropology, geoarchaeology and geochemistry, greater insights into the effects of taphonomic and cultural influences on the preservation of human skeletal remains are found. This has enabled the questions into what influences the ability to produce a …
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The steps of kings: terraced landscapes in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, México
… full coverage settlement pattern survey, geoarchaeology, and remote sensing/ARCGIS, which documented patterns of settlements, confirmed the presence of terraces, and the general landscape development of the former island. This thesis documents and analyzes, for the first time, agricultural …
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A Geoarchaeological Investigation of Storage and Surplus at Tel Tsaf, Israel
The Chalcolithic period of the southern Levant spans from c. 5800 - 3600 cal BC. Traditional hallmarks of this period include caches of copper items, non-domestic shrine sites and large off site cemeteries or burial caves. However, these features date to the later portion of the period (Late …
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Geology of the Late Pleistocene artifact-bearing Wasiriya Beds at the Nyamita locality, Rusinga Island, Kenya.
This study investigated the sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Late Pleistocene Wasiriya Beds at the Nyamita locality on Rusinga Island, Kenya in northeastern Lake Victoria. Little is yet known about this region during the Pleistocene. This study provides geological context for archaeological …
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Speleothem Palaeoclimatology in the Maya Lowlands of Northwestern Yucatán, Mexico
The sociopolitical and demographic changes in the Maya civilisation during the Terminal Classic Period (800 – 1000 CE) are increasingly thought to coincide with climate change, specifically drought. Two challenges facing interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between climate and …
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Testing Terraces: Managing and Sustaining the Agrarian Environment in the Maltese Archipelago
Agricultural terracing, the intentional creation of stepped fields on a hillslope, is ubiquitous in a variety of arid, semi-arid and wet regions in the world. Superficially, it is observable as a significant investment in wide scale landscape alteration for agriculture. However, it represents more …
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Late quaternary Alaskan paleoclimate : geoarchaeological insights into the Pleistocene-Holocene transition.
Eastern Beringia is a region which has undergone dramatic changes since the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, environmentally and climatically. These changing conditions likely contributed to the changes in human behavior observed in the earliest human inhabitants who migrated into the region …
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The role of hydrological changes in the demise of Iron Age state societies in southern Africa: an integrative study of Mapungubwe, South Africa
In southern Africa, Mapungubwe (AD 1200–1300) is regarded as the earliest precolonial state system that emerged by exploiting floodplain ecologies for extensive agriculture and trade for immense surplus wealth, significant pillars that helped transforming kinships into bureaucratic, class-based …
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