Alluvial geoarchaeology : floodplain archaeology and environmental change /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997
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| Series: | Cambridge manuals in archaeology
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction and the example of Nile
- Part I. Principles
- 1. Floodplain evolution
- 2. Alluvial environments over time
- 3. Interpreting Floodplain sediments and soils
- 4. Floodplain ecology, archaeology and archaeozoology
- Part II. Application
- 5. Artifacts from Floodplains and rivers
- 6. The rise and fall of forested Floodplain in North-West Europe
- 7. Buried sites
- 8. Managed Floodplains
- 9. The Cultural archaeology of Floodplains
- 10. People, Floodplains and environmental change
- Appendices. Notation
- 1. River flow and sediment Transport
- 2. Flood frequency analysis
- 3. Documentary evidence and wetland perceptions
- References
- Subject Index
- Index of Rivers and Sites