Micromorphological Analysis Of Activity Areas Sealed By Vesuvius Avellino Eruption

Author : Tiziana Matarazzo
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784912123

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Micromorphological Analysis of Activity Areas Sealed by Vesuvius’ Avellino Eruption by Tiziana Matarazzo Pdf

Buried under a meter of volcanic ash deposited by the eruption of Vesuvius, the remarkable preservation of this Early Bronze Age village in Southern Italy is unmatched in Europe. Here, micromorphology is used to identify the type and range of human activities, the function of features and buildings, and the intensity of site occupation.

Author : Tiziana Matarazzo
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Afragola (Italy)
ISBN : 1784912115

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Micromorphological Analysis of Activity Areas Sealed by Vesuvius' Avellino Eruption by Tiziana Matarazzo Pdf

Buried under a meter of volcanic ash deposited by the eruption of Vesuvius, the remarkable preservation of this Early Bronze Age village in Southern Italy is unmatched in Europe. Here, micromorphology is used to identify the type and range of human activities, the function of features and buildings, and the intensity of site occupation.

Author : Panagiotis Karkanas,Paul Goldberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119016403

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Reconstructing Archaeological Sites by Panagiotis Karkanas,Paul Goldberg Pdf

A guide to the systematic understanding of the geoarchaeological matrix Reconstructing Archaeological Sites offers an important text that puts the focus on basic theoretical and practical aspects of depositional processes in an archaeological site. It contains an in-depth discussion on the role of stratigraphy that helps determine how deposits are organised in time and space. The authors — two experts in the field — include the information needed to help recognise depositional systems, processes and stratigraphic units that aid in the interpreting the stratigraphy and deposits of a site in the field. The book is filled with practical tools, numerous illustrative examples, drawings and photos as well as compelling descriptions that help visualise depositional processes and clarify how these build the stratigraphy of a site. Based on the authors’ years of experience, the book offers a holistic approach to the study of archaeological deposits that spans the broad fundamental aspects to the smallest details. This important guide: Offers information and principles for interpreting natural and anthropogenic sediments and physical processes in sites Provides a framework for reconstructing the history of a deposit and the site Outlines the fundamental principles of site formation processes Explores common misconceptions about what constitutes a deposit Presents a different approach for investigating archaeological stratigraphy based on sedimentary principles Written for archaeologists and geoarchaeologists at all levels of expertise as well as senior level researchers, Reconstructing Archaeological Sites offers a guide to the theory and practice of how stratigraphy is produced and how deposits can be organised in time and space.

Author : E. J. Peltenburg
Publisher : Levant Supplementary
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1785701436

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Tell Jerablus Tahtani, Syria, I by E. J. Peltenburg Pdf

Results from excavations of Jerablus Tahtani, a multi-period tell site beside Carchemish in Syria. This the first major report on the site deals with stratified mortuary evidence found at a Bronze Age fort that was built over the destroyed remains of an early 3rd millennium village..

Author : Richard I. Macphail,Paul Goldberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107011380

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Applied Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology by Richard I. Macphail,Paul Goldberg Pdf

This book uniquely focuses on all aspects of archaeological soil micromorphology, based upon the authors' joint sixty years of worldwide studies.

Author : Andreas Pastoors,Tilman Lenssen-Erz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9783030604066

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Reading Prehistoric Human Tracks by Andreas Pastoors,Tilman Lenssen-Erz Pdf

This Open Access book explains that after long periods of prehistoric research in which the importance of the archaeological as well as the natural context of rock art has been constantly underestimated, research has now begun to take this context into focus for documentation, analysis, interpretation and understanding. Human footprints are prominent among the long-time under-researched features of the context in caves with rock art. In order to compensate for this neglect an innovative research program has been established several years ago that focuses on the merging of indigenous knowledge and western archaeological science for the benefit of both sides. The book gathers first the methodological diversity in the analysis of human tracks. Here major representatives of anthropological, statistical and traditional approaches feature the multi-layered methods available for the analysis of human tracks. Second it compiles case studies from around the globe of prehistoric human tracks. For the first time, the most important sites which have been found worldwide are published in a single publication. The third focus of this book is on firsthand experiences of researchers with indigenous tracking experts from around the globe, expounding on how archaeological sciencecan benefit from the ancestral knowledge. This book will be of interest to professional archaeologists, graduate students, ecologists, cultural anthropologists and laypeople, especially those focussing on hunting-gathering and pastoralist communities and who appreciate indigenous knowledge.--

Author : Paul Goldberg,Richard I. Macphail
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118688199

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Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology by Paul Goldberg,Richard I. Macphail Pdf

Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology provides an invaluable overview of geoarchaeology and how it can be used effectively in the study of archaeological sites and contexts. Taking a pragmatic and functional approach, this book presents: a fundamental, broad-based perspective of the essentials of modern geoarchaeology in order to demonstrate the breadth of the approaches and the depth of the problems that it can tackle. the rapid advances made in the area in recent years, but also gives the reader a firm grasp of conventional approaches. covers traditional topics with the emphasis on landscapes, as well as anthropogenic site formation processes and their investigation. provides guidelines for the presentation of field and laboratory methods and the reporting of geoarchaeological results. essential reading for archaeology undergraduate and graduate students, practicing archaeologists and geoscientists who need to understand and apply geoarchaeological methodologies. Artwork from the book is available to instructors online at: www.blackwellpublishing.com/goldberg “This is one of the best textbooks that I have read in years. I enjoyed reviewing it, and found it well-written and thorough in its coverage of the traditional earth science aspects of geoarchaeology. The non-traditional aspects were intriguing and equally thorough... I predict that this book will become the textbook of choice for geoarchaeology classes for several years.” Geomorphology 101 (2008) 740–743

Author : David Warburton
Publisher : Aarhus University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Aegean Sea Region
ISBN : WISC:89108213596

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Time's Up! by David Warburton Pdf

Papers by natural scientists, archaeologists, egyptologists and classicists discussing the newest evidence of the Santorini eruption. The papers fall into two sections. I: Evidence, geology, archaeology & chronology; II: Debate: typology, chronology, methodology. Contributors include: Walter L. Friedrich & Jan Heinemeier, Philip P. Betancourt, Max Bichler, Thomas M. Brogan, Peter M. Fischer, Karen Polinger Foster, Hermann Hunger, Felix Hoflmayer, Rolf Krauss, Bernd Kromer, Alexander R. McBirney, Floyd W. McCoy, J. Alexander MacGillivray, Sturt W. Manning, Robert Merrillees, Raimund Muscheler, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Nikolaos Sigalas, Chrysa Sofianou, Jeffrey S. Soles, Georg Steinhauser, Johannes H. Sterba, Annette Hen Sensen, Peter Warren, Malcolm H. Wiener.

Author : Martin Bell
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789254037

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Making One's Way in the World by Martin Bell Pdf

The book draws on the evidence of landscape archaeology, palaeoenvironmental studies, ethnohistory and animal tracking to address the neglected topic of how we identify and interpret past patterns of movement in the landscape. It challenges the pessimism of previous generations which regarded prehistoric routes such as hollow ways as generally undatable. The premise is that archaeologists tend to focus on ‘sites’ while neglecting the patterns of habitual movement that made them part of living landscapes. Evidence of past movement is considered in a multi-scalar way from the individual footprint to the long distance path including the traces created in vegetation by animal and human movement. It is argued that routes may be perpetuated over long timescales creating landscape structures which influence the activities of subsequent generations. In other instances radical changes of axes of communication and landscape structures provide evidence of upheaval and social change. Palaeoenvironmental and ethnohistorical evidence from the American North West coast sets the scene with evidence for the effects of burning, animal movement, faeces deposition and transplantation which can create readable routes along which are favoured resources. Evidence from European hunter-gatherer sites hints at similar practices of niche construction on a range of spatial scales. On a local scale, footprints help to establish axes of movement, the locations of lost settlements and activity areas. Wood trackways likewise provide evidence of favoured patterns of movement and past settlement location. Among early farming communities alignments of burial mounds, enclosure entrances and other monuments indicate axes of communication. From the middle Bronze Age in Europe there is more clearly defined evidence of trackways flanked by ditches and fields. Landscape scale survey and excavation enables the dating of trackways using spatial relationships with dated features and many examples indicate long-term continuity of routeways. Where fields flank routeways a range of methods, including scientific approaches, provide dates. Prehistorians have often assumed that Ridgeways provided the main axes of early movement but there is little evidence for their early origins and rather better evidence for early routes crossing topography and providing connections between different environmental zones. The book concludes with a case study of the Weald of South East England which demonstrates that some axes of cross topographic movement used as droveways, and generally considered as early medieval, can be shown to be of prehistoric origin. One reason that dryland routes have proved difficult to recognise is that insufficient attention has been paid to the parts played by riverine and maritime longer distance communication. It is argued that understanding the origins of the paths we use today contributes to appreciation of the distinctive qualities of landscapes. Appreciation will help to bring about effective strategies for conservation of mutual benefit to people and wildlife by maintaining and enhancing corridors of connectivity between different landscape zones including fragmented nature reserves and valued places. In these ways an understanding of past routeways can contribute to sustainable landscapes, communities and quality of life

Author : B. De Vivo,R.J. Bodnar
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080536107

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Melt Inclusions in Volcanic Systems by B. De Vivo,R.J. Bodnar Pdf

Melt inclusions provide a unique record of the physical and chemical processes operating in active magma chambers associated with volcanic systems. This book includes a summary of modern techniques used to study and interpret melt inclusions in volcanic rocks, as well as descriptive studies of specific volcanoes. These various studies document the enormous potential for melt inclusions to provide a window into the dynamics of active magma chambers. 'Melt Inclusions in Volcanic Systems' gives the most up-to-date summary of research on the application of melt inclusions in studies of active and fossil volcanic systems, as well as suggestions for future research in this area.

Author : Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
Publisher : L'Erma di Bretschneider
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015024966403

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The Sarno Bath Complex by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow Pdf

Author : Marc Waelkens
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9061865298

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Sagalassos I by Marc Waelkens Pdf

Sagalassos, once the metropolis of the Western Taurus range (Pisidia, Turkey), was only thoroughly surveyed in 1884 and 1885 by an Austrian team directed by K. Lanckoronski. In 1986-1989 this work was resumed by a British-Belgian team co-directed by Dr. Stephen Mitchell (University College of Swansea) and by Prof. Dr. Marc Waelkens (Catholic University of Leuven). In 1990 Sagalassos became a full scale Belgian project and a leading center for interdisciplinary archaeological and archaeometrical research. Due to its altitude, the site is one of the best preserved towns from classical antiquity, with a rich architectural and sculptural tradition dating from the second century BC to the sixth century AD. From early Imperial times until the early Byzantine period a complete range of coarse and red slip wares was produced locally. Excavations are concentrated on the upper and lower agoras to document the political and commercial life in the town and also in the area where a late Hellenistic fountain house, which still functions to date, and a Roman library were discovered. Major efforts are undertaken to restore the excavated monuments in their old glory. Several disciplines integrate the town again within its ancient environment and document the central role which Sagalassos played in the area.

Author : Marie-Agnhs Courty,Paul Goldberg,Richard Macphail
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052132419X

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Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology by Marie-Agnhs Courty,Paul Goldberg,Richard Macphail Pdf

Bodenkunde - Mikromorphologie - Geologie.

Author : Kazuhisa Miyoshi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1420027069

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Solid Lubrication Fundamentals and Applications by Kazuhisa Miyoshi Pdf

Solid Lubrication Fundamentals and Applications description of the adhesion, friction, abrasion, and wear behavior of solid film lubricants and related tribological materials, including diamond and diamond-like solid films. The book details the properties of solid surfaces, clean surfaces, and contaminated surfaces as well as discussing the structu

Author : Panagiotis Karkanas,Paul Goldberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119016434

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Reconstructing Archaeological Sites by Panagiotis Karkanas,Paul Goldberg Pdf

A guide to the systematic understanding of the geoarchaeological matrix Reconstructing Archaeological Sites offers an important text that puts the focus on basic theoretical and practical aspects of depositional processes in an archaeological site. It contains an in-depth discussion on the role of stratigraphy that helps determine how deposits are organised in time and space. The authors — two experts in the field — include the information needed to help recognise depositional systems, processes and stratigraphic units that aid in the interpreting the stratigraphy and deposits of a site in the field. The book is filled with practical tools, numerous illustrative examples, drawings and photos as well as compelling descriptions that help visualise depositional processes and clarify how these build the stratigraphy of a site. Based on the authors’ years of experience, the book offers a holistic approach to the study of archaeological deposits that spans the broad fundamental aspects to the smallest details. This important guide: Offers information and principles for interpreting natural and anthropogenic sediments and physical processes in sites Provides a framework for reconstructing the history of a deposit and the site Outlines the fundamental principles of site formation processes Explores common misconceptions about what constitutes a deposit Presents a different approach for investigating archaeological stratigraphy based on sedimentary principles Written for archaeologists and geoarchaeologists at all levels of expertise as well as senior level researchers, Reconstructing Archaeological Sites offers a guide to the theory and practice of how stratigraphy is produced and how deposits can be organised in time and space.