TY - CHAP
T1 - Environmental archaeology
T2 - Interpreting practices-in-the-landscape through geoarchaeology
AU - Denham, Tim
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2008 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Environmental archaeology is concerned with “the physical and biological elements and relationships that impinge on” the activities of people in the past (Dincauze 2000: xxiv). Although defi nitions vary, environmental archaeologists consider human activities in the past within their environmental contexts and apply techniques and interpretations derived from the biological and geophysical sciences to archaeological problems. Thus the term “environmental archaeology” encapsulates geoarchaeology, which is concerned with the “application of concepts and methods of the geosciences to archaeological research” (Waters 1992: 3).
AB - Environmental archaeology is concerned with “the physical and biological elements and relationships that impinge on” the activities of people in the past (Dincauze 2000: xxiv). Although defi nitions vary, environmental archaeologists consider human activities in the past within their environmental contexts and apply techniques and interpretations derived from the biological and geophysical sciences to archaeological problems. Thus the term “environmental archaeology” encapsulates geoarchaeology, which is concerned with the “application of concepts and methods of the geosciences to archaeological research” (Waters 1992: 3).
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M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:79953693111
SP - 468
EP - 481
BT - Handbook of Landscape Archaeology
PB - Taylor and Francis Ltd.
ER -