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Rapp, G. & Hill C.L. (1998). Geoarchaeology. Yale University Press. New Haven. [Chapt. 1].
Leach, E. K. (1992). On the definition of geoarchaeology. Geoarchaeology, 7: 405-417.
Supplementary ReadingsCarson, M.T. (2004) Resolving the enigma of early coastal settlement in the Hawaiian islands: The stratigraphic sequence of the Wainiha beach site in Kauai. Geoarchaeology 19: 99-118.
Cullen, H.M. et al (2000) Climate change and the collapse of the Akkadian empire: Evidence from the deep sea. Geology, 28: 379-382 (link to read abstract online). This journal is available in Collier Science Library.
deMenocal, P.B. (2001) Cultural responses to climate change during the late Holocene. Science, vol. 292, pp. 667-673.(click link to access full-text online; note that you must be on a Tri-Co networked computer for access).
Davis, LG and Schweger, C.E. (2004).Geoarchaeological context of late Pleistocene and early Holocene occupation at the Cooper's Ferry site, western Idaho, USA. Geoarchaeology 19: 685-704.
Stein, J. K. (2001). Archaeological sediments in cultural environments. In Sediments in Archaelogical Context. J. K. Stein and W. R. Farrand, eds., Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press pp. 1-28.
Waters, M.R. (1992). Principles of Geoarchaeology. Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson. [Chapt. 1].
Core Readings
Rapp & Hill (1998). Geoarchaeology. Yale University Press. New Haven. [Chapt. 2].
Stein, J.K. (1987). Deposits for archaeologists. Advances in archaeological method and theory, 11:337-395.
Supplementary Readings
Aitken, M. J. (1997). Climatostsratigraphy. In Chonometric Dating in Archaeology. Edited by R. E. Taylor and M. J. Aitken. New York, Plenum (Kluwer) pp. 1-30.
Haug, G.H., D. Gunther, L.C. Peterson, D.M. Sigman, K.A. Hughen, B. Aeschlimann (2003) Climate and the collapse of Maya civilization. Science v. 299: 1713-1735. (link to Science article online)
Bradley, R.S. (1999) Paleoclimatology, Reconstructing climates of the Quaternary, 2nd. edition, Harcourt Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 1-35.
Dixon, E.J. and G.S. Smith (1990). A regional application of tephrochronology in Alaska. In Archaeological Geology of North America, edited by N.P. Lasca and J. Donahue, pp. 383-398. Geological Society of America, Centennial Special Volume 4, Boulder, CO.
Lamb, H.H., (1995) Climate, history and the modern world, Routledge, London, pp. 74-108.
Ruddiman, W.F., and J.F. Thomson (2001) The case for human causes of increased atmospheric CH4 over the last 5000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 20: 1769-1777. (link to online article or PDF version)
Schuldenrein, J. and G.A. Clark (1994). Landscape and prehistoric chronology of west–central Jordan. Geoarchaeology, 9(1): 31-55
Stein, J.K. (1990). Archaeological stratigraphy. In Archaeological Geology of North America, N.P. Lasca & J. Donahue, eds., Geol. Soc. Amer., Centennial Spec. Vol. 4, Boulder, CO. pp. 513-523.
Core Readings
Rapp & Hill (1998). Geoarchaeology. Yale University Press. New Haven. [Chapt. 3].
Ferring, C. R. (2001). Geoarchaeology in alluvial landscapes. In Earth Sciences and Archaeology. Edited by P. Goldberg, V. T. Holliday and C. R. Ferring. New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum pp. 77-106.
Supplementary Readings
Brookes, I.A. Louis D. L., and Dennell R.W. (1982) Alluvial Sequence in Central West Iran and Implications for Archaeological Survey. Journal of Field Archaeology 9: 285-299.
Brooks, M.J. and K.E. Sassaman (1990). Point bar geoarchaeology in the Upper Coastal Plain of the Savannah River Valley, South Carolina; a case study. In Archaeological Geology of North America, edited by N.P. Lasca and J. Donahue, pp. 182-197. Geological Society of America, Centennial Special Volume 4, Boulder, CO.
Force, E.R. (2004) Late Holocene behavior of Chaco and McElmo Canyon drainages (Southwest US): A comparison based on archaeologic age controls. Geoarchaeology, v. 19.
Larsen, C.E. and J. Schuldenrein (1990). Depositional history of an archaeologically dated flood plain, Haw River, North Carolina. In Archaeological Geology of North America, edited by N.P. Lasca and J. Donahue, pp. 161-181. Geological Society of America, Centennial Special Volume 4, Boulder, CO.
Marsh, B (1999) Alluvial Burial of Gordion, an Iron-Age City in Anatolia. Journal of Field Archaeology 26: 163-176
Hassan, F. A., B. Barich, et al. (2001). Holocene playa deposits of Farafra Oasis, Egypt, and their palaeoclimatic and geoarchaeological significance. Geoarchaeology 16(1): 29-46.
Lewis, R. B. (2000). Sea-level rise and subsidence effects on Gulf Coast archaeological site distributions. American Antiquity 65(3): 525-541.
Feibel, C. S. (2001). Archaeological sediments in lake margin environments. In Sediments in Archaelogical Context. Edited by J. K. Stein and W. R. Farrand. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press pp. 127-148.
Julig, P.J., J.H. McAndrews, and W.C. Mahaney (1990). Geoarchaeology of the Cummins site on the beach of proglacial Lake Minong, Lake Superior Basin, Canada. In Archaeological Geology of North America, edited by N.P. Lasca and J. Donahue, pp. 21-50. Geological Society of America, Centennial Special Volume 4, Boulder, CO.
Kraft, J.C. (1971) Sedimentary facies patterns and geologic history of a Holocene marine transgression. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 82: 2131-2158.
Wells, L. E. (2001). Archaeological sediments in coastal environments. In Sediments in Archaelogical Context. Edited by J. K. Stein and W. R. Farrand. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press pp. 149-182.
Rapp & Hill (1998). Geoarchaeology. Yale University Press. New Haven.
Birkeland, P.W. (1999). Soils and Geomorphology. Oxford University Press, New York. [chap.1]
Mandel, R. D. and E. A. Bettis, III (2001). Use and analysis of soils by archaeologists and geoscientists. In Earth Sciences and Archaeology. Edited by P. Goldberg, V. T. Holliday and C. R. Ferring. New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum pp. 173-204.
Waters, M.R. (1992). Principles of Geoarchaeology. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. [Chapt. 2, pp. 40-60]
Holliday, V.T. and P. Goldberg (1992). Glossary of selected soil science terms. In Soils in archaeology landscape evolution and human occupation, edited by V.T. Holliday, pp. 101-118. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.247-254.
Stein, J.K. (1992). Organic matter in archaeological contexts. In Soils in archaeology : landscape evolution and human occupation, edited by V.T. Holliday, pp. 193-216. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
Bintliff, J.L., B. Davies, C. Gaffney, A. Snodgrass, and A. Waters (1992). Trace metal accumulations in soils on and around ancient settlements in Greece. In Geoprospection in the Archaeological Landscape, edited by P. Spoerry, pp. 9-24. Oxbow Books, Oxford.
Dormaar, J.F. and A.B. Beudoin (1991). Application of Soil Chemistry to Interpret Cultural Events at the Calderwood Buffalo Jump (DkPj-27), Southern Alberta, Canada. Geoarchaeology, 6(1):85-
Leonardi, G. and M. Miglavacca (1999). Soil phosphorus analysis as an integrative tool for recognizing buried ancient ploughsoils. Journal of Archaeological Science 26: 343-352.
Rapp & Hill (1998). Geoarchaeology. Yale University Press. New Haven.
Stein, J. K. (2001). A review of site formation processes and their relevance to geoarchaeology. In Earth Sciences and Archaeology. Edited by P. Goldberg, V. T. Holliday and C. R. Ferring. New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum pp. 37-51.
Dibble, H.L., P.G. Chase, S.P. McPherron, and A. Tuffreau (1997). Testing the reality of a Ñliving flooræ with archaeological data. American Antiquity 62: 629-651.
Karkanas, P. (2002). Micromorphological studies of Greek prehistoric sites: New insights in the interpretation of the archaeological record. Geoarchaeology 17(3): 237-259.
Sherwood, S., C. (2001). Microartifacts. In Earth Sciences and Archaeology. Edited by P. Goldberg, V. T. Holliday and C. R. Ferring. New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum pp. 327-351.
Dunnell, R.C. and J.K. Stein (1989). Theoretical issues in the interpretation of microartifacts. Geoarchaeology, 4(1):31-42.
Goff, J.R. and McFadgen BG (2004). Large earthquakes and the abandonment of prehistoric coastal settlements in 15th century New Zealand. Geoarchaeology 18: 609-623.
Goldberg, Paul and Ian Whitbread (1993). Micromorphological study of a Bedouin tent floor. In Formation Processes in Archaeological Context, edited by P. Goldberg, D.T. Nash, and M.D. Petraglia, pp 165-188. Prehistory Press, Madison.
Matthews, W., C.A.I. French, T. Lawrence, D.F. Cutler, and M.K. Jones (1997). Microstratigraphic traces of site formation processes and human activities. World Archaeology 29: 281-308.
Metcalf, D. and K.M. Heath (1990). Microrefuse and site structure: the hearths and floors of the Heartbreak Hotel. American Antiquity, 55(4):781-796.
Sherwood, Sarah C., Jan F. Simek, and Richard R. Polhemus (1995). Artifact size and spatial process: macro- and microartifacts in a Mississippian house. Geoarchaeology 10:429-455.
Bones
Core Readings
Rapp & Hill (1998). Geoarchaeology. Yale University Press. New Haven. [pg. 96-103].
Verano, J. 2001. War and death in the Moche world: Osteological evidence and visual discourse. In Moche Art and Archaeology, edited by J. Pillsbury, pp. 111-126. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art.
Wright, L., and C. Yoder. 2003. Recent progress in Bioarchaeology: Approaches to the Osteological Paradox. Journal of Archaeological Research 11:43-70.
Supplementary Readings
Bernabeu, J., C. M. Barton, et al. (2001). A taphonomic perspective on Neolithic beginnings: theory, interpretation, and empirical data in the western Mediterranean. Journal of Archaeological Science 28: 597-612.
Levitan, Bruce and Peter Smart (1990). Geomorphology, bone analysis, and sediments: reconstruction of a cave sequence in the Mendips, England. In Experimentation and Reconstruction in Environmental Archaeology, edited by D.E. Robinson, pp. 191-224. Oxbow Books, Oxford.
Marean, C. W. (1997). Animal bones from caves to cities: reverse utility curves as methodological artifacts. American Antiquity 62(4): 698-711.
O'Connor, T.P. (1996). A critical overview of archaeological animal bone studies. World Archaeology 28: 5-19.
Geophysics
Rapp & Hill (1998). Geoarchaeology. Yale University Press. New Haven. [Chap. 8]
Allsop , J.M. (1992). The British Geological Survey: geoprospection techniques applied to the archaeological landscape. In Geoprospection in the Archaeological Landscape, edited by Paul Spoerry, pp. 121-140. Oxford, Oxbow Books.
Kvamme, K. L. (2001) Current practices in archaeogeophysics. In Earth Sciences and Archaeology. P. Goldberg, V. T. Holliday and C. R. Ferring, eds., New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum pp. 353-384.
Russell, J.K. and M.V. Stasiuk (2000) Ground-penetrating radar mapping of Minoan volcanic deposits and the Late Bronze Age paleotopography, Thera, Greece. In: W.G. Griffiths et al, eds., The Archaeology of Geological Catastrophes, Geological Society, London, Spec. Pub. 171: 105-121.
Abbott, J.T. and C.D. Frederick (1990). Proton magnetometer investigations of burned rock middens in west-central Texas: Clues to formation processes. Journal of Archaeological Science, 17(5):535.
Fischer, P.M. (1980) Geophysical prospecting at Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus Journal of Field Archaeology 7: 479 - 484
Frederick, C.D., and J.T. Abbott (1992) Magnetic prospection of prehistoric sites in an alluvial environment: Examples from NW and West-central Texas Journal of Field Archaeology 19: 139 - 153
Hammond, P.C. (1976) Proton-magnetometer/resistivity survey: Gebel Et-Tarif, Egypt Journal of Field Archaeology 3: 229 - 230
Ladefoged, T.N., S.M. McLachlan, S.C.L. Riss, P.J. Sheppard, and D.G. Sutton (1995). GIS-based image enhancement of conductivity and magnetic susceptibility data from Ureturituri Pa and Fort Resolution, New Zealand. American Antiquity 60:471-481.
Martin, W.A., J.E. Bruseth, and R.J. Huggins (1991). Assessing feature function and spatial patterning of artifacts with geophysical remote-sensing data. American Antiquity , 56(4):701-720.
Wynn, J.C. (1990). Applications of high-resolution geophysical methods to archaeology. In Archaeological Geology of North America, edited by N.P. Lasca and J. Donahue, pp. 603-617. Geological Society of America, Centennial Special Volume 4, Boulder, CO.
Core Readings.
Rapp, G. and Hill C.L. (1998). Geoarchaeology. Yale University Press. New Haven. [Ch. 6]
Orton C. Tyers, P and Vince A. (1993). Pottery in Archaeology. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. [Chapt. 11].
Arnold, D. E., Neff, H. & Bishop, R. L. (1991). Compositional analysis and ÂÂsourcesºº of pottery: an ethnoarchaeological approach. American Anthropologist 93: 70–90.
Day, P.M. et al. (1999) Group therapy in Crete: A comparison of INAA and thin section petrography. Journal of Archaeological Science 26: 1025-1036.
Supplementary Readings
Watts, B.G. et al. (2004) Geochemistry and petrography of basalt grindstones from the karak plateau, central Jordan. Geoarchaeology 19: 47-69.
Buxeda S.J. (1999). Alteration and contamination of archaeological ceramics: the perturbation problem. Journal of Archaeological Science 26: 295–313.
Cogswell, J. W., Neff, H. & Glascock, M. D. (1996) The effect of firing temperature on the elemental characterization of pottery. Journal of Archaeological Science 23, 283–287.
Buikstra, J.E., et al (2003), Isotopic analysis of teeth and bones solves a Mayan Mesoamerican mystery. In: Understanding Early Classic Copan, E.E. Bell et al, eds. University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications, Chap. 10.
Dorais MJ et al. (2004) Evidence for a single clay/temper source for the manufacture of Middle and Late Helladic pottery from Asine, Greece. Geoarchaeology 19: 657-684.
Orton C. (1993) How many pots make five? – an historical review of pottery quantification. Archaeometry 35 (2) 1993: 169-184.
Orton, C.R. and Tyers P.A. (1992) Counting broken objects: The statistics of ceramic assemblages. Proceedings of the British Academy 77: 163-184.
Orton C. Tyers, P and Vince A. (1993). Pottery in Archaeology. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. [Chapt. 13, 16]
Mills, B.J. 1994: Integrating functional analyses of vessels and sherds through models of ceramic assemblage formation. World Archaeology 21 (1): 133-147.
Kent S (1992) Studying variability in the archaeological record: An ethnoarchaeoloigcal model for distinguishing mobility patterns. American Antiquity 57(4): 635-660.
Shapiro, G. (1984) Ceramic vessels, site permanence and group size: A Mississippian example. Amercan Antiquity 49(4): 696-712.
Casteel, Richard W. (1978) Faunal Assemblages and the "Wiegemethode" or Weight Method. Journal of Field Archaeology 5: 71—77.
Claasen, C. (1998). Shells. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.
Rapp & Hill (1998). Geoarchaeology. Yale University Press. New Haven. [Chap. 9]
Nielsen, Axel E. (1991). Trampling the archaeological record: an experimental study. American Antiquity, 56(3):483-503.
Simpson IA et al (2004). Assessing the role of winter grazing in historic land degradation, Myvatnssveit, northeast Iceland. Geoarchaeology 19: 471-502.
Steinberg, John M. (1996). Ploughzone sampling in Denmark: isolating and interpreting site signatures from disturbed contexts. Antiquity 70:368-392.
Butzer, K.W. (1982). Archaeology as human ecology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [Chapt. 7]
Schweger, C. (1985). Geoarchaeology of northern regions: lessons from cryoturbation at Onion Portage, Alaska. In Archaeological sediments in context, edited by J.K. Stein and W.R. Farrand, pp. 127-141. Center for the Study of Early Man, Institute for Quaternary Studies, University of Maine, Orono
Shea, John J. and Joel D. Klenck (1993). An experimental investigation of the effects of trampling on the results of lithic microwear analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science, 20(2): 175-194
Wainwright, J. (1994). Erosion of archaeological sites: results and implications of a site simulation model. Geoarchaeology, 9(3): 173-201
Rapp, G. and Hill C.L. (1998). Geoarchaeology. Yale University Press. New Haven.
Noller, J.S. et al (2000) Introduction to Quaternary geochronology. In: Quaternary Geochronology, Methods and Applications, J.S. Noller et al., eds., American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, pgs. 1-10.
Arnold, L. David (1995). Conventional radiocarbon dating. In N.W. Rutter and N.R. Catto, eds., Dating Methods for Quaternary Deposits, Geological Association of Canada, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, pp. 107-115
Trumbore, S.E. (2000) Radiocarbon geochronology. In: Quaternary Geochronology, Methods and Applications, J.S. Noller et al., eds., American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, pgs. 41-60.
Sternberg, R. S. (1997). Archaeomagnetic dating. In Chonometric Dating in Archaeology. Edited by R. E. Taylor and M. J. Aitken. New York, Plenum (Kluer) pp. 323-356.
Verosub, K.L. (2000) Paleomagnetic dating. In: Quaternary Geochronology, Methods and Applications, J.S. Noller et al., eds., American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, pgs. 339-356.
Evans, L.J. (1995). The use of paleosols in dating Quaternary deposits. In N.W. Rutter and N.R. Catto, eds., Dating Methods for Quaternary Deposits, Geol. Assoc. Canada, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, pp. 269-281.
Jacoby, G.C. (2000) Dendrochronology. In: Quaternary Geochronology, Methods and Applications, J.S. Noller et al., eds., Amer. Geophys. Union, Washington DC, 11-20.
Buck, C.E., C.D. Litton, and E.M. Scott(1994). Making the most of radiocarbon dating: some statistical considerations. Antiquity, 68(259): 252-263.
Taylor, R. E. (1997). Radiocarbon Dating. In Chonometric Dating in Archaeology. Edited by R. E. Taylor and M. J. Aitken. New York, Plenum (Kluer) pp. 65-96.
Butzer, K.W. (1982). Archaeology as human ecology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [pp. 166-170]
Gillespie, R. (1984). Radiocarbon users handbook. Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, Monograph No. 3, Oxford.
Litherland, Albert Edward and Roelf Pieter Beukens (1995). Radiocarbon dating by atom counting. In Dating Methods for Quaternary Deposits, edited by N.W. Rutter and N.R. Catto, pp. 117-123. Geological Association of Canada, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, Newfoundland.
Shott, Michael J. (1992). Radiocarbon dating as a probabilistic technique: the Childers Site and late Woodland occupation in the Ohio valley. American Antiquity , 57(2): 202-230
Student-led discussion and presentations.
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