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archaeological excavation methods
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Barbara C.S. Hansen
Bog Bodies
Brenda Sigler-Eisenberg
Bryony Coles
Canadian Conservation Institute
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Dale R. Croes
David N. Dickel
David W. Grattan
E. Gary Stickel
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Ervan G. Garrison
Glen H. Doran
Grauballe Man
Hoko River
Hontoon Island
Human Lower Leg
James A. Tuck
John M. Coles
Johns River Basin
Johns River Water Management District
Lake Tulane
Late Bronze Age
Marion S. Gilliland
Michel Egloff
Monte Verde Site
multidisciplinary wetland research
organic artifact preservation
Ozette Village
paleoenvironmental reconstruction
Peace River
Peg Solution
prehistoric wetland sites
R.W. Brandt
Red Bay
remote sensing archaeology
Richard D. Daugherty
Sander E. Van Der Leeuw
Sara Bisel
Side Scan Sonar
Sub-bottom Profiler
Sweet Track
Tom D. Dillehay
Universidad Austral De Chile
Warm Mineral Springs
waterlogged deposits
Waterlogged Wood
Wet Site Archaeology
Wet Site Excavations
Wet Sites
Wetland Archaeology
William A. Watts
Yosihiko H. Sinoto
Product details
- ISBN 9781315898650
- Weight: 810g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 08 Dec 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume, the result of an International Conference on Wet Site Archaeology funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, explores the rewards and responsibilities of recovering unique assemblages from water-saturated deposits. Characteristics common to all archaeological wet sites are identified from Newfoundland to Chile, Polynesia to Florida, and from the Late Pleistocene to the Twentieth Century. Topics include innovative excavation and preservation methods; the need for adequate funding to preserve and analyze the abundant biological and cultural remains recovered only at archaeological wet sites; expanded knowledge of past environments, subsistence, technologies, artistic expressions, skeletal structure, and pathologies; the urgency to inform developers and governmental bodies about the invisible heritage entombed in wetlands that is often destroyed before it can be investigated; a formula for establishing priorities for excavating wet sites; and how to determine when enough of a wet site has been sampled.Many famous sites and discoveries are described in this volume, including Herculaneum, Hoko River, Hontoon Island, Key Marco, Monte Verde, Ozette, Somerset Levels, Windover, bog bodies of Northern Europe, and lake dwellers of Switzerland. Professional and amateur archaeologists, as well as anyone interested in archaeology or the significance of wet site archaeology will find this book fascinating.
