Wet Site Archaeology

by Purdy, Barbara A.

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Title Statements

Full title :Wet Site Archaeology / edited by Barbara A. Purdy.

Summary

"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."--Provided by publisher

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):CRC Press
Place of Publication:Boca Raton, FL
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781351094658, 1351094653, 1351077759, 9781351077750
oclc:on1019680751
LC Classification:CC77.W48
Dewey Decimal:930.1/028

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Biographical Notes; Preface; 1: A Wetland Perspective; 2: Problems and Responsibilities in the Excavation of Wet Sites; 3: Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Lake Neuchatel, Switzerland: From the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages; 4: The Peat Hag; 5: The Location and Assessment of Underwater; 6: New Applications of Remote Sensing: Geophysical Prospection for Underwater Archaeological Sites in Switzerland; 7: The Somerset Levels: Multidisciplinary Investigations and a Wealth of Results.

8: Wet Sites Archaeology at Red Bay, Labrador9: A Waterlogged Site on Huahine Island, French Polynesia; 10: The Significance of the 3000 B.P. Hoko River Waterlogged Fishing Camp in Our Understanding of Southern Northwest Coast Cultural Evolution; 11: Research Design and Wet Site Archaeology in the Netherlands: An Example; 12: Early Rainforest Archaeology in Southwestern South America: Research Context, Design and Data at Monte Verde; 13: The Skeletons of Herculaneum, Italy; 14: An Assembly of Death: Bog Bodies of Northern and Western Europe; 15: Treatment of Waterlogged Wood.

16: Marco's Buried Treasure: Wetlands Archaeology and Adve…

Subjects

Archaeology -- Congresses. -- Methodolo… Archaeology -- Methodology Archéologie -- Congrès. -- Méthodologie Conference papers and proceedings HISTORY -- Ancient Sites archéologiques saturés d'eau -- C… Water-saturated sites (Archaeology) Water-saturated sites (Archaeology) -- … Wetlands Wetlands -- Congresses Zones humides -- Congrès