Overview
- Editors:
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Elizabeth J. Reitz
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Georgia Museum of Natural History, University of Georgia, Athens, Athens, USA
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Sylvia J. Scudder
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Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville
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C. Margaret Scarry
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Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Second Edition features 6 new chapters, and all chapters updated or revised
- Uses case studies to resolve questions related to human behavior in the past rather than to demonstrate the application of methods
- Features comprehensive flora and fauna index
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages I-XVII
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Introduction
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- Elizabeth J. Reitz, Lee A. Newsom, Sylvia J. Scudder, C. Margaret Scarry
Pages 3-19
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The Physical Environment and Environmental Change
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- Richard Cooke, Máximo Jiménez, Anthony J. Ranere
Pages 95-121
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- Evan Peacock, Jochen Gerber
Pages 123-141
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- C. Fred T. Andrus, Daniel H. Sandweiss, Elizabeth J. Reitz
Pages 143-157
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Human Ecology
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Front Matter
Pages 159-159
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- Clark Spencer Larsen, Robert L. Kelly, Christopher B. Ruff, Margaret J. Schoeninger, Dale L. Hutchinson, Brian E. Hemphill
Pages 161-189
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- Michael Russo, Irvy R. Quitmyer
Pages 235-254
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- Robert J. Hard, Karen R. Adams, John R. Roney, Kari M. Schmidt, Gayle J. Fritz
Pages 315-333
About this book
A few years ago, one of us was approached by a student who asked if we really knew anything about human behavior from environmental archaeology. This student was taking an environmental archaeology course in which taphonomy and the biases of the techniques and methods used by environmental archae- ogists figured prominently. The goal was to train students to be informed users of environmental data. But the student, quite rightly, wanted to know if beyond taphonomy, recovery biases, and analytical biases, there was anything envir- mental archaeologists could say about the human condition. Her question was the stimulus for the first edition of this volume and continued to guide us as we edited this second edition. Our purpose is to show students and scholars, through a series of case studies, that there are things environmental archaeologists do know about the human-environmental relationship; many of which defy conventional archaeological expectations. To do so, however, we must break with the t- ditional organization of environmental archaeology along disciplinary lines. Environmental archaeology is intrinsically interdisciplinary. The demands of each discipline often mean, however, that specialists become further speci- ized in a very limited technical focus. While almost every environmental technique and method is represented in this edition, they are used as tools, not as ends in themselves.
Editors and Affiliations
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Georgia Museum of Natural History, University of Georgia, Athens, Athens, USA
Elizabeth J. Reitz
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Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville
Sylvia J. Scudder
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Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
C. Margaret Scarry
