Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 INTRODUCTION
• PART I: LIFE
• 2 HUMAN ENVIRONMENT
• Lithosphere
• Atmosphere
• Topography
• Biosphere
• People
• 3 ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
• The Biosphere
• Soil Processes
• Sedimentation
• 4 ECO SYSTEMS
• Definition and Characteristics of Ecosystems
• Space
• Time
• Gradients
• Succession
• Humans
• A Classification of Ecosystems
• Changing Fundamentals
• PART II: FROM DEATH TO BURIAL
• 5 A CRANNOG AND ITS ENVIRONMENT
• Different Categories of Materials
• Different Scales of Space
• Relevance of the Spatial Integrity of the Data
• The Special Nature of the Site
• The Site Catchment
• 6 DEATH ASSEMBLAGE FORMATION
• Death or Organisms
• Modelling Death Assemblages
• Community Death
• Ecosystem Abandonment
• Ecosystem Death by Burial
• 7 DEPOSITION AND POST-DEPOSITION
• The Nature of Archaeology
• Physico-Chemical Conditions
• Movement and Change
• Post-Deposition Transformation of Land and Archaeology
• Representativeness of Preservation
• PART III:PROCEDURES AND METHODS
• 8 RESEARCH DESIGNS AND SAMPLING STRATEGIES
• The Global View
• Spatial Areas of Research
• Intra-Areal Sampling
• Small-Scale Strategies
• Methods
• 9 METHODS OF EXAMINING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISTRBUTIONS
• Recording Systems
• Modern Maps
• Aerial Photography
• Historical Documents and Toponymy
• Ground Level Survey
• Phosphate and Magnetic Susceptibility Measurement
• Geophysics
• Biogeography
• Conclusions
• 10 ANALYSIS AND USE OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS
• Mapping
• Field Description
• Bulk Laboratory Analysis
• Micromorphology
• Soils and Sediments in Archaeology
• 11 BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS
• General Issues
• Plant Microfossils
• Plant Macrofossils
• Wood
• Invertebrates
• Vertebrates
• 12 CONTEXTS
• Molecules, Isotopes and Increments
• Archaeological Features and Sites
• Big Areas
• PART IV: INTERPRETATION
• 13 DATA ANALYSIS
• Grouping Data Internally
• Methods which use Individual Species' Ecology
• 14 POSSIBILISTIC STUDIES
• Human-Life Studies
• Ethnoarchaeology
• Experiment
• Ethnoarchaeology Experiment and Taphonomy
• Site Exploitation Analysis
• Thiessen Polygons
• Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation
• 15 CASE STUDIES
• Northern England: The Roman Impact
• The Earlier Neolithic of the English Chalk
• Soils and Human Land-use
• 16 THE HUMAN NICHE: A BASIC UNIT OF STUDY FOR ARCHAEOLOGY
• References
• Index