Coming to Terms with Archaeology & Paleontology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coming to Terms with Archaeology & Paleontology write by . This book was released on 2013. Coming to Terms with Archaeology & Paleontology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Concise Dictionary of Paleontology
A Concise Dictionary of Paleontology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Concise Dictionary of Paleontology write by Robert L. Carlton. This book was released on 2018-03-07. A Concise Dictionary of Paleontology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This authored dictionary presents a unique glossary of paleontological terms, taxa, localities, and concepts, with focus on the most significant orders, genera, and species in terms of historical turning points such as mass extinctions. The book is an accurate and up-to-date collection of the most important paleontological terms and taxa, and may be used as a resource by students, researchers, libraries, and museums. Though useful to many in professional and academic settings, the book is also aimed at general readers of scientific literature who may enjoy the material without a background in paleontology. While there are many current resources on the subject, few fully encapsulate an accurate representation of the paleontological lexicon. This book attempts to compile such a representation in a moderately comprehensive manner, and includes a list of the most important monographs and articles that have been consulted to put together this essential work.
High Resolution Archaeology and Neanderthal Behavior
High Resolution Archaeology and Neanderthal Behavior - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook High Resolution Archaeology and Neanderthal Behavior write by Eudald Carbonell i Roura. This book was released on 2012-03-13. High Resolution Archaeology and Neanderthal Behavior available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The aim of this book is to provide a new insight on Neanderthal behaviour using the data recovered in level J of Romaní rockshelter (north-eastern Spain). Due to the sedimentary dynamics that formed the Romaní deposit, the occupation layers are characterized by a high temporal resolution, which makes it easier to interprete the archaeological data in behavioural terms. In addition, the different analytical domains (geoarchaeology, lithic technology, zooarchaeology, taphonomy, anthracology, palaeontology) are addressed from a spatial perspective that is basic to understand human behaviour, but also to evaluate the behavioural inferences in the framework of the archaeological formation processes.
Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils
Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils write by Michael J. O'Brien. This book was released on 2007-05-08. Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is difficult for today's students of archaeology to imagine an era when chronometric dating methods were unavailable. However, even a casual perusal of the large body of literature that arose during the first half of the twentieth century reveals a battery of clever methods used to determine the relative ages of archaeological phenomena, often with considerable precision. Stratigraphic excavation is perhaps the best known of the various relative-dating methods used by prehistorians. Although there are several techniques of using artifacts from superposed strata to measure time, these are rarely if ever differentiated. Rather, common practice is to categorize them under the heading `stratigraphic excavation'. This text distinguishes among the several techniques and argues that stratigraphic excavation tends to result in discontinuous measures of time - a point little appreciated by modern archaeologists. Although not as well known as stratigraphic excavation, two other methods of relative dating have figured important in Americanist archaeology: seriation and the use of index fossils. The latter (like stratigraphic excavation) measures time discontinuously, while the former - in various guises - measures time continuously. Perhaps no other method used in archaeology is as misunderstood as seriation, and the authors provide detailed descriptions and examples of each of its three different techniques. Each method and technique of relative dating is placed in historical perspective, with particular focus on developments in North America, an approach that allows a more complete understanding of the methods described, both in terms of analytical technique and disciplinary history. This text will appeal to all archaeologists, from graduate students to seasoned professionals, who want to learn more about the backbone of archaeological dating.
Applying Evolutionary Archaeology
Applying Evolutionary Archaeology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Applying Evolutionary Archaeology write by Michael J. O'Brien. This book was released on 2007-05-08. Applying Evolutionary Archaeology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anthropology, and by extension archaeology, has had a long-standing interest in evolution in one or several of its various guises. Pick up any lengthy treatise on humankind written in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the chances are good that the word evolution will appear somewhere in the text. If for some reason the word itself is absent, the odds are excellent that at least the concept of change over time will have a central role in the discussion. After one of the preeminent (and often vilified) social scientists of the nineteenth century, Herbert Spencer, popularized the term in the 1850s, evolution became more or less a household word, usually being used synonymously with change, albeit change over extended periods of time. Later, through the writings of Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis Henry Morgan, and others, the notion of evolution as it applies to stages of social and political development assumed a prominent position in anthropological disc- sions. To those with only a passing knowledge of American anthropology, it often appears that evolutionism in the early twentieth century went into a decline at the hands of Franz Boas and those of similar outlook, often termed particularists. However, it was not evolutionism that was under attack but rather comparativism— an approach that used the ethnographic present as a key to understanding how and why past peoples lived the way they did (Boas 1896).
