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Encyclopedia > Environmental archaeology

Environmental archaeology is the study of the long-term relationship between humans and their environments. Various sub-disciplines are involved to document and interpret this relationship, including paleoethnobotany, geomorphology, palynology, geophysics, landscape archaeology, human biology and human ecology. Environmental archaeology has seen a surge of interest in recent years, as it is one of the few disciplines that is able to provide empirical evidence to show how humans have responded to rapid climate change in the past. Paleoethnobotany, also known as archaeobotany in European (particularly British) academic circles, is the archaeological sub-field that studies plant remains from archaeological sites. ... Surface of the Earth Geomorphology is the study of landforms, including their origin and evolution, and the processes that shape them. ... Pollen under microscope Palynology is the science that studies contemporary and fossil palynomorphs, including pollen, spores, dinoflagellate cysts, acritarchs, chitinozoans and scolecodonts, together with particulate organic matter (POM) and kerogen found in sedimentary rocks and sediments. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... Landscape archaeology refers to a body of method and theory for the study of past people and their material culture within the context of their interactions in the wider social and natural environment they inhabited. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Human ecology is an academic discipline that deals with the relationship between humans and their (natural) environment. ...


Environmental Archaeology has emerged as a named discipline only in the last 30 years. It has rapidly grown in significance and is now seen as a major component to most excavation projects. Many Universities teach the subject as a standard course component and also as a seprate degree. One leading university in this field is Royal Holloway University of London where the discippline is taught as part of an Environmental Archaeology degree. University Logo Royal Holloway, University of London is a college of the University of London located in Egham, Surrey, England. ...


See also

The term bioarchaeology was first coined by British archaeologist Grahame Clark in 1972 as a reference to zooarchaeology, or the study of animal bones from archaeological sites. ... Zooarchaeology (or Archaeozoology) is the study of animal remains from archaeological sites. ...

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References

Branch et al. 2005. Envronmental Archaeology: Theoretical and Practical Approaches. Hodder Arnold education.


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For the purposes of this paper environmental archaeology will be considered in its broadest sense, encompassing both those areas of research that are focused explicitly on archaeological issues, and in which a human dimension is central, and those that are essentially palaeoenvironmental but have implications for archaeology.
The paper is confined largely to environmental aspects of archaeological science, although dating techniques are briefly considered because a good chronological framework is as essential for palaeoenvironmental studies as it is for other areas of archaeology, and lipid analysis is referred to as it clearly overlaps with other aspects of palaeoeconomic research and diet.
A wealth of environmental evidence is available to the archaeologist, at least in broad landscape terms, but a more detailed examination of the evidence reveals that there are significant gaps in the distribution of the sites and that the quality of the data is variable.
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Archaeological mitigation of large construction projects often includes environmental reconstruction as a background for the chronology for human occupation of the area.
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