Shellfish Gathering and Shell Midden Archaeology
Author | : Gregory A. Waselkov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gregory A. Waselkov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gregory Alan Waselkov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Julie K. Stein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
This book presents the latest research on shell middens: sites that contain shell and are located near coastal and fluvial settings around the world. The shell imparts certain characteristics to sites such as complex discontinuous strata, low densities of artifacts, large volumes of deposits, alkaline chemistry and proximity to fluctuating sea level. The shell midden is often a product of both cultural and non-cultural events, such as saturation of the lower portion of the midden by rising sea level, or differential weathering of shell and bone. These non-cultural events affect cultural interpretations. The book aims to provide a detailed history of shell midden research and a description of procedures and analyses using an example of a Northwest Coast shell midden. Key Features * Excavation strategy * Use of microartifacts * Classification of fire-cracked rock * Detection of burned bone * Use of grain-size analysis on shell * Stratigraphic and sedimentological analysis
Author | : John Parkington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mirjana Roksandic |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2014-05-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0826354572 |
The excavation of shell middens and mounds is an important source of information regarding past human diet, settlement, technology, and paleoenvironments. The contributors to this book introduce new ways to study shell-matrix sites, ranging from the geochemical analysis of shellfish to the interpretation of human remains buried within. Drawing upon examples from around the world, this is one of the only books to offer a global perspective on the archaeology of shell-matrix sites. “A substantial contribution to the literature on the subject and . . . essential reading for archaeologists and others who work on this type of site.”—Barbara Voorhies, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Coastal Collectors in the Holocene: The Chantuto People of Southwest Mexico
Author | : Jennifer Lee Richardson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2014-06-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1483294285 |
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
Author | : International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference |
Publisher | : BAR International Series |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Animal remains (Archaeology) |
ISBN | : 9781407313085 |
This publication is the volume is the proceedings of the ICAZ Archaeomalacology Working Group which took place at the 11th International Conference of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ), held in Paris, France 23rd-28th August 2010. Twenty-three papers are published with evidences of human collection and modification of shells from all over the world and over a large scale of chronology (from Prehistory to Antiquity). The papers are organized in three sub-sessions. The section "Acquisition and use of shell raw materials in prehistory" focuses on patterns of acquisition and use of shell raw materials as well as on the production sequences of shell items in time and space. Specific themes of interest include the exploitation of shells as raw materials in relation to their dietary functions, or choices made to use particular shells along with or as opposed to other raw materials. The section "Shell middens and shells as a food resource" provides a venue to explore the relationships between human groups and molluscan resources and especially encourages the combination of information derived from multiple disciplines, as well as studies that seek to contextualise shell-gathering in a wider socio-economic context. The section "Shells as indicators of palaeoenvironment, site formation and transformation" aims to investigate the potential of the archaeological shell to answer questions not directly related to subsistence or material culture and especially welcomes contributions which mobilise the study of the archaeological shell in relation to modern resource management and environmental change.
Author | : Michael B. Schiffer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gregory A. Waselkov |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2005-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817351868 |
An archaeological guide to the earliest French settlement on the northern Gulf Coast. Archaeological excavations since 1989 have uncovered exciting evidence of the original townsite of Mobile, first capital of the Louisiana colony, and remnants of the colony's port on Dauphin Island.