Historical Archaeology and Environment

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Souza, Marcos André Torres de (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Costa, Diogo Menezes (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Archaeology.; Environment.; Climate change.; Environment Studies.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.

This edited volume gathers contributions focused on understanding the environment through the lens of Historical Archaeology. Pressing issues such as climate change, global warming, the Anthropocene and loss of biodiversity have pushed scholars from different areas to examine issues related to the c...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1.Introduction: Historical Archaeology and environment
• Part I: Conceptual frameworks
• Chapter 2.More than just a record: active ecological effects of archaeological strata
• Chapter 3. The Archaeology of Climate Change: Is Unbridled Commodity Production Sustainable?
• Part II: Studies on environmental historical archaeology
• Chapter 4.Eco-historical archaeology in the Brazilian Amazon: material, natural and cultural western transformations
• Chapter 5. Indigenous charcoal production and Spanish metal mining enterprises: Historical Archaeology of extractive activities and ecological degradation in central and northern Mexico
• Chapter 6.Towards an archaeology of extensive pastoralism in the Great Artesian basin in Australia
• Chapter 7. The fishermen's disappearance: an archaeology of cruel modernity in São Paulo city
• Chapter 8. Entangled relations: the expansion of a colonial frontier in Central Brazil, eighteenth-century
• Chapter 9. The Deep History of the Ficus Thonningii Bl. in Central Africa: Ontology, Settlement and Environment among Lower Congo Peoples (Early times to 500 B.C.E.)
• Chapter 10. The Evolution of Recent Multidisciplinary Deep-Water Archaeological and Biological Research on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf
• Part III.Historical Archaeology and the Anthropocene
• Chapter 11. Archaeology and the Anthropocene in the Study of Settler Australia
• Chapter 12. The Anthropocene in Antarctica: Considering "fixed" and "more fluid" perspectives of analysis.