Concept information
Preferred term
environmental archaeology
Definition(s)
- Broadly, the study of past environment-human interaction, and especially the use of biological, palaeoecological, sedimentological, geophysical and other methods to study and interpret the environment in which humans lived. Deriving in part from the pioneering work of G.W. Dimbleby and of K.W. Butzer, the term was introduced in Europe in the 1970s to emphasise the additional information that could be obtained from linked scientific investigation of the palaeoenvironment of archaeological sites, as opposed to merely the excavation of archaeological site structures or the classification of inorganic artefacts (e.g. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environmental Change; environmental archaeology]
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-GWSN73CX-4
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