I am pleased to announce the final print and on-line release of two invited chapters for the three-volume compendium of the 2008 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARCHAEOLOGY by Elsevier/Academic Press, Oxford, England ISBN 13: 978-0-12-548030-7
GROSSMAN, JOEL W.
Human-Landscape Interactions in the 21st Century. In Pearsall, D. (ed). Encyclopedia of Archaeology (2008), Elsevier / Academic Press, Oxford, England., vol. 2, pp. 1458 - 1476.
Human-Landscape Interactions in the 21st Century. In Pearsall, D. (ed). Encyclopedia of Archaeology (2008), Elsevier / Academic Press, Oxford, England., vol. 2, pp. 1458 - 1476.
From: Grossman, 2007a; Figure 5; © 2007 JOEL W. GROSSMAN, Ph.D.
Human-Landscape Interactions in the 21st Century begins with a review of background assumptions and concepts underpinning, and at times obscuring, modern research priorities and debates in human ecology and landscape studies from the perspective and data limits of archaeology.
The overview describes current archaeological and paleo-ecological evidence for prehistoric human/cultural impacts affecting, and responses to, environmental change, as well as recent popular theories attributing significant episodes of culture-change to various, and at times, biblical, catastrophic droughts and floods in human history.
International case studies are used to highlight the role archaeology is beginning to play in providing new insights into the processes of environmental trauma and degradation, sudden climate change, the loss of habitats and species diversity, sea level rise, the associated spectre of inundated coastal and river habitats, and of the often parallel pattern of desertification.
The treatment also addresses the logistical and policy implications of recent discoveries of well preserved archaeological and environmental data from formally ignored contexts beneath the sea and/or under the protective land-fill of urban landscapes.
Finally, it suggests some geospatial strategies, and data, our children will need to help address the challenges of environmental trauma in the future.
The overview describes current archaeological and paleo-ecological evidence for prehistoric human/cultural impacts affecting, and responses to, environmental change, as well as recent popular theories attributing significant episodes of culture-change to various, and at times, biblical, catastrophic droughts and floods in human history.
International case studies are used to highlight the role archaeology is beginning to play in providing new insights into the processes of environmental trauma and degradation, sudden climate change, the loss of habitats and species diversity, sea level rise, the associated spectre of inundated coastal and river habitats, and of the often parallel pattern of desertification.
The treatment also addresses the logistical and policy implications of recent discoveries of well preserved archaeological and environmental data from formally ignored contexts beneath the sea and/or under the protective land-fill of urban landscapes.
Finally, it suggests some geospatial strategies, and data, our children will need to help address the challenges of environmental trauma in the future.
GROSSMAN, JOEL W.
Inter-Regional Studies/ Archaeology of Toxic and Hazardous Environments. In Pearsall, D (ed). Encyclopedia of Archaeology (2008), Elsevier / Academic Press, Oxford, England, vol.3, pp. 2134 - 2156.
Inter-Regional Studies/ Archaeology of Toxic and Hazardous Environments. In Pearsall, D (ed). Encyclopedia of Archaeology (2008), Elsevier / Academic Press, Oxford, England, vol.3, pp. 2134 - 2156.
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The Archaeology of Toxic and Hazardous Environments illustrates the use of applied technology to provide enhanced levels of data control in restricted time frames - and for archaeological challenges to the viability of historic preservation in dangerous settings.
Two examples of emergency rescue archaeology, one a Civil War complex under a contaminated Superfund site, the other a national monument damaged by natural disaster, illustrate the application of a range of applied technology solutions to emergency rescue archaeology in extreme settings.
Multiple categories of, overlapping - and often redundant - applied technology are discussed: all-weather field and laboratory operations, self-contained, "real-time" or concurrent, data control and feedback, and the use of GIS and geophysics in tandem with advanced 3D paleo-environmental modeling to target areas of archaeological sensitivity in difficult contexts.
New classes of high speed non-contact 3D recording, single-camera computer-integrated photogrammetry and the first-generation of true-color 3D laser-radar (Lidar), illustrate the ability of modern archaeology to do justice to our cultural resources....to the highest standards, and without compromise to the quality, precision or adequacy of the data.
At the policy level, these strategies demonstrate the ability of modern archaeology to do justice to our dwindling culture history - even in highly dangerous, toxic, radioactive or ordnance-laced environments.
Two examples of emergency rescue archaeology, one a Civil War complex under a contaminated Superfund site, the other a national monument damaged by natural disaster, illustrate the application of a range of applied technology solutions to emergency rescue archaeology in extreme settings.
Multiple categories of, overlapping - and often redundant - applied technology are discussed: all-weather field and laboratory operations, self-contained, "real-time" or concurrent, data control and feedback, and the use of GIS and geophysics in tandem with advanced 3D paleo-environmental modeling to target areas of archaeological sensitivity in difficult contexts.
New classes of high speed non-contact 3D recording, single-camera computer-integrated photogrammetry and the first-generation of true-color 3D laser-radar (Lidar), illustrate the ability of modern archaeology to do justice to our cultural resources....to the highest standards, and without compromise to the quality, precision or adequacy of the data.
At the policy level, these strategies demonstrate the ability of modern archaeology to do justice to our dwindling culture history - even in highly dangerous, toxic, radioactive or ordnance-laced environments.
© 2007 JOEL W. GROSSMAN, Ph.D
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