Geoarchaeology: The Human-Environmental Approach

Geoarchaeology is traditionally concerned with reconstructing the environmental aspects of past societies using the methods of the earth sciences. The field has been steadily enriched by scholars from a diversity of disciplines and much has happened as the importance of global perspectives on environmental change has emerged. Carlos Cordova, provides a fully up-to-date account of geoarchaeology that reflects the important changes that have occurred in the past four decades. Innovative features include: the development of the human-ecological approach and the impact of technology on this approach
how the diversity of disciplines contributes to archaeological questions
frontiers of archaeology in the deep past, particularly the Anthropocene
the geoarchaeology of the contemporary past
the emerging field of ethno-geoarchaeology
the role of geoarchaeology in global environmental crises and climate change.