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About the Authors Paul Goldberg is a geologist, Affiliated Professor of Geoarchaeology and Senior Researcher in the Institute of Archaeological Science (INA) at the University of Tbingen, and Visiting Professorial Fellow (Centre for Archaeological Science), University of Wollongong. He has carried out geoarchaeological research extending from Quaternary landscapes and archaeological sites in the Near East, California, and Texas, to cave sediments in China, South Africa, Europe, Russia, Indonesia, and the USA. Richard I. Macphail is a Senior Research Fellow at University College London, investigating archaeological sediments, soils, and occupation deposits across Europe, especially Scandinavia and also provides some worldwide examples. He was a researcher for English Heritage for 20 years, and was Professor Invit at Universit de Tours. Chris Carey is a geoarchaeologist and archaeological scientist, and is currently a Principal Lecturer at the University of Brighton, where he is a specialist in remote sensing and mapping. Yijie Zhuang is Associate Professor at Institute of Archaeology, University College London, who has added to numerous studies of Far Eastern sites. Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 – Introduction Chapter 2 – Sediments Chapter 3 – Stratigraphy Chapter 4 – Soils Chapter 5 – Slopes and slope deposits Chapter 6 – Rivers (Y. Zhuang, Goldberg, P and Macphail, R. I.) Chapter 7 – Lakes (Y. Zhuang, Goldberg, P and Macphail, R. I.) Chapter 8 – Aeolian settings (C. Carey, Goldberg, P and Macphail, R. I.) Chapter 9 – Marine Coasts Chapter 10 – Caves and Rock shelters Chapter 11 – Human impact: Changes to the Landscape on landscape Chapter 12 – Human Use of materials Chapter 13 – Anthropogenic Deposits Chapter 14 – Experimental and Ethno- Geoarchaeology Chapter 15 – Geoarchaeology in Forensic Science and Mortuary Archaeology Chapter 16 – Field-based methods: Documenting Context (C. Carey, Goldberg, P and Macphail, R. I.) Chapter 17 – Laboratory Techniques Chapter 18 – Reporting and publishing Chapter 19 – Concluding remarks and the geoarchaeological future Appendices Index
