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Table of Contents - Special Paper 476

Geoarchaeology, Climate Change, and Sustainability

Edited by Antony G. Brown, Laura S. Basell, and Karl W. Butzer


Preface
Antony G. Brown, Laura S. Basell, and Karl W. Butzer
v
Acknowledgments
 
vii
1. Geoarchaeology, climate change, sustainability: A Mediterranean perspective
Karl W. Butzer
1
2. The Valdoe: A new Middle Pleistocene locality in the Boxgrove paleolandscape (West Sussex, UK)
Matthew I. Pope and Mark B. Roberts
15
3. The geoarchaeology of Paleolithic rivers of southwest Britain
Laura S. Basell, Antony G. Brown, Robert T. Hosfield, and Phillip S. Toms
23
4. Rolling stones: Understanding river-rolled Paleolithic artifact assemblages
Robert T. Hosfield
37
5. Mapping the landform assemblages and archaeological record of the Lower Khuzestan plain (SW Iran) using remote-sensing and GIS techniques
Laëtitia Dupin
53
6. Geomorphological study and paleogeographic evolution of NW Kefalonia Island, Greece, concerning the hypothesis of a possible location of the Homeric Ithaca
Kalliopi Gaki-Papanastassiou, Hampik Maroukian, Efthimios Karymbalis, and Dimitris Papanastassiou
69
7. Sand dune morphodynamics and prehistoric human occupation in NW Ireland
Jasper Knight and Helene Burningham
81
8. Holocene sedimentation in a pericoastal river system (South Wales, UK): Relationship tosea level, human activity, and coastal sediment flux
Simon K. Haslett
93
9. Environmental change and evidence for Archaic and Woodland floodplain occupation along the lower Nottawasaga River, southern Ontario, Canada
Mary J. Thornbush and Joseph R. Desloges
105
10. Geoarchaeology and archaeological landscapes in the Till River valley, northern England
David G. Passmore, Clive Waddington, Tim van der Schriek, Basil Davis, Emma Tetlow, David Smith, and Jacqui Cotton
117
11. Holocene channel changes and geoarchaeology of the Exe River, Devon, UK, and the floodplain paradox
Jenny A. Bennett, Antony G. Brown, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, and Edward J. Rhodes
135
12. Urban geoarchaeology and sustainability: A case study from Manhattan Island, New York City, USA
Joseph Schuldenrein and Michael Aiuvalasit
153
13. The contribution of English Heritage Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund research to geoarchaeology and sustainability
Ingrid Ward
173
14. Aggregate-related archaeology in England in a changing environment
Antony G. Brown
183