The Oxford Handbook of Wetland Archaeology

by Francesco Menotti (Editor), Aidan O'Sullivan (Editor)

Overview

The Oxford Handbook of Wetland Archaeology is the most comprehensive survey of global wetland archaeology ever published. Well known for the spectacular quality of its surviving evidence, from both an archaeological and environmental perspective, wetland archaeology enables scholars to investigate and reconstruct past people's dwellings, landscapes, material culture, and daily lives in great detail. Through concise essays written by some of the world's leading scholars in the field, this Handbook describes the key principles, methodologies, and revealing results of past and present archaeological investigations of wetland environments. The volume provides unique insights into past human interactions with lakes, bogs, rivers, and coastal marshlands across the world from prehistory to modern times. Opening with a detailed introduction by the editors, the Handbook is divided into seven parts and contains 54 essays and over 230 photographs, figures, maps, and graphs.

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ISBN-13:	9780191626180
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	12/20/2012
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
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About the Author

Francesco Menotti is Professor of Archaology at the Institute of Prehistory and Archaeological Science, Basel University. He has been involved in wetland archaeological research for fifteen years, working on various projects in different parts of Europe. His publications include 'The missing period': Middle Bronze Age lake-dwellings in the Alps (2001), Living on the lake in prehistoric Europe (2004), and Wetland Archaeology and Beyond: Theory and Practice (OUP, 2012). Dr Aidan O'Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland. He has directed many wetland archaeological projects in estuaries, lakes, rivers and boglands, and is the author of numerous books and papers on wetland archaeology, including The Archaeology of Lake Settlement in Ireland (1998) and Rethinking Wetland Archaeology (2006).

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• 1: Francesco Menotti and Aidan O Sullivan: General introduction to the Handbook
• Part 1: Wetland occupations: a geographical and chronological perspective
• Introduction
• Europe
• 2: Francesco Menotti: Wetland occupations in prehistoric Europe
• 3: Aidan O Sullivan: Europe s wetlands from the Migration Period to the Middle Ages: settlement, exploitation and transformation, AD 400-1500
• The Americas
• 4: Barbara, A. Purdy: Occupations of past wetland environments in the United States
• 5: Kathryn Bernick: People-wetland interaction in Canada
• 6: Tim Beach and Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach: Pre-Columbian people and the wetlands in Central and South America
• Africa and Asia
• 7: Peter Mitchell: People and wetlands in Africa
• 8: Tony, J. Wilkinson: Wetland Archaeology and the role of marshes in the ancient Middle East
• 9: Yaroslav, V. Kuzmin: The past Eastern Russian wetlands: review of the prehistoric occupation, chronology, economy, and environment
• 10: Yunfei Zheng: Prehistoric wetland occupations in the Lower regions of Yangtze River, China
• 11: Akira Matsui and Tomohiro Inoue: Wetland sites in Japan
• Oceania
• 12: Geoffrey Irwin: Wetland occupations in New Zealand
• 13: Sally Brockwell: Australian wetland occupations before and after the Europeans
• 14: Chris Ballard, Tim Denham and Simon Haberle: Wetland archaeology in the Highlands of New Guinea
• Part 2: Waterlogged archaeological evidence
• Introduction
• Settlements and habitations
• 15: Pierre Pétrequin: The Alpine region lake-dwellings
• 16: Jon Henderson and Robert Sands: Irish and Scottish crannogs
• 17: Renate Ebersbach: Houses, households and settlements: architecture and living spaces
• Material culture
• 18: Robert Sands: Portable wooden objects from wetlands
• 19: Madonna, L. Moss: Fishing traps and weirs on the Northwest Coast of North America: new approaches and new insights
• 20: Jörg Schibler: Bone and antler artefacts in wetland sites
• Road networks and transport
• 21: Richard Brunning and Conor McDermott: Trackways and roads across the wetlands
• 22: Fiona Haughey: Rivers and lakes: a network of wetland highways
• Human bodies
• 23: Wijnand, A.B. van der Sanden: Bog bodies: underwater burials, sacrifices and executions
• Part 3: Survey and excavation
• Introduction
• Survey
• 24: Andreas Weller and Andreas Bauerochse: Detecting organic materials in waterlogged sediments
• 25: Ruth Plets: Underwater survey and acoustic detection and characterisation of archaeological materials
• 36: Richard Brunning: Archaeological strategies for terrestrial wetland landscapes
• Excavation
• 27: Martin Bell: Intertidal survey and excavation
• 28: Glen, H. Doran: Excavation of wet sites
• Part 4: Multidisciplinary scientific network
• Introduction
• 29: Stefanie Jacomet: Archaebotany: the potential of analyses of plant remains from waterlogged archaeological sites
• 30: Stephen Davis: Insect analysis in wetland archaeology
• 31: Ciara Clarke: Palaeoecological reconstructions
• 32: Charles French: Geoarchaeological and soil micromorphological studies in wetland archaeology
• 33: Angela Schlumbaum and Ceiridwen J. Edwards: Ancient DNA research on wetland archaeological evidence
• 34: Michel Magny: Palaeoclimatology and archaeology in the wetlands
• Dating methods
• 35: Tom Higham: Radiocarbon dating of wetland sites
• 36: Andre Billamboz: Dendrochronology in wetland archaeology
• 37: Hiroyuki Kitagawa: Lacustrine varve counting as a dating technique: advantages and disadvantages
• Part 5: A vulnerable cultural heritage: preservation and conservation
• Introduction
• Preservation
• 38: Denis Ramseyer: Preservation against erosion: protecting lake shores and coastal environments
• Artefact conservation
• 39: Dilys Johns: A review of current post-excavation treatment methods for waterlogged organic archaeological materials: the last 20 years
• Political actions
• 40: Adrian Olivier: National and international wetland management policies
• 41: Dale Croes: Wet Site Archaeology on the Northwest Coast of North America and the Native Communities involvement in Managing their Wetland Heritage Sites
• Part 6: Changing research attitude: towards one archaeology
• Introduction
• 42: Robert Van de Noort: Wetland Archaeology in the twenty-first century: adapting to climate change
• 43: Stijn Arnoldussen: Life history approaches and wetland habitation: a later prehistoric case study from the Dutch delta
• 44: Mark Harris: Rhythm of wetland life: seasonality and sociality
• 45: George, P. Nicholas: Towards an Anthropology of Wetland Archaeology: Hunter-Gatherers and Wetlands in Theory and Practice
• 46: Paolo Bellintani: Long-distance trade routes linked to wetland settlements
• 47: Kristian Kristiansen: Integrating dry lands and wetlands in late prehistoric farming regimes
• 48: Peter Bogucki: People, lakes and forest in the Baltic region: a prehistoric perspective
• Part 7: Wetland archaeology and the public
• Introduction
• 49: Marc-Antoine Kaeser: Wetland archaeology in the media and the popular literature: beyond the scholarly taboos of the twentieth century, back to the pioneers
• 50: Urs Leuzinger: Informing the public: bridging the gap between experts and enthusiasts
• 51: Gunter Schöbel: Museum exhibitions, open-air museums and hands-on archaeology
• 52: Bettina Arnold: The lake-dwelling diaspora: museums, private collectors and the evolution of ethics in archaeology
• Epilogue: Reflections and future perspectives
• Introduction
• 53: Charles, F. W. Higham: The archaeology of wetlands: a personal journey
• 54: Bryony Coles: Concluding remarks and future perspectives
• Index