Wet Site Archaeology
Editor(s): Barbara A. Purdy
Year: 1988
Summary
Proceedings of International Conference on Wet Site Archaeology, Gainesville, Florida, December 12-14, 1986. This conference was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and University of Florida.
Wet Site Archaeology identifies the characteristics common to all archaeological wet sites, from Newfoundland to Chile, Polynesia to Florida and from the Late Pleistoscene to the twentieth century. The rewards and responsibilities of recovering unique assemblages from water-saturated deposits are explored. The book discusses topics including innovative excavation and preservation methods; expanded knowledge of past environments, subsistence technologies, artistic expression, skeletal structure and pathologies; and how to determine when enough of a wet site has been sampled. Herculaneum, Hoko River, Hontoon Island, Key Marco, Monte Verde, Ozette, the Somerset levels, Windover, the bog bodies of Northern Europe and the lake dwellers of Switzerland are some of the many famous sites and discoveries described in the this volume.
Cite this Record
Wet Site Archaeology. Barbara A. Purdy. Caldwell, New Jersey: Telford Press. 1988 ( tDAR id: 117420)
Keywords
Investigation Types
Bioarchaeological Research
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Environment Research
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Heritage Management
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Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis
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Reconnaissance / Survey
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Remote Sensing
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Research Design / Data Recovery Plan
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Site Stewardship Monitoring
General
Cultural Development
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Peat Hag
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rainforest archaeology
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Somerset Levels
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Underwater Archaeological Sites
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Waterlogged Wood
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Water-saturated sites (Archaeology)
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Wetlands
Geographic Keywords
Europe (Continent)
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Florida
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French Polynesia
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Herculaneum
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Hoko River
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Huahine Island
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ITALY
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Labrador
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Lake Neuchatel
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Monte Verde
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NETHERLANDS
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Northwest Coast
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Red Bay
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South America (Continent)
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Switzerland
Temporal Keywords
19th Century
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Holocene
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Late Wisconsin
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Middle Ages
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Paleolithic
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contributor(s): Barbara A. Purdy; Elise V. Le Compte; John M. Coles; Richard D. Daugherty; Michel D. Egloff; Reynold J. Ruppe; E. Gary Stickel; Ervan G. Garrison; Bryony Coles; James A. Tuck; Yosihiko H. Sinoto; Dale R. Croes; Sander E. Van Der Leeuw; R. W. Brandt; Tom D. Dillehay; Sara Bisel; David W. Grattan; Marion S. Gilliland; Glen H. Doran; David N. Dickel; Brenda Sigler-Lavelle; William A. Watts; Barbara C. S. Hansen
Sponsor(s): National Endowment for the Humanities; University of Florida; International Conference on Wet Site Archaeology
Record Identifiers
Libraries Australia ID(s): 5669111
NADB document id number(s): 4050165
NADB citation id number(s): 000000074240
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