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Geoarchaeology Lab |
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In the Geoarchaeology lab we focus on
the use of geoarchaeology as a way to investigate the relationships
between humans, their behavior, and the physical environment. At present
our research emphasizes two interrelated themes: 1) long term landscape
history of large, complex alluvial valleys, adjacent tributaries, and
associated landscape features; and 2) mound building, earthwork
construction, and site-specific landscape modification as an indicator
of social processes. We use a variety of methods to pursue our research
projects, including conventional archaeological investigations,
subsurface coring and trenching, sediment analyses (particle size,
loss-on-ignition), microartifact analysis, micromorphology, remote
sensing, and GIS.
Members of the Geoarchaeology Research Group are currently working in the United States, Egypt, Croatia, and Turkey; we cover temporal spans from the Middle Pleistocene to the late Holocene. Our interests include fluvial history, climate change, landscape evolution, soil pedogenesis, and the dynamics of carbonate systems.
Excavations at the South Profile, Mound A, Poverty Point
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