Wet Site Archaeology

by Barbara A. Purdy

Book Overview

This volume, the result of an International Conference on Wet Site Archaeology funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, explores the rewards and responsibilities of recovering unique assemblages from water-saturated deposits. Characteristics common to all archaeological wet sites are identified from Newfoundland to Chile, Polynesia to Florida, and from the Late Pleistocene to the Twentieth Century. Topics include innovative excavation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0936923075
• ISBN13: 9780936923079
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.