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The Geoarchaeology of Lake Michigan Coastal Dunes.
Complex sets of environmental factors have interacted over the past 5,000 years to affect how changes in climate, temperature, relative precipitation, and the levels of Lake Michigan influence the preservation of archaeological sites in coastal sand dunes along Lake Michigan. As a collaboration betw...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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East Lansing, MI :
Michigan State University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Environmental research series (East Lansing, Mich.) ;
no. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: The Geoarchaeology of Lake Michigan Coastal Dunes; 2. The Archaeology of the Lake Michigan Coastal Zone: A Perspective from the Coastal Dunes; 3. Coastal Dunes, Eolian Processes, and Activation-Stabilization Cycles; 4. Middle and Late Holocene Lake-Level Variation, Isostatic Rebound, and Environmental Changes in the Upper Great Lakes; 5. Archaeological Sites in Dune Contexts around Lake Michigan.
- 6. Discussion and Synthesis of the Processes and Timing of Dune Formation and Archaeological Site Burial in Coastal Settings of Lake Michigan7. The U.S. 31 Case Study: Torch Bay to South Point; Appendix A. Description of Methods Employed; Appendix B. Tables of Radiocarbon and OSL Dates; Appendix C. Descriptions of Sample Locales; References; Index.