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Environmental Archaeology
- If we want to know how humans functioned we must know what their world was like thus environmental reconstruction
- Geomorphical and biological processes occurring around sites, not self contained package.
- Cores from the ocean to extract information about dates
- Ancient winds, from isotopes, helps us see why Vikings stop particular route Polynesian migrations. Storm peacefulness stops and they don't go on to Australia and New Zealand.
- Ephesus Roman town now 5k in land used to be on coast.
- Glaciers when bigger held more water and sea levels decrease, thus exposing land bridges like Baring or north-western Europe human colonization etc.
- Study how much land available during a period
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