The first textbook of geoarchaeology provides an excellent introduction to a multifaceted discipline that leans toward archaeology as well as physical geography and other earth sciences. The overview of the broad methodological diversity of geoarchaeology makes this book a reliable reference for students, researchers, and practitioners. It is therefore an indispensable tool for all who deal with questions of environmental and cultural history.

Geoarchaeological issues are among the most popular topics within the disciplines involved. By deciphering geoarchives using modern dating and analysis methods and interdisciplinary approaches, it is possible to locate past cultures within their environment and reconstruct past landscapes. Especially in the age of global change, it seems all the more important to understand conditions, processes and dynamics of the past, not least in order to be able to apply insights gained to future developments.

The book was compiled by scientists from more than 30 different university institutes, government agencies and research institutions. The editors are spokespersons for the Geoarchaeology Working Group, which was founded in 2004. Their more than 70 co-authors are among the most knowledgeable experts on their topics in the German-speaking world and beyond.

The editors

Christian Stolz  is a geographer and geomorphologist and teaches as an adjunct professor at the European University of Flensburg and at the universities of Mainz and Rostock.

Christopher E. Miller is a professor at the Institute of Natural History Archaeology at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen and is affiliated with the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment in Tübingen and the SFF Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour in Bergen (Norway).