Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
1: Francesco Menotti and Aidan O Sullivan: General introduction to the Handbook
Part 1: Wetland occupations: a geographical and chronological perspective
Introduction
Europe
2: Francesco Menotti: Wetland occupations in prehistoric Europe
3: Aidan O Sullivan: Europe s wetlands from the Migration Period to the Middle Ages: settlement, exploitation and transformation, AD 400-1500
The Americas
4: Barbara, A. Purdy: Occupations of past wetland environments in the United States
5: Kathryn Bernick: People-wetland interaction in Canada
6: Tim Beach and Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach: Pre-Columbian people and the wetlands in Central and South America
Africa and Asia
7: Peter Mitchell: People and wetlands in Africa
8: Tony, J. Wilkinson: Wetland Archaeology and the role of marshes in the ancient Middle East
9: Yaroslav, V. Kuzmin: The past Eastern Russian wetlands: review of the prehistoric occupation, chronology, economy, and environment
10: Yunfei Zheng: Prehistoric wetland occupations in the Lower regions of Yangtze River, China
11: Akira Matsui and Tomohiro Inoue: Wetland sites in Japan
Oceania
12: Geoffrey Irwin: Wetland occupations in New Zealand
13: Sally Brockwell: Australian wetland occupations before and after the Europeans
14: Chris Ballard, Tim Denham and Simon Haberle: Wetland archaeology in the Highlands of New Guinea
Part 2: Waterlogged archaeological evidence
Introduction
Settlements and habitations
15: Pierre Pétrequin: The Alpine region lake-dwellings
16: Jon Henderson and Robert Sands: Irish and Scottish crannogs
17: Renate Ebersbach: Houses, households and settlements: architecture and living spaces
Material culture
18: Robert Sands: Portable wooden objects from wetlands
19: Madonna, L. Moss: Fishing traps and weirs on the Northwest Coast of North America: new approaches and new insights
20: Jörg Schibler: Bone and antler artefacts in wetland sites
Road networks and transport
21: Richard Brunning and Conor McDermott: Trackways and roads across the wetlands
22: Fiona Haughey: Rivers and lakes: a network of wetland highways
Human bodies
23: Wijnand, A.B. van der Sanden: Bog bodies: underwater burials, sacrifices and executions
Part 3: Survey and excavation
Introduction
Survey
24: Andreas Weller and Andreas Bauerochse: Detecting organic materials in waterlogged sediments
25: Ruth Plets: Underwater survey and acoustic detection and characterisation of archaeological materials
36: Richard Brunning: Archaeological strategies for terrestrial wetland landscapes
Excavation
27: Martin Bell: Intertidal survey and excavation
28: Glen, H. Doran: Excavation of wet sites
Part 4: Multidisciplinary scientific network
Introduction
29: Stefanie Jacomet: Archaebotany: the potential of analyses of plant remains from waterlogged archaeological sites
30: Stephen Davis: Insect analysis in wetland archaeology
31: Ciara Clarke: Palaeoecological reconstructions
32: Charles French: Geoarchaeological and soil micromorphological studies in wetland archaeology
33: Angela Schlumbaum and Ceiridwen J. Edwards: Ancient DNA research on wetland archaeological evidence
34: Michel Magny: Palaeoclimatology and archaeology in the wetlands
Dating methods
35: Tom Higham: Radiocarbon dating of wetland sites
36: Andre Billamboz: Dendrochronology in wetland archaeology
37: Hiroyuki Kitagawa: Lacustrine varve counting as a dating technique: advantages and disadvantages
Part 5: A vulnerable cultural heritage: preservation and conservation
Introduction
Preservation
38: Denis Ramseyer: Preservation against erosion: protecting lake shores and coastal environments
Artefact conservation
39: Dilys Johns: A review of current post-excavation treatment methods for waterlogged organic archaeological materials: the last 20 years
Political actions
40: Adrian Olivier: National and international wetland management policies
41: Dale Croes: Wet Site Archaeology on the Northwest Coast of North America and the Native Communities involvement in Managing their Wetland Heritage Sites
Part 6: Changing research attitude: towards one archaeology
Introduction
42: Robert Van de Noort: Wetland Archaeology in the twenty-first century: adapting to climate change
43: Stijn Arnoldussen: Life history approaches and wetland habitation: a later prehistoric case study from the Dutch delta
44: Mark Harris: Rhythm of wetland life: seasonality and sociality
45: George, P. Nicholas: Towards an Anthropology of Wetland Archaeology: Hunter-Gatherers and Wetlands in Theory and Practice
46: Paolo Bellintani: Long-distance trade routes linked to wetland settlements
47: Kristian Kristiansen: Integrating dry lands and wetlands in late prehistoric farming regimes
48: Peter Bogucki: People, lakes and forest in the Baltic region: a prehistoric perspective
Part 7: Wetland archaeology and the public
Introduction
49: Marc-Antoine Kaeser: Wetland archaeology in the media and the popular literature: beyond the scholarly taboos of the twentieth century, back to the pioneers
50: Urs Leuzinger: Informing the public: bridging the gap between experts and enthusiasts
51: Gunter Schöbel: Museum exhibitions, open-air museums and hands-on archaeology
52: Bettina Arnold: The lake-dwelling diaspora: museums, private collectors and the evolution of ethics in archaeology
Epilogue: Reflections and future perspectives
Introduction
53: Charles, F. W. Higham: The archaeology of wetlands: a personal journey
54: Bryony Coles: Concluding remarks and future perspectives
Index

About the Author

Francesco Menotti is Professor of Archaology at the Institute of Prehistory and Archaeological Science, Basel University. He has been involved in wetland archaeological research for fifteen years, working on various projects in different parts of Europe. His publications include 'The missing period': Middle Bronze Age lake-dwellings in the Alps (2001), Living on the lake in prehistoric Europe (2004), and Wetland Archaeology and Beyond: Theory
and Practice (OUP, 2012).

Dr Aidan O'Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland. He has directed many wetland archaeological projects in estuaries, lakes, rivers and boglands, and is the author of numerous books and papers on wetland archaeology, including The Archaeology of Lake Settlement in Ireland (1998) and Rethinking Wetland Archaeology (2006).

Reviews

Packed with detail but clearly and accessibly written, with generous bibliographies, this is an invaluable reference tool and a worthy addition to any bookshelf.
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