Introduction
Environmental archaeology encompasses a wide range of scientific methods for analyzing the results of past human activities, environments, climates, and, perhaps most importantly, the relationships between these. Many of these methods are referred to as proxy analyses, denoting the illumination of the past as interpreted through the evidence of fossil organisms or properties. These lines of evidence, or proxy data sources, are assumed to reflect past conditions by way of their dependence on them. For example, crops will only grow within a specific climate range; organic waste will lead to increased soil phosphate levels, and burning increases magnetic susceptibility. While it is easier to store, manage, and analyze the data produced by these methods individually, there is much to be gained from multi-proxy integration at the raw data level. Despite this methodological diversity, the common factors of space, time, and context allow us to compare and integrate the results...
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Buckland, P.I., Eriksson, E.J. (2014). Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD). In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_833
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