Contributions in Quaternary Vertebrate Paleontology: A Volume in Memorial to John E. Guilday, Hugh H. Genoways and Mary R. Dawson, Eds., 1984, Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 8, $56.00 (cloth)
✍ Scribed by Joseph Schuldenrein
- Book ID
- 102224052
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 271 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0883-6353
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✦ Synopsis
its" which include colluvium, mudslides, avalanche debris, boulder fields, and so on. Cave (speleal) deposits, of particular interest to geoarchaeologists, unfortunately get short shrift; admittedly, they could hardly be shown on a national map. There are no entries on anthropogenic deposits or middens. Despite such minor shortcomings, the volume could well serve as a standard text book for archaeologists, who need an introduction to geology but do not require in-depth knowledge of hardrock petrology or pre-Quaternary stratigraphy. Hunt provides enough dynamic geomorphology to explain how the deposits got there, but does not spend more than half a page on the geologic time scale. That would probably call for another volume.