Specialist Services
Environmental archaeology entails ecological, social and economic reconstruction. These themes can be examined in relation to changes through time, changes in activities across sites, evidence of specific activities or events and interaction with the contemporaneous landscape. Archaeological sites are created by human behaviour involving material remains. Sites are altered by a combination of natural and cultural processes. Natural processes include geological and biological activity, such as erosion, sedimentation, frost heave, animal disturbances, plant growth, deposition of biological organisms, and bacterial degradation. Cultural processes include subsistence activities, building, discard or loss of material, manufacture and manufacture waste, recycling, deliberate destruction and resource utilisation. Taphonomy is the study of processes of burial and diagenesis, covering the changes that occur in the formation of the fossil record.
Breakdown of Service:
- Animal Bone Analysis
- Analysis of human remains
- Insects and paleoenvironmental analysis