Dangerous places : health, safety, and archaeology
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : David A Poirier; Kenneth L Feder
- ناشر : Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2001
- شابک / ISBN : 9780313001406
Description
Introduction vii David A. Poirier and Kenneth L. Feder I Biological Hazards 1 Ticked Off: Lyme Disease and Archaeologists 3 Nicholas F. Bellantoni 2 Rabies: A Short Discourse 11 Tom Morganti and Nan Tartt 3 The Fungus Among Us: Coccidioidomycosis (“Valley Fever”) and Archaeologists 21 T. Michael Fink and Ken K. Komatsu 4 Of Mice and Men: What Archaeologists Should Know About Hantavirus and Plague in North America 31 T. Michael Fink 5 Histoplasmosis: The Poop on Occupational Mycoses in Archaeological Contexts 55 Rob Ferguson 6 Nasty Little Things: Molds, Fungi, and Spores 71 Paul S. Sledzik vi Contents 7 Smallpox and Other Scourges of the Dead 79 Thomas A. J. Crist 8 Archaeologists and Parasites: The Real Scoop on Poop (and Other Worries) 107 Leslie Hunt Driscoll II America’s Colonial and Industrial Legacy 9 Old Cemeteries, Arsenic, and Health Safety 127 John L. Konefes and Michael K. McGee 10 Former Manufactured Gas Plants and Other Coal-Tar Industrial Sites 137 Allen W. Hatheway 11 Beneath City Streets: Brief Observations on the Urban Landscape 157 Michael Roberts 12 Dig Fast, Die Young: Unexploded Ordnance and Archaeology 169 Dana C. Linck and Joe W. Vann III 13 Get the Lead Out 189 Cece Saunders and Susan R. Chandler 14 Chemical Soup: Archaeological Hazards at Western Ore- Processing Sites 205 Ronald L. Reno, Stephen R. Bloyd, and Donald L. Hardesty 15 A Final Forewarning: Practical Steps to Providing Archaeologists with Safe Working Environments 221 James C. Garman Index 235 Contributors 247
