Digging for Indigenous Knowledge: ‘reverse engineering’ and stratigraphic sequencing as a potential archaeological contribution to sustainability assessments.

Daryl Stump

Digging for Indigenous Knowledge: ‘reverse engineering’ and stratigraphic sequencing as a potential archaeological contribution to sustainability assessments.

Archaeology

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Abstract

Stratigraphic excavation is perhaps the defining technique of archaeological research, since it is this approach that provides the necessary contextual information for all other forms of archaeological sampling. Rightly perceived as intensive in terms of labour, time, and resources, excavation seems at odds with the aims of developmental interventions that are often under pressure to produce rapid and sustainable solutions to immediate and on-going environmental and human crises. Drawing on research in eastern Africa, this chapter will argue that some questions of relevance to developmental and conservationist debates can nevertheless only be answered through detailed stratigraphic data, and that these data are essential in order to construct models of landscape change and to assess the sustainability and resilience of these landscapes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology
Editors	Christian Isendahl, Daryl Stump
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Print)	9780199672691
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Name	Oxford Handbooks
Publisher	Oxford University Press

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Stump, D. (2016). Digging for Indigenous Knowledge: ‘reverse engineering’ and stratigraphic sequencing as a potential archaeological contribution to sustainability assessments. In C. Isendahl, & D. Stump (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672691.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199672691

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Stump, D 2016, Digging for Indigenous Knowledge: ‘reverse engineering’ and stratigraphic sequencing as a potential archaeological contribution to sustainability assessments. in C Isendahl & D Stump (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology. Oxford Handbooks, Oxford University Press, Oxford. <http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672691.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199672691>

Digging for Indigenous Knowledge: ‘reverse engineering’ and stratigraphic sequencing as a potential archaeological contribution to sustainability assessments. / Stump, Daryl.
The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology. ed. / Christian Isendahl; Daryl Stump. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. (Oxford Handbooks).

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