| Description |
1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Ticked off: Lyme disease and archaeologists / Nicholas F. Bellantoni -- Rabies: a short discourse / Tom Morganti and Nan Tartt -- The fungus among us: Coccidioidomycosis ("Valley Fever") and archaeologists / T. Michael Fink and Ken K. Komatsu -- Of mice and men: what archaeologists should know about hantavirus and plague in North America -- Histoplasmosis: The poop on occupational mycoses in archaeological contexts / Rob Ferguson -- Nasty little things: molds, fungi, and spores / Paul S. Sledzik -- Smallpox and other scourges of the dead / Thomas A.J. Christ -- Archaeologists and parasites: the real scoop on poop (and other worries) / Leslie Hunt Driscoll -- Old cemeteries, arsenic, and health safety / John L. Konefes and Michael K. McGee -- Former manufactured gas plants and other coal-tar industrial sites / Allen W. Hatheway -- Beneath city streets: brief observations on the urban landscape / Michael Roberts -- Dig fast, die young: unexploded ordnance and archaeology / Dana C. Linck and Joe W. Vann III -- Get the lead out / Cece Saunders and Susan R. Chandler -- Chemical soup: archaeological hazards at western ore-processing sites / Ronald L. Reno, Stephen R. Bloyd, and Donald L. Hardesty -- A final forewarning: practical steps to providing archaeologists with safe working environments / James C. Garman. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
A discussion of issues in archaeology health and safety. It highlights the broad range of disease vectors and industrial contaminants that lie silently within American soils as well as information for minimizing risk to the archaeologists who excavate in potentially dangerous places. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Archaeology -- Fieldwork -- United States.
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Archaeology -- Fieldwork. |
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United States. |
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Archaeology. |
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Archaeology -- Health aspects -- United States.
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Archaeology -- United States -- Safety measures.
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Industrial safety. |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- United States.
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Archaeology. |
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Occupational Exposure -- prevention & control. |
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Environmental Exposure -- prevention & control. |
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Occupational Health. |
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United States. |
| Indexed Term |
Archaeology-- United States-- Field work. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Poirier, David A.
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Feder, Kenneth L.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dangerous places. Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2001 0897896327 (DLC) 00023726 |
| ISBN |
0313001405 (electronic book) |
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9780313001406 (electronic book) |
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9780897896320 (alkaline paper) |
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0897896327 (alkaline paper) |
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