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Dangerous places : health, safety, and archaeology

Author: David A Poirier; Kenneth L Feder
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Dangerous places.
Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2001
(OCoLC)606402957
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David A Poirier; Kenneth L Feder
ISBN: 0897896327 9780897896320
OCLC Number: 43615357
Description: x, 249 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by David A. Poirier and Kenneth L. Feder.

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