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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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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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