03304oam 2200673 a 450 991081983460332120240410132511.0979-84-00-63769-80-313-00140-510.5040/9798400637698(CKB)111056486884322(EBL)282754(OCoLC)55109507(SSID)ssj0000134735(PQKBManifestationID)11143432(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000134735(PQKBWorkID)10057055(PQKB)10049772(Au-PeEL)EBL282754(CaPaEBR)ebr10017976(MiAaPQ)EBC282754(OCoLC)1435635537(DLC)BP9798400637698BC(EXLCZ)9911105648688432220000218e20002024 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDangerous places health, safety, and archaeology /editors, David A. Poirier, Kenneth L. Feder1st ed.Westport, Conn. :Praeger,2000.London :Bloomsbury Publishing,20241 online resource (x, 249 pages) illustrations, mapsDescription based upon print version of record.0-89789-632-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; 1 Ticked Off Lyme Disease and Archaeologists; 2 Rabies A Short Discourse; 3 The Fungus Among Us Coccidioidomycosis Valley Fever and Archaeologists; 4 Of Mice and Men What Archaeologists Should Know About Hantavirus and Plague in North America; 5 Histoplasmosis The Poop on Occupational Mycoses in Archaeological Contexts; 6 Nasty Little Things Molds Fungi and Spores; 8 Archaeologists and Parasites The Real Scoop on Poop and Other Worries; 9 Old Cemeteries Arsenic and Health Safety; 10 Former Manufactured Gas Plants and Other Coal Tar Industrial Sites11 Beneath City Streets Brief Observations on the Urban Landscape; 12 Dig Fast Die Young Unexploded Ordnance and Archaeology; 13 Get the Lead Out; 14 Chemical Soup Archaeological Hazards at Western Ore Processing Sites; 15 A Final Forewarning Practical Steps to Providing Archaeologists with Safe Working Environments; IndexA 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.ArchaeologyFieldworkUnited StatesArchaeologyHealth aspectsUnited StatesArchaeologyUnited StatesSafety measuresExcavations (Archaeology)United StatesArchaeologyFieldworkArchaeologyHealth aspectsArchaeologySafety measures.Excavations (Archaeology)930.1/028/9Poirier David A1645682Feder Kenneth L1129939DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910819834603321Dangerous places3992279UNINA