Karin Kindermann, Martin Kehl, Thomas Hauck and Nicole Klasen (eds.)

Inside – Outside: Integrating Cave and Open-Air Archives

This special issue of Quaternary International includes 14 papers presented on the international science meeting “Inside – Outside: Integrating Cave and Open-Air Archives”, which took place from the 6th to the 9th of April 2016 at the University of Cologne. The aim of this meeting was to bring experts from different fields of research, such as archaeology, geography, geology and geophysics, into direct dialog about how to correlate records from caves and open-air sites.

Following the structure of the “Inside – Outside” workshop, the papers in this volume were organized by different thematic aspects, relevant for the topic of integrating archaeological archives from the inside and the outside. In a first section the focus is directed to geoscientific and archaeological methods, whereas the following one is dedicated to geochronological aspects. Both topics should provide a base of reliable correlations between cave sites and open-air sites over time and space. Contributions of the following third part provide more emphasis on different archaeological case studies, which shed light on the dynamics behind patterns of land-use. Last but not least, the final part of this issue intends to explore analytical approaches for data integration and extrapolation of regional findings to a broader spatial scale.

Online version:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/quaternary-international/vol/485/suppl/C

Printed version:
Paperback, size 21.0 x 29.7 cm, 272 pages, many figures (black-and-white and colour)