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Earth sciences and archaeology. PAUL GOLDBERG This article is about a musician. For the hockey player see Paul Goldberg (hockey). Paul Goldberg (born 25 April 1959) is an American jazz/rock/R&B drummer. Goldberg was born in Bethesda, MD. At age seven, relocated to Atlantic City, New Jersey. , VANCE T. HOLLIDAY & C. REID FERRING (ed.). Earthsciences and archaeology. xxi+513 pages, 100 figures, 37 tables. 2001.New York New York, state, United StatesNew York,Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (NY): Kluwer Academic/Plenum; 0-306-46279-6 hardback 83 [poundssterling], US$120 & [European dollar] 126. Seventeen papers with long bibliographies assess the state of theart in Earth sciences and archaeology. Dr HOLLIDAY opens by explainingthat `Archaeology is a Quaternary quaternary/qua��ter��nary/ (kwah��ter-nar?e)1. fourth in order.2. containing four elements or groups.qua��ter��nar��yadj.1. Consisting of four; in fours. science' (p. 22). Withillustrations from all over the world, there follow chapters on siteformation, alluviation (two), surface surveys, and earthquakes (cf.McGUIRE et al. in the previous section), four on soils and sediments,two on techniques of physical analysis and a chapter on geophysicalsurvey (K.L. Kvamme), one on `long-range dating', one on stablecarbon and oxygen isotopes and one on laboratory techniques for sourcingstone. In `A personal view', Prof. Bar-Yosef points out that`scientists ... can be wrong' and recommends `Joint work andpublication' (p. 485) British archaeologists, take heed! WARD & TUNIZ present 16 papers on techniques and conditions forradiometric and other methods of dating rock art (including how toobtain a terminus ante quem from fossil mud-wasp nests!). A Rosenfeldwarns that `the historical meaning of the age ... can only beevaluated' archaeologically (p. 55). There follow six miscellaneoussets of remarks, including two on the ethics of working with Indigenousart (cf. The future of the past in `Americas', below). Biogeochemical approaches too is a survey of the state of the art,most of the 12 chapters based on long bibliographies. They cover isotopevalues (including G.J. van Klinken et al. on causes and effects ofvariation in Europe, M.J. Schoeninger et al. on arid environments, and apaper on preservation of signals in Plio-Pleistocene bones and teeth),chemical preservation in bone, and methods in the study of traceelements Trace elementsA group of elements that are present in the human body in very small amounts but are nonetheless important to good health. They include chromium, copper, cobalt, iodine, iron, selenium, and zinc. Trace elements are also called micronutrients. . There are also two case studies, one of a 19th-century churchcemetery in Ontario, and one, by N.J.v.d. Merwe et al., on evidence forMaya diet in the Classic period.