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Earthquake archeology
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Ever since man-made structures have been erected, earthquakes have left their marks on these constructions. However, damages in archaeologically excavated buildings or continuously preserved monuments are often hard to unravel in terms of the causative effects. The use of archaeological data to investigate unknown or poorly known historical earthquakes and descriptions of earthquake effects recorded in the archaeological heritage started in the nineteenth and early twentieth century (e.g., De Rossi, 1874; Schliemann, 1881; Evans, 1928). Since the 1980s, the increased interest in the subject led to the publication of special volumes and...
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Hinzen, KG. (2011). Archaeoseismology. In: Gupta, H.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8702-7_206
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