Environmental archaeology

European studies of the Bell Beaker phenomenon have concentrated on burial and artefacts that constitute its the most visible aspects.

A detailed consideration of the ways in which human-environment relations altered with the beginnings of agriculture in the Neolithic of northern Europe.

Exploring the difficult and contested sites of deindustrialized society on the brink of transformation to either heritage or wasteland, this volume looks at the creative ways that such sites are (re)used and suggests that they are not always merely abject or abandoned.

Ecosystems today are dynamic and complex, leaving conservationists faced with the paradox of conserving moving targets.

How can nations ensure that buried nuclear waste goes undisturbed for thousands of years?

Economic circularity is the ability of a society to reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products.

This book explores the development of territorial identity in the late prehistoric, Roman, and early medieval periods.

Much archaeological work is concerned with identifying gaps in our knowledge and developing strategies for addressing them; we perhaps spend less time thinking about how research should proceed when we already know, relatively speaking, quite a lot.

Petroglyphic rock art in Mongolia''s Altai Mountains is used to study the intersection of prehistoric culture and paleoenvironment.

This book is about sustainable agriculture and architecture in the past and the engineering works that supported them, but it also looks to the future.

Light has a fundamental role to play in our perception of the world.

Winner of the 2024 Richard Jefferies Award for nature writingShortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on ConservationA Times Science Book of the Year'Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.

Heritage is almost univocally conceived of as valuable and good, something we care for and preserve for ourselves and future generations.

An expanded and improved edition of an established text reflecting recent developments in zooarchaeology.

The Anthropocene narrative reproduces an ideological divide between Society and Nature and forecloses an inclusive politics of global warming.

This book highlights the importance of palynology in understanding floral biodiversity, paleoclimate and depositional environments in deep time and recent sediments.

Ancient Trees in the Landscape is the outcome of many years research into the history of trees in Norfolk, and represents the first detailed, published account of the ancient and traditionally managed trees of any English county.

Most research into humans' impact on the environment has focused on large-scale societies; a corollary assumption has been that small scale economies are sustainable and in harmony with nature.

This book charts and explains how human activities have shaped and altered the development of soils in many parts of the world, taking advantage of five decades of soil analytical work in many archaeological landscapes from around the globe.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of change in long-distance exchange systems during the collapse of Mycenaean Greece.

In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature' and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world.

The great progress which has been made in recent years in the field of the chemical and physical properties of water and the dependence of the life processes on these makes it appear desirable to take water as an environment as the central theme and this subject occupies half the text.

Contemporary public discourses about the ocean are routinely characterized by scientific and environmentalist narratives that imagine and idealize marine spaces in which humans are absent.

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Archaeology often struggles in envisioning real people behind the world of material objects it studies.

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For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate.

It considers research involving archaeological wood in all forms, ranging from fuelwood to ships'' timbers, from sites around the globe.

This conspectus brings together in an accessible and systematic manner a dizzy array of archaeological cultures situated between several worlds.

All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domestication and agricultural origins worldwide.

This study of early cities in Mesoamerica will contribute significantly to the world-wide discourse on early cities and urbanism.

Much has been written on marine fishing and the migratory eel and salmon.

Before the invention of the combine, the binder was an essential harvesting implement that cut grain and bound the stalks in bundles tied with twine that could then be hand-gathered into shocks for threshing.

The Living Inca Town presents a rich case study of tourism in Ollantaytambo, a rapidly developing destination in the southern Peruvian Andes and the starting point for many popular treks to Machu Picchu.

Of all avian groups, birds of prey in particular have long been a prominent subject of fascination in many human societies.

Compares ancient Southwest Arabia with the American West to illustrate revealing similarities and contrasts surrounding water usage.

Focusing on the transitional period of the late Republic to the early Principate, Trees in Ancient Rome offers a sustained examination of the deployment of trees in the ancient city, exploring not only the practicalities of their cultivation, but also their symbolic value.

The remains of snails in ancient soils and sediments are one of the most important biological indicators of past landscapes, and have attracted study for well over a century.

A new perspective on the characterization of islands as distinct physical and social entities.

All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domestication and agricultural origins worldwide.

This book uniquely focuses on all aspects of archaeological soil micromorphology, based upon the authors'' joint sixty years of worldwide studies.

This book investigates the complex relationship between funerary treatment and wider social dynamics through a contextual analysis of human skeletal remains and associated mortuary data from Voudeni, an important Mycenaean (1450–1050 BC) chamber tomb cemetery in Achaea, Greece.

This book charts and explains how human activities have shaped and altered the development of soils in many parts of the world, taking advantage of five decades of soil analytical work in many archaeological landscapes from around the globe.

Heritage is almost univocally conceived of as valuable and good, something we care for and preserve for ourselves and future generations.