Environmental archaeology

Shows how archaeologists gain knowledge about past ontologies, and explores the role that birds played in Bronze Age economy, ritual and religion.

A novel, integrated approach to understanding long-term human history, viewing it as the long-term evolution of human information-processing.

Money and market prices obscure an unequal global exchange of resources, which is a prerequisite to what we perceive as technological progress.

Outlines the ecological fundamentals, assumptions, and techniques for reconstructing past environments using fossil animals from archaeological and paleontological sites.

Outlines the ecological fundamentals, assumptions, and techniques for reconstructing past environments using fossil animals from archaeological and paleontological sites.

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

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

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

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

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

This book presents a practical, holistic research framework to help us both understand our past and build an appealing human future.

This book presents a practical, holistic research framework to help us both understand our past and build an appealing human future.

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

The Matter of History links the history of people with the history of things through a bold new materialist theory of the past.

The Matter of History links the history of people with the history of things through a bold new materialist theory of the past.

In this book, ethnographical and archaeological perspectives on tradeoffs help the reader to think about hard choices, and how to make better decisions today and tomorrow.

In this book, ethnographical and archaeological perspectives on tradeoffs help the reader to think about hard choices, and how to make better decisions today and tomorrow.

This book examines the poorly understood transformations in rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires.

The first richly illustrated worldwide portrayal of urban ecology, tying together organisms, built structures, and the physical environment around cities.

The first richly illustrated worldwide portrayal of urban ecology, tying together organisms, built structures, and the physical environment around cities.

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

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

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

A detailed review of climate change and its impacts on farming systems since the Neolithic, including anticipated future changes.

Authoritative and essential guide to methods interpreting the ecology of archaeological sites, and their applications.

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

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.

Through a presentation of the oldest rock art dated in the Americas, located in Monte Alegre, Brazil, this book analyzes an ancient ecological-astronomy strategy that theoretically made the rapid human migration in the Americas successful.