Environmental archaeology

The Oxford Handbook of Wetland Archaeology is the most comprehensive survey of global wetland archaeology ever published.

The fourteen papers in this volume focus on the environmental archaeology of Britain, uncovering a rich seam of evidence from what might, to the uninitiated, seem like the most unlikely places.

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.

Presents a thematic collection of papers dealing with the Stone Age and Bronze Age archaeology of the Ionian Sea, situated off the south western Balkan peninsula.

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

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

Examines the archaeology of landscapes, environments, and rural communities that constituted the transformative Archaic period on Cyprus.

Human migration tends to involve more than the odd suitcase or two - we often carry other organisms on our travels, some are deliberately transported, others move by accident.

Maritime communications have played a vital role in shaping both human cultures and the biogeography of the North Atlantic Realm, a region containing discrete groups of islands separated by deep water.

This edited volume of 16 papers provides an introduction to the techniques and methodologies, approaches and potential of environmental archaeology within Ireland.

Human bones form the most direct link to understanding how people lived in the past, who they were and where they came from.

It is beyond doubt that the climate is changing, presenting us with one of the biggest challenges in the twenty-first-century.

Between 2006 and 2009 Worcestershire Archaeology completed a series of investigations in advance of quarrying at Clifton Quarry, Worcestershire revealing one of the most important sequences of prehistoric to early medieval activity discovered to date from the Central Severn Valley.

The Oxford Handbook of Wetland Archaeology is the most comprehensive survey of global wetland archaeology ever published.

'One of the finest writers of historical fiction in the world' BEN KANETHE BRAND NEW MEDIEVAL ADVENTURE FROM THE MASTER OF HISTORICAL FICTION1368.

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.

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

The West Midlands is a region of geographical, topographical and geological contrasts, forming disparate landscapes that are reflected in the nature and diversity of its rich archaeology.

This book has re-visited two distinctive patterns, namely pottery and millet, the movement of both of which conflict with conventional narratives concerning prehistoric trans-Eurasian exchange.

This edited volume contains twelve papers that present evidence on non-normative burial practices from the Neolithic through to Post-Medieval periods and includes case studies from some ten countries.

The first book on the origin of clothes shows why climate change was crucial - for the origin of agriculture too.

The West Midlands is a region of geographical, topographical and geological contrasts, forming disparate landscapes that are reflected in the nature and diversity of its rich archaeology.

Major account of the fourteenth-century crisis which saw a series of famines, revolts and epidemics transform the medieval world.

Southern Anthropological Society James Mooney AwardAn archaeological study of Florida's springs that shows the importance of springs to Florida's people over thousands of years.

Peatlands are regarded as having exceptional archaeological value, due to the fact the waterlogged conditions of these wetlands can preserve organic remains that are almost entirely lost from the majority of dryland contexts.

This edited volume of 16 papers provides an introduction to the techniques and methodologies, approaches and potential of environmental archaeology within Ireland.

Major account of the fourteenth-century crisis which saw a series of famines, revolts and epidemics transform the medieval world.

In einer sich urbanisierenden Welt gilt die Stadt als Leitbild und Ma aller Dinge.

Human migration tends to involve more than the odd suitcase or two - we often carry other organisms on our travels, some are deliberately transported, others move by accident.

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

Examines the archaeology of landscapes, environments, and rural communities that constituted the transformative Archaic period on Cyprus.

Life in Medieval Landscapes presents new studies on key themes in the economic and social history of the medieval landscape.

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology presents theoretical discussions, methodological outlines, and case-studies describing the field of overlap between historical ecology and the emerging sub-discipline of applied archaeology to highlight how modern environments and landscapes have been shaped by humans.

This new collection of papers from leading experts provides an overview of cutting-edge research in Old World zooarchaeology.

'Utterly extraordinary .

Nuestro interes por el ser humano nos ha llevado a desarrollar una serie de trabajos y planteamientos que nos permiten delimitar que es la humanidad y como esta evoluciona en el marco de la ecologia planetaria.

A lively and authoritative investigation into the lives of our ancestors, based on the revolution in the field of Bronze Age archaeology which has been taking place in Norfolk and the Fenlands over the last twenty years, and in which the author has played a central role.

Este libro es el resultado de la investigación más completa que se haya hecho sobre la serranía de Chiribiquete y el tesoro ancestral que alberga.

DEEP JUNGLE is an exploration of the most alien and feared habitat on Earth.

The volume of Springer Proceedings in Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy contains selected papers presented at the 10th Geoarchaeology Conference, which took place during September 18-21, 2023, at the South Urals Federal Research Center, the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Miass, Russia.

In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors.

The volume of Springer Proceedings in Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy contains selected papers presented at the 10th Geoarchaeology Conference, which took place during September 18-21, 2023, at the South Urals Federal Research Center, the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Miass, Russia.

Summary of Lab Girl by Hope Jahren | Includes Analysis Preview:In her memoir Lab Girl, Hope Jahren describes the life she s lived and the knowledge she s learned as a scientist trying to find her way in the world.

Las "reservas de biosfera" han sido establecidas por la unesco como áreas de conservación in situ, creadas a partir de la necesidad de conservar la biodiversidad al mismo tiempo que los países se desarrollan de manera sostenible.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Geschichte der Sintflut und entdecken Sie die verborgenen Geheimnisse hinter diesem zeitlosen Mythos.