Landscape archaeology

The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology seeks to reappraise the place of archaeology in the contemporary world by providing a series of essays that critically engage with both old and current debates in the field of public archaeology.

Despite being one of the most successful branches of mainstream archaeology, wetland archaeology, as an academic discipline, is still relatively unknown.

Parks were prominent and, indeed, controversial features of the medieval countryside, but they have been unevenly studied and remain only partly understood.

Archaeologists have long acknowledged the absence of a regular and recurrent burial rite in the British Iron Age, and have looked to rites such as cremation and scattering of remains to explain the minimal impact of funerary practices on the archaeological record.

The Bronze Age is frequently framed in social evolutionary terms.

The Bronze Age is frequently framed in social evolutionary terms.

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

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

How people engaged with materials such as clay or stone, why people dug features such as pits, why they decorated their bodies, or treated their dead in certain ways, were all meaningful in the African past.

This volume examines prehistoric copper mining in Europe, from the first use of the metal eight thousand years ago in the Balkans to its widespread adoption during the Bronze Age.

In the desert sands of southern Jordan lies a once-hidden conflict landscape along the Hejaz Railway.

In the desert sands of southern Jordan lies a once-hidden conflict landscape along the Hejaz Railway.

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.

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 has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the 'richest historical records we possess', but just how old is it?

The Open Fields of England describes the open-field system of agriculture that operated in Medieval England before the establishment of present-day farms surrounded by hedges or walls.

In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter.

In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter.

This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands.

Making Heritage Together presents a case study of public archaeology by focusing on the collaborative creation of knowledge about the past with a rural community in central Crete.

This book is about the conflict which resolved the Greek-Turkish War of 1919-1922: the Great Offensive.

This book is the coming together of several disciplines under the thematic umbrella of Viking Camps and provides the very latest research presented by the leading researchers in the field, making it the most comprehensive compilation of the phenomenon of Viking camps to date.

The Northumberland Archaeological Group’s (NAG) Wether Hill project spanned the years 1994–2015 and was located on the eponymous hilltop overlooking the mouth of the Breamish Valley in the Northumberland Cheviots.

This book explores the experience of labour for ancient Greek farming communities using historical, archaeological, bioarchaeological, and ethnographic data.

Understanding Cultural Landscapes provides an introduction to the range of approaches characterising the study of landscape and culture.

This book explores the experience of labour for ancient Greek farming communities using historical, archaeological, bioarchaeological, and ethnographic data.

Understanding Cultural Landscapes provides an introduction to the range of approaches characterising the study of landscape and culture.

Hunting and Extinctions in Southwest Asia and North America: The Silent Testimony of Communal Game Traps explores communal game traps for harvesting ungulate herds in two continents, utilizing a comparative approach addressing settings, species, and the hunters' societies.

Hunting and Extinctions in Southwest Asia and North America: The Silent Testimony of Communal Game Traps explores communal game traps for harvesting ungulate herds in two continents, utilizing a comparative approach addressing settings, species, and the hunters' societies.