Environmental archaeology books

339 books were found.

The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth

The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization...

Author: Dianne Dumanoski
ISBN: 9780307396099
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Noted environmental journalist Dumanoski provides a clear-eyed view of the current climate crisis and delivers an...  Read More >>

Ancient Water Technologies

Ancient Water Technologies

Author: L. Mays
ISBN: 9789048186310
Format: Hardback
$340.56

"This unusually wide-ranging text could offer today’s parched world some solutions to the impending crisis in our...  Read More >>

The Archaeology of Environmental Change: Socionatural Legacies of Degradation and Resilience

The Archaeology of Environmental Change: Socionatural...

Author: Christopher T. Fisher ,  J. Brett Hill
ISBN: 9780816526765
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Water management, soil conservation, sustainable animal husbandry…because such socio-environmental challenges have...  Read More >>

Poisonous Plants: A Cultural and Social History

Poisonous Plants: A Cultural and Social History

Author: Robert Bevan-Jones
ISBN: 9781905119219
Format: Paperback
$77.50

The botanical history of Britain and North West Europe has a dark and a light side. Plants have been used as weapons...  Read More >>

Heidegger and the Earth: Essays in Environmental Philosophy

Heidegger and the Earth: Essays in Environmental Philosophy...

Author: Ladelle McWhorter ,  Gail Stenstad
ISBN: 9780802099884
Format: Hardback
$145.00

In this newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Heidegger and the Earth, the contributors approach contemporary...  Read More >>

New Directions in the Skeletal Biology of Greece

New Directions in the Skeletal Biology of Greece

Author: Lynne A. Schepartz ,  Sherry C. Fox
ISBN: 9780876615430
Format: Paperback
$198.00

In addition to including stimulating case studies, ranging in date from the Palaeolithic to modern periods, the...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology

The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology

Author: Barry Cunliffe (University of Oxford, University of Oxford, Emeritus Professor of European Archaeology) ,  Chris Gosden (University of Oxford, University of Oxford, Professor of European Archaeology)
ISBN: 9780199271016
Format: Hardback
$279.00

The Handbook, written by 35 leading experts, provides an authoritative guide to the full range of archaeological...  Read More >>

The Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains

The Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains

Author: Rebecca Gowland ,  Christopher Knusel
ISBN: 9781842173657
Format: Paperback
$103.50

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

Handbook of Landscape Archaeology

Handbook of Landscape Archaeology

Author: Bruno David ,  Julian Thomas
ISBN: 9781598742947
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Over 80 archaeologists from four continents create a benchmark volume of the ideas and practices of landscape archaeology,...  Read More >>

Snails: Archaeology and Landscape Change

Snails: Archaeology and Landscape Change

Author: Paul Davies
ISBN: 9781842173176
Format: Hardback
$211.20

The remains of snails in ancient soils and sediments are one of the most important biological indicators of past...  Read More >>

The Archaeology of Water

The Archaeology of Water

Author: Helen Chapman Davies
ISBN: 9780752447629
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Takes us from the first springs, through Roman baths to the mass storage and distribution of water needed to make...  Read More >>

Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record

Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record

Author: Eileen M. Murphy
ISBN: 9781842173381
Format: Paperback
$93.15

This edited volume contains twelve papers that present evidence on non-normative burial practices from the Neolithic...  Read More >>

Saved from the Grave: Neolithic to Saxon discoveries at Spring Road Municipal Cemetery, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 1990-2000

Saved from the Grave: Neolithic to Saxon discoveries...

Author: T. G. Allen ,  Zena Kamash
ISBN: 9780954962760
Format: Hardback
$45.28

Excavations at Spring Road Municipal Cemetery, Abingdon, Oxfordshire have revealed activity extending from the Mesolithic...  Read More >>

Environmental Archaeology: Approaches, Techniques & Applications

Environmental Archaeology: Approaches, Techniques &...

Author: Keith Wilkinson ,  Chris Stevens
ISBN: 9780752419312
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Environmental Archaeology provides a pragmatic introduction to the subject, taking the reader step-by-step through...  Read More >>

African Ecology and Human Evolution

African Ecology and Human Evolution

Author: Francois Bourliere ,  Francois Bourliere
ISBN: 9780202361369
Format: Paperback
$98.99

The record of man's early evolution, though still fragmentary, is more complete on the African continent than anywhere...  Read More >>

Prehistoric Landscape Development and Human Impact in the Upper Allen Valley, Cranborne Chase, Dorset

Prehistoric Landscape Development and Human Impact in...

Author: Helen Lewis ,  Charles French
ISBN: 9781902937472
Format: Hardback
$155.25

This volume concerns the palaeo-environmental and archaeological investigations of the upper Allen Valley of Cranborne...  Read More >>

Environmental Archaeology in Ireland

Environmental Archaeology in Ireland

Author: Eileen M. Murphy ,  Nicki J. Whitehouse
ISBN: 9781842172742
Format: Paperback
$103.50

This edited volume of 16 papers provides an introduction to the techniques and methodologies, approaches and potential...  Read More >>

Privy to the Past

Privy to the Past

Author: Janet L. Pape ,  Adrian Praetzellis
ISBN: 9781598742992
Format: DVD-ROM
$211.07

Provides an introduction to the goals and methods of historical and urban archaeology. This documentary chronicles...  Read More >>

Dungeness and Romney Marsh: Barrier Dynamics and Marshland Evolution

Dungeness and Romney Marsh: Barrier Dynamics and Marshland...

Author: Antony Long ,  Martyn Waller
ISBN: 9781842172889
Format: Hardback
$77.63

The Romney Marsh / Dungeness Foreland depositional complex comprises an extensive tract of marshland and associated...  Read More >>

Journal of Wetland Archaeology 7 (2007)

Journal of Wetland Archaeology 7 (2007)

Author: Bryony Coles
ISBN: 9781842172797
Format: Paperback
$79.20

The Journal of Wetland Archaeology is the journal of the Wetland Archaeological Research Project (WARP) and the...  Read More >>

The Garden of the World': An historical archaeology of sugar landscapes in the eastern Caribbean

The Garden of the World': An historical archaeology...

Author: Dan Hicks
ISBN: 9781407300467
Format: Paperback
$80.21

Uses the perspectives of what might be termed the 'empirical tradition' of British landscape archaeology that developed...  Read More >>

Fitting Rocks: Lithic Refitting Examined

Fitting Rocks: Lithic Refitting Examined

Author: Marc De Bie ,  Utsav Schurmans
ISBN: 9781407300122
Format: Paperback
$82.80

Features contributions taken from the symposium, Fitting Rocks, the big Puzzle Revisited, held in 2001 at the XIVth...  Read More >>

Economics and social change in Anglo-Saxon Kent, AD 400-900: Landscapes, Communities and Exchange

Economics and social change in Anglo-Saxon Kent, AD...

Author: Stuart Brookes
ISBN: 9781407300160
Format: Paperback
$163.01

This book examines archaeological and historical evidence for the socio-economic organization of the kingdom of...  Read More >>

Two Cemeteries from Bristol's Northern Suburbs

Two Cemeteries from Bristol's Northern Suburbs

Author: Martin Watts
ISBN: 9780955353406
Format: Paperback
$20.57

Two reports are published in this volume: excavations in 2004 at Henbury School, Bristol (by Derek Evans, Neil Holbrook...  Read More >>

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