Environmental archaeology books

356 books were found.

Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe: The Meuse Region, 1250-1850

Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe: The Meuse...

Author: Sander Govaerts (postdoctoral researcher, Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University)
ISBN: 9781641893985
Format: Hardback
$356.40

A multi-faceted and original study of the complex interactions between armies and their ecosystems, taking a long...  Read More >>

EAA 174: Provisioning Ipswich: Animal Remains from the Saxon and Medieval Town

EAA 174: Provisioning Ipswich: Animal Remains from the...

Author: Pam J. Crabtree
ISBN: 9780956874764
Format: Paperback
$51.75

This volume presents the results of the zooarchaeological analysis of animal bones that were recovered from sixteen...  Read More >>

Themes in Old World Zooarchaeology: From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic

Themes in Old World Zooarchaeology: From the Mediterranean...

Author: Umberto Albarella ,  Cleia Detry
ISBN: 9781789255348
Format: Hardback
$155.25

An overview of cutting-edge research in Old World zooarchaeology.  Read More >>

Earthen Construction Technology: Proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France) Volume 11 Session IV-5

Earthen Construction Technology: Proceedings of the...

Author: Annick Daneels ,  Maria Torras Freixa
ISBN: 9781789697230
Format: Paperback
$82.80

Presents papers from Session IV-5 of the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris, June 2018). The archaeological study...  Read More >>

Monsoon Rains, Great Rivers and the Development of Farming Civilisations in Asia

Monsoon Rains, Great Rivers and the Development of Farming...

Author: Peter D. Clift (Louisiana State University) ,  Jade d'Alpoim Guedes
ISBN: 9781107030084
Format: Hardback
$206.97

A detailed review of variations in the Asian monsoon since the mid-Holocene and its impacts on farming systems....  Read More >>

“Los animales enseñaron el camino…”: La fauna de la Sierra Gorda queretana a través de sus representaciones cerámicas arqueológicas

“Los animales enseñaron el camino…”: La fauna de la...

Author: María Teresa Muñoz Espinosa (Full Time Professor, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia) ,  Jose Carlos Castañeda Reyes
ISBN: 9781789698596
Format: Paperback
$72.45

This volume examines the past fauna of the Sierra Gorda region of Mexico, declared a 'Biosphere Reserve' in 1997...  Read More >>

Bog Bodies: Face to Face with the Past

Bog Bodies: Face to Face with the Past

Author: Melanie Giles (Senior Lecturer)
ISBN: 9781526150189
Format: Paperback
$77.63

Reinterpreting the latest research and discoveries, and featuring a ground-breaking study of Worsley Man, this book...  Read More >>

Cataclysms: An Environmental History of Humanity

Cataclysms: An Environmental History of Humanity

Author: Laurent Testot
ISBN: 9780226609126
Format: Hardback
$62.95

Translation of: Cataclysmes: une histoire environnementale de l'humanitâe.  Read More >>

Elemental Narratives: Reading Environmental Entanglements in Modern Italy

Elemental Narratives: Reading Environmental Entanglements...

Author: Enrico Cesaretti (Associate Professor of Italian Studies, University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9780271087733
Format: Hardback
$217.00

Using an ecomaterialist conceptual framework, addresses interconnected stories from fiction, nonfiction, works of...  Read More >>

Nel regno del fango: speleoarcheologia della Grotta di Polla (Salerno, Italia): Risultati delle prime campagne di scavo

Nel regno del fango: speleoarcheologia della Grotta...

Author: Antonella Minelli (Professor of Prehistoric Anthropology, University of Molise) ,  Sandra Guglielmi (University of Molise)
ISBN: 9781789691221
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This book presents the preliminary results of the archaeological excavations carried out in the Grotta di Polla,...  Read More >>

Going Forward by Looking Back: Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse

Going Forward by Looking Back: Archaeological Perspectives...

Author: Felix Riede ,  Payson Sheets
ISBN: 9781789208641
Format: Hardback
$341.55

This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage...  Read More >>

The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent: Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan

The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent:...

Author: Roger Matthews ,  Wendy Matthews
ISBN: 9781789255263
Format: Hardback
$230.00

Analysis of the transition to sedentary farming in the Fertile Crescent and the establishment of Neolithic culture...  Read More >>

The Future of Nuclear Waste: What Art and Archaeology Can Tell Us about Securing the World's Most Hazardous Material

The Future of Nuclear Waste: What Art and Archaeology...

Author: Rosemary Joyce (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780190888138
Format: Hardback
$66.95

In this book, a contemporary archaeologist critically examines designs experts advising the US government suggested...  Read More >>

An Anthropology of Deep Time: Geological Temporality and Social Life

An Anthropology of Deep Time: Geological Temporality...

Author: Richard D. G. Irvine (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
ISBN: 9781108792226
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Rethinking social theory through a rich engagement with landscape and the history of geology, this book explores...  Read More >>

An Anthropology of Deep Time: Geological Temporality and Social Life

An Anthropology of Deep Time: Geological Temporality...

Author: Richard D. G. Irvine (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
ISBN: 9781108491112
Format: Hardback
$191.48

Rethinking social theory through a rich engagement with landscape and the history of geology, this book explores...  Read More >>

Different Times? Archaeological and Environmental Data from Intra-Site and Off-Site Sequences: Proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France) Volume 4, Session II-8

Different Times? Archaeological and Environmental Data...

Author: Zoï Tsirtsoni ,  Catherine Kuzucuoğlu
ISBN: 9781789696516
Format: Paperback
$82.80

Proceedings from Session II-8 of the XVIII UISPP Congress, Paris, 2018, questioning temporal correlations between...  Read More >>

The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Empires in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World

The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes: A Comparative...

Author: Bleda S. Düring (Universiteit Leiden) ,  Tesse D. Stek (Universiteit Leiden)
ISBN: 9781316639245
Format: Paperback
$95.71

The studies in this volume focus on how rural economies and seemingly peripheral communities were often profoundly...  Read More >>

The Anatomy of Deep Time: Rock Art and Landscape in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia

The Anatomy of Deep Time: Rock Art and Landscape in...

Author: Esther Jacobson-Tepfer (University of Oregon)
ISBN: 9781108790086
Format: Paperback
$43.99

Analysis of Petroglyphic rock art in three valleys of Mongolia's Altai Mountains begins to explain the rhythm of...  Read More >>

Farmers at the Frontier: A Pan European Perspective on Neolithisation

Farmers at the Frontier: A Pan European Perspective...

Author: Kurt J Gron ,  Lasse Sorensen
ISBN: 9781789251401
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Presents various perspectives regarding earliest farming among archaeological cultures and geographic locations...  Read More >>

Social Sustainability, Past and Future: Undoing Unintended Consequences for the Earth's Survival

Social Sustainability, Past and Future: Undoing Unintended...

Author: Sander van der Leeuw (Arizona State University)
ISBN: 9781108498692
Format: Hardback
$217.32

For a professional, educated non-academic audience, this book asks how our societies were caught in a socio-economic...  Read More >>

The Future of Nuclear Waste: What Art and Archaeology Can Tell Us about Securing the World's Most Hazardous Material

The Future of Nuclear Waste: What Art and Archaeology...

Author: Rosemary Joyce (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780190888176
Format: Undefined
$92.40

In this book, a contemporary archaeologist critically examines designs experts advising the US government suggested...  Read More >>

Water Histories and Spatial Archaeology: Ancient Yemen and the American West

Water Histories and Spatial Archaeology: Ancient Yemen...

Author: Michael J. Harrower (The Johns Hopkins University)
ISBN: 9781316500682
Format: Paperback
$80.19

This book offers a new explanation for the spatial-political-environmental dynamics of water and irrigation in the...  Read More >>

Butrint 5: Life and Death at a Mediterranean Port: The Non-Ceramic Finds from the Triconch Palace

Butrint 5: Life and Death at a Mediterranean Port: The...

Author: William Bowden
ISBN: 9781785708978
Format: Hardback
$116.44

This latest volume in the Butrint (Albania) monograph series provides a detailed description and discussion of Roman–medieval...  Read More >>

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