Environmental archaeology books

356 books were found.

Barely Surviving or More than Enough?: The environmental archaeology of subsistence, specialisation and surplus food production

Barely Surviving or More than Enough?: The environmental...

Author: Maaike Groot ,  Daphne Lentjes
ISBN: 9789088904769
Format: Hardback
$349.31

How people produced or acquired their food in the past is one of the main questions in archaeology. Everyone needs...  Read More >>

Megadrought and Collapse: From Early Agriculture to Angkor

Megadrought and Collapse: From Early Agriculture to...

Author: Harvey Weiss (Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Environmental Studies, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Environmental Studies, Yale University)
ISBN: 9780199329199
Format: Hardback
$156.95

Megadrought and Collapse revises the global archaeological and historical record with nine case studies that describe...  Read More >>

The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past

The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past

Author: Timothy J. LeCain (Montana State University)
ISBN: 9781107134171
Format: Hardback
$245.79

Part materialist manifesto, part empirical case study, and part methodological guide, The Matter of History develops...  Read More >>

Landscape in the Longue DuréE: A History and Theory of Pebbles in a Pebbled Heathland Landscape

Landscape in the Longue DuréE: A History and Theory...

Author: Professor Christopher Tilley, Professor of Anthropology & Archaeology, UCL
ISBN: 9781787350823
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Landscape in the Longue Durée is a 4,000 year history of pebbles. It is based on the results of a four-year archaeological...  Read More >>

Landscape in the Longue DuréE: A History and Theory of Pebbles in a Pebbled Heathland Landscape

Landscape in the Longue DuréE: A History and Theory...

Author: Professor Christopher Tilley, Professor of Anthropology & Archaeology, UCL
ISBN: 9781787350830
Format: Hardback
$116.44

Landscape in the Longue Durée is a 4,000 year history of pebbles. It is based on the results of a four-year archaeological...  Read More >>

Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery

Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery

Author: Daniel C. Taylor
ISBN: 9780199469383
Format: Hardback
$42.95

This book is on the author's long search for the Yeti, the mythical mountain man long thought to inhabit the Himalayas....  Read More >>

The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past

The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past

Author: Timothy J. LeCain (Montana State University)
ISBN: 9781107592704
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Part materialist manifesto, part empirical case study, and part methodological guide, The Matter of History develops...  Read More >>

A Story That Stands Like A Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West

A Story That Stands Like A Dam: Glen Canyon and the...

Author: Russell Martin
ISBN: 9781607815679
Format: Paperback
$47.39

In this classic narrative history of the construction of Glen Canyon Dam in the 1950s and 1960s, Russell Martin...  Read More >>

Fishing and Shipwreck Heritage: Marine Archaeology's Greatest Threat?

Fishing and Shipwreck Heritage: Marine Archaeology's...

Author: Dr Sean A. Kingsley (Wreck Watch International, UK)
ISBN: 9781350037069
Format: Paperback
$74.99

For 250 years encrusted wonders have been turning up in fishermen’s nets: everything imaginable from prehistoric...  Read More >>

The Roman Street: Urban Life and Society in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome

The Roman Street: Urban Life and Society in Pompeii,...

Author: Jeremy Hartnett (Wabash College, Indiana)
ISBN: 9781107105706
Format: Hardback
$271.69

By combining textual evidence, comparative historical material, and contemporary urban theory with architectural...  Read More >>

The Give and Take of Sustainability: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Tradeoffs

The Give and Take of Sustainability: Archaeological...

Author: Michelle Hegmon (Arizona State University)
ISBN: 9781107078338
Format: Hardback
$240.61

In this book, anthropologists and archaeologists explore cases from across the world to understand tradeoffs: can...  Read More >>

Woodland in the Neolithic of Northern Europe: The Forest as Ancestor

Woodland in the Neolithic of Northern Europe: The Forest...

Author: Gordon Noble (University of Aberdeen)
ISBN: 9781107159839
Format: Hardback
$240.61

The Neolithic period is one of the great transformations in human history. Yet, few studies focus on how the environment...  Read More >>

Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean

Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric...

Author: Evangelia Kiriatzi ,  Carl Knappett (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781107142435
Format: Hardback
$250.96

This book presents key case studies for human and technological mobility across the eastern Mediterranean in later...  Read More >>

Auf Gedeih Und Verderb: Mensch, Tier Und Umwelt Im Byzantinischen Reich

Auf Gedeih Und Verderb: Mensch, Tier Und Umwelt Im Byzantinischen...

Author: Henriette Baron
ISBN: 9783795432195
Format: Hardback
$42.24

Ein Schlussel zur Umweltgeschichte, bei dem die Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Tier im Mittelpunkt steht  Read More >>

Ancient Plants and People: Contemporary Trends in Archaeobotany

Ancient Plants and People: Contemporary Trends in Archaeobotany...

Author: Marco Madella ,  Carla. Lancelotti
ISBN: 9780816533602
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Offers a timely discussion of the global perspectives on archaeobotany and the rich harvest of knowledge it yields....  Read More >>

Geoarchaeology

Geoarchaeology

Author: Navodita Bhatnagar
ISBN: 9781680958256
Format: Hardback
$437.29

Geoarchaeology combines the methods and concepts of earth sciences to solve problems in archaeology. This book includes...  Read More >>

Water Management Technology as a Contributing Factor in the Development of the Rural Landscape of the Maltese Archipelago: Irrigating a semi-arid landscape

Water Management Technology as a Contributing Factor...

Author: Keith Buhagiar
ISBN: 9781407316291
Format: Paperback
$175.95

This book synthesises archaeological and historical research in order to investigate Maltese water management technology...  Read More >>

The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions: Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes, Dynamic Environments, and Climate Change in the Human Past

The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions: Strategies...

Author: Daniel Contreras
ISBN: 9781138901735
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The impacts of climate change on human societies, and the roles those societies themselves play in altering their...  Read More >>

The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World

The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in...

Author: Bruce M. S. Campbell (Queen's University Belfast)
ISBN: 9781316572801
Format: Undefined
$73.92

A major new account of the fourteenth-century crisis when climate change, disease and a transformation of the military...  Read More >>

The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World

The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in...

Author: Bruce M. S. Campbell (Queen's University Belfast)
ISBN: 9780521144438
Format: Paperback
$80.19

A major new account of the fourteenth-century crisis when climate change, disease and a transformation of the military...  Read More >>

Livestock for Sale: Animal Husbandry in a Roman Frontier Zone

Livestock for Sale: Animal Husbandry in a Roman Frontier...

Author: Maaike Groot
ISBN: 9789462980808
Format: Hardback
$409.20

This book offers the most up-to-date look yet at what has been discovered, using the newest archaeological techniques,...  Read More >>

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