Environmental archaeology books

340 books were found.

Waterlogged Organic Artefacts: Guidelines on their Recovery, Analysis and Conservation

Waterlogged Organic Artefacts: Guidelines on their Recovery,...

Author: Angela Karsten ,  Karla Graham
ISBN: 9781848025646
Format: Paperback
$58.22

The preservation of waterlogged organic materials has transformed our understanding of the historic environment....  Read More >>

Clifton Quarry, Worcestershire: Pits, Posts and Cereals: Archaeological Investigations 2006–2009

Clifton Quarry, Worcestershire: Pits, Posts and Cereals:...

Author: Robin Jackson ,  Andrew Mann
ISBN: 9781789250114
Format: Hardback
$77.63

Presents new evidence for Neolithic activity in the form of Grooved ware pits with important environmental data,...  Read More >>

Migration and Disruptions: Toward a Unifying Theory of Ancient and Contemporary Migrations

Migration and Disruptions: Toward a Unifying Theory...

Author: Brenda J. Baker ,  Takeyuki Tsuda
ISBN: 9780813064734
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past

The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and...

Author: Walter Scheidel
ISBN: 9780691162560
Format: Hardback
$62.99

With state-of-the-art contributions by scholars who are leaders in their respective fields, this edition describes...  Read More >>

Climate without Nature: A Critical Anthropology of the Anthropocene

Climate without Nature: A Critical Anthropology of the...

Author: Andrew M. Bauer (Stanford University, California) ,  Mona Bhan (DePauw University, Indiana)
ISBN: 9781108423243
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The Anthropocene narrative reproduces an ideological divide between Society and Nature and forecloses an inclusive...  Read More >>

The Gwithian Landscape: Molluscs and Archaeology on Cornish Sand Dunes

The Gwithian Landscape: Molluscs and Archaeology on...

Author: Dr Thomas Walker (Visiting Research Fellow, University of Reading) ,  Rowena Y. Banerjea
ISBN: 9781784918033
Format: Paperback
$98.32

Gwithian, on the north coast of Cornwall, is a multiperiod archaeological site. The present work explores the palaeoenvironment...  Read More >>

Rites aux portes

Rites aux portes

Author: Patrick Maxime Michel
ISBN: 9783034330442
Format: Paperback
$95.22

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Island Historical Ecology: Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean

Island Historical Ecology: Socionatural Landscapes of...

Author: Peter E. Siegel ,  William Balee
ISBN: 9781785337635
Format: Hardback
$276.86

Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural intervention,...  Read More >>

Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon England: Agriculture in the Long Eighth Century

Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon England: Agriculture...

Author: Mark McKerracher
ISBN: 9781911188315
Format: Paperback
$90.54

This fascinating new study shows how farming was transformed, largely under the control of royal, aristocratic and...  Read More >>

Issues and Concepts in Historical Ecology: The Past and Future of Landscapes and Regions

Issues and Concepts in Historical Ecology: The Past...

Author: Carole L. Crumley (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) ,  Tommy Lennartsson
ISBN: 9781108420983
Format: Hardback
$155.22

This volume demonstrates historical ecology's utility for environmental and heritage conservation communities, offering...  Read More >>

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

Pebbles are typically found only on beaches, in the liminal spaces between land and sea. But what happens when pebbles...  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 >>

Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World

Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World

Author: Maren Clegg Hyer (Department of English, Valdosta State University (United States)) ,  Della Hooke
ISBN: 9781786940285
Format: Hardback
$283.33

This study of the waterscapes of the Anglo-Saxon world will assist serious students of the Anglo-Saxon period in...  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 >>

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