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Botany

Plants and Plant Lore in Ancient Greece
by John Raven
In 1976 John Raven presented four Grey Lectures at Cambridge University which sought to reappraise long-accepted identifications of ancient names for modern plants. These lectures, plus another given in 1971, form the main focus of this book and many of the issues raised within them are discussed further by William Stearn, Nicholas Jardine and Peter Warren, taking account of more research. Also includes an additional two papers by Alice Lindsell, ...
Hardback. Price GB £25.00

Archaeobotany in Hungary: Seed, Fruit, Food and Beverage Remainsin the Carpathian Basin from the Neolithic to the Late Middle Ages
by Ferenc Gyulai
This volume presents an inventory of all seed, fruit and beverage remains from 130 years of excavations in Hungary and stretching back some 8000 years. Ferenc Gyulai's accompanying analysis traces the history of archaeobotanical research in Hungary, reviews methodologies for collecting, processing and identifying finds, and then presents a comprehensive history of agriculture in Hungary. Aside from plant cultivation, the discussion covers types ...
Hardback. Price GB £85.00

Flora: The Aztec Herbal
by Martin Clayton, Luigi Guerrini, and Alejandro de Avila
The album published here is Cassiano's copy of the Codex Badianus, a remarkable herbal of Aztec plants and medicine prepared for the Viceroy of Mexico in 1552 and presented to Cassiano's patron, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, during a papal legation to Spain in 1626. The earliest medical text and herbal known to have been written in the New World, the Codex Badianus was copied on the Cardinal's return to Rome for Cassiano's fellow ...
Hardback. Price GB £115.00

Identification Guide for Near Eastern Grass Seeds
by Mark Nesbitt, illustrated by Jane Goddard
Grasses are of major importance to archaeobotanists and other scholars who investigate the ecology and subsistence of human populations through much of the Old World. Archaeobotanical studies constantly encounter the carbonised grains of grasses, cultivated and wild, but the vast diversity of wild species that are potentially present has made identification of archaeological material a task fraught with difficulties. Based on years of laboratory ...
Paperback. Price GB £52.95

Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape
by Oliver Rackham
First published in 1976, this revised edition is both a comprehensive history of Britain's woodland and a field-work guide that presents trees individually and as part of the landscape. Subtitled `The complete history of Britain's trees, woods and hedgerows', it looks at the generation and changing use of commons and wood pasture, parks and wooded forests, and farms and hedgerows from prehistoric times to the present day. 234p with 38 ...
Paperback. Temporarily out of stock at publishers - will be delayed. Orders will be recorded. Price GB £16.99

Paleoethnobotany
Pearsall, Deborah M.
`A handbook of field sampling and flotation techniques as well as an introduction to methods of analysis'. Chapters are devoted to the recovery and analysis of charred, waterlogged and dried remains recovered by flotation and sieving, to basic techniques of analyzing pollens, and to the recovery and identification of phytoliths. Examples primarily New World, where the author is one of the foremost experts. Hb, 480pp with illus. (2nd ed 2001, ...
Paperback. Price GB £57.50

An Ancient Egyptian Herbal
by Lise Manniche
A selection of 94 recipes and prescriptions for many plants and herbs used in medicine, cooking, and perfumery with ancient and modern Egyptian names, and Coptic and Greek. Based primarily on ancient Egyptian and Coptic written sources, selection being ...
Paperback. Price GB £9.99

Digital Seed Atlas of the Netherlands / Digitale zadenatlas van Nederland
by R.T.J. Cappers, R.M. Bekker and J.E.A. Jans
With over 4000 colour photographs, this atlas represents 1828 taxa and includes the wild plants of the Netherlands, the adventitious plants and the cultivated plants that have gone wild. The seed atlas presents a unique picture of the variation and the ...
Hardback. Price GB £168.00

plants and Diet in Greece from Neolithic to Classic Periods
by Fragkiska Megaloudi
Paperback. Price GB £28.00

Holocene Vegetation History in the Territory of Sagalassos (Southwest Turkey): A Palynological Approach
by M. Vermoere
This study gives a broad picture of the vegetation history in the territory of Sagalassos during the Holocene based on pollen-analysis of cores taken from various Quaternary deposits in the area. The fossil pollen data are interpreted by using modern ...
Paperback. Price GB £85.00