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Environmental Reconstruction in Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology
edited by P Leveau, Frédéric Trément, Kevin Walsh and Graeme Barker
Contents include: Introduction (K Walsh); Palynology (S Bottema); A database for the palynological recording of human activity (V Andrieu, E Brugiapaglia, R Cheddadi, M Reille and J-L de Beaulieu); The contribution of anthracology (J-L Vernet); Dendroclimatology (F Guibal); Techniques in Landscape Archaeology (A G Brown); L'apport de la micromorphologie des sols (N Fédoroff); Reconstructing ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$90.00, Our Price US$29.98

Beavers in Britain's Past
by Bryony Coles
Part ecology, part archaeology and part history, Beavers in Britain's Past explores the evidence for Castor fiber, the European beaver from late in the last ice age to the time of its extinction from Britain's native fauna. The first chapters introduce the beaver and its habitats in western Europe, where it is now flourishing. Based on original field survey in Brittany and southeastern France, the characteristic structures and ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$80.00, Our Price US$29.98

Past Bodies: Body-Centered Research in Archaeology
edited by Dusan Boric and John Robb
Archaeology often struggles in envisioning real people behind the world of material objects it studies. Even when dealing with skeletal remains archaeologists routinely reduce them to long lists of figures and attributes. Such a fragmentation of past subjects and their bodies, if analytically necessary, is hardly satisfactory. While material culture is the main archaeological proxy to real people in the past, the absence of past bodies has been ...
Hardback. Price US$60.00

Zooarchaeology
by Elizabeth J. Reitz and Elizabeth A. Wing
Bang-up-to-date, this new textbook is sure to become THE text for undergraduates zooarchaeology courses. Unlike most of its predecessors, it covers both vertebrate and invertebrate classes, outlining methods for their identification and concentrating on detecting the relationship in antiquity between humans and animals. The examples range from the Pleistocene to the nineteenth century and are taken from sites worldwide. The chapters include basic ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$60.00, Our Price US$24.98

Shells
by Cheryl Claassen
This book contains everything students and professional archaeologists could possibly want to know about the practicalities of shell analysis in archaeology, as well as the biology of freshwater and marine molluscs. The author also, however, discusses the potential of this class of evidence to tell us surprising things about seasonal patterns of life, the woods around a long-forgotten burial mound and the swirling patterns of life which circled ...
Paperback. Price US$51.00

Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record
edited by Eileen M Murphy
This edited volume contains twelve papers that present evidence on non-normative burial practices from the Neolithic through to Post-Medieval periods and includes case studies from some ten countries. It has long been recognised by archaeologists that certain individuals in a variety of archaeological cultures from diverse periods and locations have been accorded differential treatment in burial relative to other members of their society. These ...
Paperback. Price US$60.00

Snails: Archaeology and Landscape Change
by Paul Davies
The remains of snails in ancient soils and sediments are one of the most important biological indicators of past landscapes, and have attracted study for well over a century. In spite of this, the only English-language textbook was published in 1972 and is long since out of print. Snails provides a comprehensive, up to date reference text on the use of snails as indicators of past environments in Quaternary landscape studies and archaeology. It ...
Hardback. Price US$80.00

Shell Middens in Atlantic Europe
edited by Nicky Milner, Oliver E Craig and Geoffrey N Bailey
The archaeological investigation of shell middens has a long and rich history. By the mid 1830s, the presence of artefacts found with large accumulations of shell along the Danish coast had successfully demonstrated that these sites were the result of human activity rather than natural processes. At about the same time in other parts of Europe, shell middens were also being discovered and written about - a process which continued throughout ...
Paperback. Price US$70.00

Hedgerow History: Ecology, History and Landscape Character
by Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson
From the Scots pine windbreaks of the Brecklands to the ancient earth and stone banks of the West Country, hedges are an essential component of regional landscape character. A working knowledge of them is an essential part of every landscape historian's toolkit. This book brings our understanding of their history up to date.

Drawing upon a unique computerised analysis of hedges in Norfolk, the authors explore how hedges came into ...
Paperback. Price US$35.00

Enduring Records: The Environmental and Cultural Heritage of Wetlands
edited by Barbara Purdy
In rare cases prehistoric peoples and/or their most fragile creations endure when they become accidentally or intentionally entombed in environments that have remained constantly wet, dry, or frozen. These conditions protect them from decay. The finds are particularly informative when skeletons retain flesh, internal organs, and clothes, and when they are accompanied by items of personal adornment or weaponry made of wood, cordage or bone in ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$110.00, Our Price US$29.98