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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 GB £40.00, Our Price GB £14.95

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 GB £30.00

Zooarchaeology
by Elizabeth J. Reitz and Elizabeth A. Wing
Brought right up to date for its second edition, with three chapters substantially rewritten and a greater focus on environmental change and applied zooarchaeology, this textbook is now firmly established as the key resource for those studying zooarchaeology. 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 ...
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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 ...
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Alluvial Geoarchaeology: Floodplain archaeology and environmental change
by A. G. Brown
An examination of riverine and alluvial environments, their particular characteristics and how they affect the archaeological record. It provides a clear introduction to the physical and biological aspects of alluvial environments and discusses aspects of preservation, transportation, burial, environment and subsistence and their relation to archaeology. There is also a strong emphasis on how human activity has altered these environments with a ...
Paperback. Price GB £32.00

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Hedgerow History: Ecology, History and Landscape Character
by Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson
Oxbow says: For many years hedges have been the most common field boundary in rural Britain, providing a stock-proof barrier, a field boundary and a haven for wildlife. Despite this, they are rarely studied in any detail in landscape archaeology. The authors of Hedgerow History rightly argue that hedges, as an essential feature of the landscape, their origins and development, are as worthy of study as any other part of the ...
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Enduring Records: The Environmental and Cultural Heritage of Wetlands
edited by Barbara Purdy
In rare instances prehistoric peoples and/or their most fragile creations are preserved when they become accidentally or intentionally entombed in environments that have remained constantly wet, dry, or frozen. 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 addition to the more common stone ...
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