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Landscape Archaeology

Non-Destructive Techniques Applied to Landscape Archaeology
^BNon-Destructive Techniques Applied to Landscape Archaeology edited by Marinella Pasquinucci and Frédéric Trément D. The fourth book in the Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes series. The contributors to this book outline non-destructive methods such as remote sensing, aerial photography and reconnaissance, magnetic and radar techniques, seismic and acoustic methods, soil phosphate surveys and geochemical analysis with ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £55.00, Our Price GB £10.00

Gardens of Earthly Delight: The History of Deer Parks
by John Fletcher
This is a highly original, profusely illustrated, and well researched account of deer parks. With humility and respect Fletcher touches on errors commonly made by archaeologists and historians, taking issue with long held theories while drawing on his lifetime working with deer to formulate plausible explanations as to, for example, why they were not domesticated until the 20th century, how parks evolved from haga and elricks, why ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00

Land and People: Papers in Memory of John G. Evans
edited by Michael J. Allen, Niall Sharples and Terry O'Connor
This volume is derived, in concept, from a conference held in honour of John Evans by the School of History and Archaeology and The Prehistoric Society at Cardiff University in March 2006. It brings together papers that address themes and landscapes on a variety of levels. They cover geographical, methodological and thematic areas that were of interest to, and had been studied by, John Evans. The volume is divided into five sections, which echo ...
Hardback. Price GB £35.00

Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600
edited by Neil Christie and Paul Stamper
Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600 is a major assessment and review of the origins, forms and evolutions of medieval rural settlement in Britain and Ireland across the period c. AD 800-1600. It offers a comprehensive analysis of early to late medieval settlement, land use, economics and population, bringing together evidence drawn from archaeological excavations and surveys, historical geographical analysis and ...
Hardback. Price GB £30.00

William Faden and Norfolk's Eighteenth Century Landscape: A Digital Re-Assessment of his Historic Map
by Andrew Macnair and Tom Williamson
William Faden's map of Norfolk, published in 1797, was one of a large number of surveys of English counties produced in the second half of the eighteenth century. This book, with accompanying DVD, presents a new digital version of the map, and explains how this can be interrogated to produce a wealth of new historical information. It discusses the making of the Norfolk map, and Faden's own career, within the wider context of the ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00

Medieval Devon and Cornwall: Shaping an Ancient Countryside
edited by Sam Turner
The countryside of Devon and Cornwall preserves an unusually rich legacy from its medieval past. This book explores the different elements which go to make up this historic landscape - the chapels, crosses, castles and mines; the tinworks and strip fields; and above all, the intricately worked counterpane of hedgebanks and winding lanes. Between AD 500 and 1700, a series of revolutions transformed the structure of the South West Peninsula's rural ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £20.00, Our Price GB £7.95

Places in Between: The Archaeology of Social, Cultural and Geographical Borders and Borderlands
edited by David Mullin
The concept of the border as a metaphor has been widely exploited across the Arts and Humanities and a body of Border Theory has been developed, critiqued and "rethought". It is remarkable that this body of theory has largely been ignored by archaeologists, who have instead preferred to examine social and cultural boundaries, frontiers, marginality and ethnicity. This book, which grew out of a session at TAG in 2008, explores some of the ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00

Urban Landscape Survey in Italy and the Mediterranean
edited by Frank Vermeulen, Gert-Jan Burgers, Simon Keay and Cristina Corsi
Field survey has been making a major contribution to our understanding of the rural landscapes of the Mediterranean for nearly forty years. During that time the techniques used to map ancient settlement patterns have grown in sophistication from being a process of simply identifying sites in the landscape, to one which provided nuanced understandings of their layouts, chronologies and contexts. This has led to a revolution in how archaeologists ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Publisher's Price GB £48.00, Our Price GB £36.00

Life in Medieval Landscapes: People and Places in the Middle Ages
edited by Sam Turner and Bob Silvester
Life in Medieval Landscapes presents new studies on key themes in the economic and social history of the medieval landscape. The book draws together papers by medieval historians and archaeologists, with contributions by leading scholars in each field. The first part explores the nature of landscape regions in Britain and Ireland. Chapters explore the use and experience of different types of landscapes including marshlands, uplands, ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00

Landscapes through the Lens: Aerial Photographs and the Historic Environment
edited by David C. Cowley, Robin A. Standring, and Matthew J. Abicht
This volume presents the rich, but under-utilised and in parts inaccessible, archival historic aerial imagery, traditional photographs and those captured from satellites, for the exploration and management of cultural heritage. An unparalleled resource, for archaeologists and all with an interest in landscapes, images spanning the second half of the 20th century provide an unrivalled means of documenting and understanding change and informing the ...
Paperback. Price GB £45.00