Landscape Archaeology
How human activity shapes and is shaped by the natural and built environment: GIS and surveying techniques, aerial archaeology, landscape phenomenology, settlement patterns, and the ways in which societies and power relations are spatially structured.
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Urban Landscape Survey in Italy and the Mediterranean [Hardback]
F Vermeulen (Editor); Simon Keay (Editor); Gert-Jan Burgers (Editor); Cristina Corsi (Editor)
$96.00ISBN: 9781842174869
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 fro... .... Learn More -
Cairns, Fields, and Cultivation [Hardback]
Jamie Quartermaine (Author); Roger H Leech (Author)
$50.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781907686078
Published by : Oxford Archaeology
Series: Lancaster Imprints
Volume: 10
The uplands of the Lake District are famed for their rugged
natural beauty, but the reality is that this landscape has been
modified and changed by man since the mesolithic period. The ... .... Learn More -
Landscape and Prehistory of the East London Wetlands: Investigations along the A13 DBFO Roadscheme, Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking and Dagenham, 2000-2003 [Paperback]
Damian Goodburn (Author); Martin Bates (Author); Elizabeth Stafford (Author)
$50.00ISBN: 9780904220704
Published by : Oxford Archaeology
Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph
Volume: 17
Archaeological investigations carried out during improvements to five key junctions along a stretch of the A13 trunk road through the East London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking and Dagenham have revealed evidence for activity sp... .... Learn More -
Caves in Context: The Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe [Hardback]
Knut Andreas Bergsvik (Editor); Robin Skeates (Editor)
$90.00ISBN: 9781842174746
Published by : Oxbow Books
Caves in Context provides the thriving inter-disciplinary field of cave studies with a European-scale survey of current research in cave archaeology. It is unified by a contemporary theoretical emphasis on the cultural significance and diversi... .... Learn More -
Archaeology and Environment in Northumberland: Till-Tweed Studies Volume 2 [Hardback]
Clive Waddington (Author); D G Passmore (Author); Tim Gates (Author); Peter Marshall (Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9781842174470
Published by : Oxbow Books
Eventful, influential and absorbing, the early history of Northumberland is a fascinating story that has rarely been brought together under one cover. In this authoritative historical account, the authors bring to bear a huge quantity of old a... .... Learn More -
Savernake Forest: Continuity and Change in a Wooded Landscape [Paperback]
Ben Lennon (Author)
$80.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781407309460
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The objective of this study is to seek to better understand the processes involved in landscape change that have resulted in the highly distinctive character types found in the British Isles. Rather than drawing examples of different aspects of... .... Learn More -
The Significance of Trees: An Archaeological Perspective [Paperback]
Peter Skoglund (Author)
$53.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781407309071
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This book investigates the practical and ritual dimensions of trees and timber in the Bronze Age and Iron Age of Scandinavia. The arguments are developed through the study of a broad range of materials including rock-art images depicting trees,... .... Learn More -
From Machair to Mountains: Archaeological Survey And Excavation in South Uist [Hardback]
Michael Parker Pearson (Author)
$70.00ISBN: 9781842174517
Published by : Oxbow Books
South Uist in the Outer Hebrides has some of the best preserved archaeological remains within Britain and even further afield. Three distinct ecological zones - grassland machair plain, peaty blackland and mountains - each bear the imprint of h... .... Learn More -
Archaeological Survey of the Gournia Landscape: A Regional History of the Mirabello Bay, Crete, in Antiquity [eBook PDF]
Krzysztof Nowicki (Author); L. Vance Watrous (Author); Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan (Author); Donald Haggis (Author); Maryanne Schultz (Author)
$48.00ISBN: 9781623030391
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press
Series: PREHISTORY MONOGRAPHS
Volume: 37
A regional survey was undertaken in the central part of the Mirabello Bay area: along the northeastern coast of Crete in the Gournia Valley and the northern half of the Isthmus of Ierapetra, ending in the valley of Episkopi, to provide a regional ... .... Learn More -
A Late Iron Age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at Mound 1, Bornais, South Uist [eBook (epub)]
Niall Sharples (Editor)
$48.00ISBN: 9781842179277
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: CARDIFF STUDIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY
The settlement at Bornais consists of a complex of mounds which protrude from the relatively flat machair plain in the township of Bornais on the island of South Uist. This sandy plain has proved an attractive settlement from the Beaker period ... .... Learn More