Botany, Plants
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PACT 42: Garden History [Paperback]
Dagfinn Moe (Author);James H. Dickson (Author);Per Magnus Jorgensen (Author)
Regular Price: £42.00
Special Price: £24.95
Published by : PACT-Belgium
Papers from a symposium held at the European Iniversity Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello, June 1991, on garden plants, species, forms and varieties from Pompeii to 1800. In English, one in French. .... Learn More -
Phytoarchaeology [Hardback]
Robert R Brookes (Author);Deiter Johannes (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9780718513757
Published by : Leicester University Press
Phytoarchaeology is the relationship between vegetation and archaeology, particularly those situations where, for example, a mineral such as copper has been mined, and the soil is now full of copper salts and toxic to all but a few species of c... .... Learn More -
A Slice Through Time [Paperback]
Michael Baillie (Author)
£32.50ISBN: 9780713476545
Published by : Routledge Ltd
A much needed, accessible statement of the current state of dendrochronology by one of the acknowledged leaders in the field. It is now possible for dendrochronologists to provide a sample of wood which grew in any calendar date over the last s... .... Learn More -
The Living Fields [Hardback]
J.R. Harlan (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9780521401128
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This is a great book, written in a beautifully accessible way by a leading plant geneticist fascinated by the process of domestication. After surveying the different models of agricultural uptake (`agriculture by stress', `agriculture for reli... .... Learn More -
The Living Fields [Paperback]
J.R. Harlan (Author)
£21.99ISBN: 9780521649926
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This is a great book, written in a beautifully accessible way by a leading plant geneticist fascinated by the process of domestication. After surveying the different models of agricultural uptake (`agriculture by stress', `agriculture for reli... .... Learn More -
The Medieval Garden [Paperback]
Sylvia Landsberg (Author)
Regular Price: £9.99
Special Price: £7.99
ISBN: 9780714105901
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd
Covers the various styles of garden from the small enclosed herber with its plant borders, turf benches and rose-covered trellises to the vast cultivated parks of royalty and nobility. Landsberg gives details of the construction and contents of... .... Learn More -
Vorgeschichtliche Pflanzenreste aus Heilbronn-Klingenberg [Paperback]
Hans-Peter Stika (Author)
Regular Price: £28.00
Special Price: £15.00
ISBN: 9783806212402
Published by : Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH & Co.
Report on the botanicla material extracted from the prehistoric levels at Heilbronn-Klingenberg. Used over several periods, the site produced organic material from the late Neolithic, late Halstatt and early Latène. Thus inferences can be made ... .... Learn More -
Gardens of Italy and the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire [Paperback]
Linda Farrar (Author)
£47.00ISBN: 9780860548379
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
A study of aspects of urban and rural Roman horticulture. Limited by the available evidence, most of the discussion relates to decorative gardens, making use of literary sources and depicions on wall paintings. It is a particularly refreshing ... .... Learn More -
Romerzeitliche Pflanzenreste aus Baden-Wurttemburg [Paperback]
Hans-Peter Stika (Author)
£52.00ISBN: 9783806212853
Published by : Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH & Co.
Detailed analysis of the plant species discovered in excavation at a variety of Roman sites in the province of Germania. Such careful study ensures a wealth of reliable and accurate data which can be used to build a picture of the environmental... .... Learn More -
Forêts et Sociétés en Languedoc: Néolithique Final, Antiquité Tardive [Paperback]
Lucie Chabal (Author)
£26.95ISBN: 9782735106356
Published by : Diffusion CID
A study of charcoal analysis and to what extent it can reconstruct the history of forests. Part one discusses the methods-from the archaeological dig to palaeoenvironmental interpretation. Part two consists of analyses of thirteen Languedocian... .... Learn More