Botany, Plants

ISBN: 9780415438230
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This innovative book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Roman gardens to combine literary and archaeological evidence with contemporary space theory. It applies a variety of interdisciplinary methods including access analysis, literary... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783806229752
Published by : Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH & Co.
This study uses dendrochronology to analyse a group of around 8000 Neolithic timber buildings of the Horgener Culture and Goldberg III Group in Swabia. The results permit detailed conclusions on settlement dynamics and development, the utiliza... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789077922590
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Groningen Archaeological Studies
Volume: 9
This atlas, which - like the other atlases in the series - is published as a book plus a website, presents the plant parts that have an economic value and are offered for sale at markets and in shops. They include plants that are used as food, spi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842173862
Published by : Oxbow Books
The study of tree-rings (dendrochronology) provides a key resource for determining dates for archaeological and other contexts where wood/charcoal is present (and so cultural chronology), and for investigating past climate and environment. In ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842173541
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume celebrates the career of archaebotanist Professor Gordon C. Hillman. Twenty-eight papers cover a wide range of topics reflecting the great influence that Hillman has had in the field of archaeobotany. Many of his favourite research ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843833635
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
A specialist look at the changing roles of plants and herbs in medieval medicine. Following a general introduction and a background chapter on Late Antique and medieval theories of wellness and therapy, in-depth essays treat such wide-ranging ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780202361697
Published by : Aldine Transaction
These fifty papers were presented at a two-day meeting of the Research Seminar in Archaeology and Related Subjects held at the Institute of Archaeology in London in 1968. Archaeologists, anthropologists and biologists discuss the environmental... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780884023289
Published by : Dumbarton Oaks
This fascinating and beautifully produced volume provides a world tour of urban gardens, both private and public, looking at their contribution to city culture and politics. Gardens, as each of the contributions make plain, are a way in which w... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780884023357
Published by : Dumbarton Oaks
The latest in Dumbarton Oaks series on gardens and the ways in which they are used and conceived looks at gardens as places to stimulate the imagination and creative thought. Different cultures have of course seen gardens in very different ways... .... Learn More