Botany, Plants

ISBN: 9789077922538
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Groningen Archaeological Studies
Volume: 6
Dutch description: Veel informatie over de voedingseconomie en de milieuomstandigheden in en rond de steden van de stedelijke geschiedenis ligt in de vorm van oude plantenresten opgeslagen in het botanische deel van het stedelijke bodemarch... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780884023296
Published by : Dumbarton Oaks
This well produced volume uses the relatively new discipline of garden archaeology to engage with Islamic history and culture over a wide timespan (7th-19th centuries) and covering countries from Spain to Afghanistan. The essays approach the su... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780884023272
Published by : Dumbarton Oaks
This interesting and slightly unusual book takes up the subject of the effect that changes in the relationship between humans and plants have had in the wider cultural sphere. Essays range all over the world, from the relgious symblism of the r... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780747806462
Published by : Shire Publications
What, if any, are the differences between a belvedere, a gazebo, a pavilion and a summerhouse? How does one distinguish between an allée and an alley, and when does an allée become an avenue? What particular characteristics mark an Islamic gard... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781848220102
Published by : Lund Humphries Publishers
The botanical riches of this book are twofold. This is firstly a book about plants themselves, and the story of their exploration, appreciation, introduction and exploitation through the ages. It is equally about the collective library of books... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781902771489
Published by : Council for British Archaeology
Before the 1980s, people wishing to recreate or reconstruct a historic garden, 'back to its former glory,' relied almost solely on documentary sources, paintings and literary references. For the last twenty years it has been recognised that the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415317498
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Tom Turner here explores more than 150 gardens over four millennia of western garden design. He traces the development of gardens through history and across social, political and philosophical boundaries. Fully illustrated throughout, each cha... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415324496
Published by : Routledge Ltd
The corpus of Latin literary works, both poetry and prose, includes a good many analytical studies, instruction manuals, `how to' guides and flowery descriptions of gardening and, linked to this, farming, beekeeping, viniculture and so on. Here... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415324502
Published by : Routledge Ltd
The corpus of Latin literary works, both poetry and prose, includes a good many analytical studies, instruction manuals, `how to' guides and flowery descriptions of gardening and, linked to this, farming, beekeeping, viniculture and so on. Here... .... Learn More