Environmental & Earth Sciences
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Animals and Archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia: Zooarchaeological Studies in Novgorod and its Region [Hardback]
Mark Maltby (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £45.00
ISBN: 9781842172773
Published by : Oxbow Books
This is the third book on material studies in this series on medieval Novgorod and its territory, and deals with a substantial body of animal bones that has been recovered over the last decade. The zooarchaeological evidence is discussed by the... .... Learn More -
Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area: The History, Origin, and Development of Irrigated Agriculture [Hardback]
B. V. Adrianov (Author); Simone Mantellini (Editor)
Regular Price: £20.00
Special Price: £16.95
ISBN: 9781842173848
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PREHISTORIC RESEARCH MONOGRAPH
Ancient Irrigation Systems in the Aral Sea Area , is the English translation of Boris Vasilevich Andrianov's work, Drevnie orositelnye sistemy priaralya , concerning the study of ancient irrigation systems and the settlement pattern in the histor... .... Learn More -
Modelling archaeology and palaeoenvironments in wetlands: The hidden landscape archaeology of Hatfield and Thorne Moors, eastern England [Hardback]
Henry P. Chapman (Author); Benjamin R. Gearey (Author)
Regular Price: £30.00
Special Price: £24.00
ISBN: 9781782971740
Published by : Oxbow Books
The measurement and analysis of space is central to archaeological study, such as through the recording of site plans and sections and the interpretation of spatial relationships between artefacts and features. Modelling Hidden L... .... Learn More -
Past Bodies: Body-Centered Research in Archaeology [Paperback]
Dusan Boric (Author); John Robb (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781782975427
Published by : Oxbow Books
Archaeology often struggles in envisioning real people behind the world of material objects it studies. Even when dealing with skeletal remains archaeologists routinely reduce them to long lists of figures and attributes. Such a fragmentation o... .... Learn More -
Shell Energy: Mollusc Shells as Coastal Resources [Hardback]
G. N. Bailey (Editor); Karen Hardy (Editor); Abdoulaye Camara (Editor)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £38.00
ISBN: 9781842177655
Published by : Oxbow Books
Shell middens are ubiquitous archaeological features on coastlines throughout the world that have been variously analysed and interpreted as mounds of food, burial places, or simply as convenient receptacles for the preservation o... .... Learn More -
La Eboraria Andalusi: Del Califato Omeya a la Granada Nazari [Paperback]
Noelia Santa-Cruz (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9781407311401
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
A comprehensive study of a wide range of Andalusian ivory artefacts from the Middle Ages. .... Learn More -
Humans and the Environment : New archaeological perspectives for the twenty-first century [Hardback]
Matthew P. Davies (Editor); Freda Nkirote M'Mbogori (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9780199590292
Published by : Oxford University Press
The environment has always been a central concept for archaeologists and, although it has been conceived in many ways, its role in archaeological explanation has fluctuated from a mere backdrop to human action, to a primary facto... .... Learn More -
The Historic Landscape of Devon: A Study in Change and Continuity [Paperback]
Lucy Ryder (Author)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £24.00
ISBN: 9781905119387
Published by : Windgather Press
This book discusses the 19th-century historic landscape of Devon though the creation, manipulation and querying of a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) database to examine physical evidence of change and development through field and settl... .... Learn More -
Ecology and Enclosure: The Effect of Enclosure on Society, Farming and the Environment in South Cambridgeshire, 1798-1850 [Paperback]
Shirley Wittering (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781905119448
Published by : Windgather Press
South Cambridgeshire has some of the richest arable land in England and has been cultivated for millennia. By the turn of the nineteenth century industrialisation and massive population growth had resulted in an enormous increase in the demand ... .... Learn More -
The Prehistory of Metallurgy in the British Isles [Paperback]
R. F. Tylecote (Author)
£19.50ISBN: 9780901462961
Published by : Maney Materials Science
Series: matsci
Originally published by the former Institute of Materials, now the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Reprinted in 1990, this book is based upon the author's Metallurgy in Archaeology (1962). Incorporating the results of work done between... .... Learn More