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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Early Metallurgical Sites in Great Britain [Paperback]
C. R. Blick (Editor)
£14.50ISBN: 9780901462848
Published by : Maney Materials Science
Series: matsci
This highly illustrated book documents fifteen archaeologically authenticated sites of importance in the history of metallurgical development in Britain from prehistory to the Middle Ages. .... Learn More -
A History of Metallurgy [Paperback]
R. F. Tylecote (Author)
£29.50ISBN: 9781902653792
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: matsci
First published in 1976. Second edition published 1992, reprinted in 2002 and 2011. In this book Professor Tylecote presents a unique introduction to the history of metallurgy from the earliest times to the present. The development of metallurgy... .... Learn More -
An Examination of Late Assyrian Metalwork [Hardback]
John Curtis (Author)
£48.00ISBN: 9781842175071
Published by : Oxbow Books
Although the Assyrian kingdom that dominated the Ancient Near East between the ninth and seventh centuries BC had a rich material culture, attested particularly by the distinctive stone wall reliefs and colossal gateway figures, practically not... .... Learn More