Environmental & Earth Sciences
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Poisonous Plants: A Cultural and Social History [Paperback]
Robert Bevan-Jones (Author)
Regular Price: £25.00
Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9781905119219
Published by : Windgather Press
The botanical history of Britain and North West Europe has a dark and a light side. Plants have been used as weapons to harm people, taken deliberately as addictive drugs and also employed as tools in witchcraft and used as magical amulets. Yet... .... Learn More -
From Foragers to Farmers: Papers in Honour of Gordon C. Hillman [Hardback]
Andrew S Fairbairn (Editor); Ehud Weiss (Author)
Regular Price: £55.00
Special Price: £12.95
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 -
English Geographies 1600-1950: Historical Essays on English Customs, Cultures, and Communities in Honour of Jack Langton [Paperback]
Elizabeth Baigent (Author); Robert J. Mayhew (Editor); Robert Mayhew (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780954497569
Published by : St John's College Research Centre
English Geographies presents a set of seven interlinked inquiries into the ways in which geographical variations in the material conditions of existence and their representation in maps, poetry, and prose need to be incorporated into our unders... .... Learn More -
New Directions in the Skeletal Biology of Greece [Paperback]
Lynne A. Schepartz (Editor); Sherry C. Fox (Editor); Chryssi Bourbou (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9780876615430
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Hesperia Supplement
Volume: 43
Physical anthropology, the study of human skeletal remains, has assumed an increasingly important role in the archaeology of Greece over the past 30 years, both in the field and in interpretive research. In addition to including s... .... Learn More -
Journal of Wetland Archaeology 8 (2008) [Paperback]
Bryony Coles (Editor)
Regular Price: £20.00
Special Price: £5.00
ISBN: 9781842173282
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Journal of Wetland Archaeology
Volume: 8
The Journal of Wetland Archaeology is the journal of the
Wetland Archaeology Research Project (WARP).The journal covers
all fields of wetland archaeology, from methodology to synthesis
and theory and all periods and geographic reg... .... Learn More -
Environment and Aggregate-Related Archaeology [Paperback]
Tony Brown (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781905223022
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume provides a synthetic review of the background and archaeology that has emerged through archaeological interventions associated with the quarrying of sand, gravel, and rock for aggregates. The book covers all periods from the Lower ... .... Learn More -
Farming on the Edge: Archaeological Evidence from the Clay Uplands West of Cambridge [Paperback]
Joe Abrams (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780955654602
Published by : East Anglian Archaeology
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Volume: 123
A ridgeway in an exposed location on heavy clay soils was not favoured for settlement, except during the Iron Age and Roman period, when a number of farmsteads were established. At this time, a network of drove-ways criss-crossed the area, link... .... Learn More -
Trees and Woodlands of South India: Archaeological Perspectives [Hardback]
Eleni Asouti (Author)
£80.50ISBN: 9781598742312
Published by : Left Coast Press
This volume introduces the ecological history of woodland vegetation in South India. It incorporates a critical overview of the theories of ecological on the subcontinent while detailing the history of long-term changes in the tree and shrub ve... .... Learn More -
World Without End? Environmental Disaster and the Collapse of Empires [Hardback]
Ian D. Whyte (Author)
£24.50ISBN: 9781845110550
Published by : Tauris & Co Ltd
Human societies have, from the very earliest times both been affected by, and attempted to manage and control their environment. Of course the potential for environmental catastrophe has never been greater than at the present, with changes broug... .... Learn More -
Living in the City: Elites and their Residences, 1500-1900 [Paperback]
John Dunne (Editor);Paul Janssens (Editor)
£52.00ISBN: 9782503520261
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800)
Volume: 12
The country house, chateau or rural palazzo set in extensive grounds may have been the ultimate badge of social pre-eminence but invariably their owners spent much of the year in the city. To this extent urban living was common to all elites worth... .... Learn More