Landscape Archaeology
How human activity shapes and is shaped by the natural and built environment: GIS and surveying techniques, aerial archaeology, landscape phenomenology, settlement patterns, and the ways in which societies and power relations are spatially structured.
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Somerset's Peatland Archaeology: Managing and Investigating a Fragile Resource [Hardback]
Richard Brunning (Author)
Regular Price: £40.00
Special Price: £30.00
ISBN: 9781842174883
Published by : Oxbow Books
The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains that fringe both sides of the Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene environmental histories and contain a wealth of waterlogged archaeological l... .... Learn More -
The Topography and the Landscape of Roman Dacia [Paperback]
Florin Fodorean (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781407311173
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2501
In this volume the author presents a full study of the topography and landscape of Roman Dacia (roughly present-day north-central and western Romania). The work begins with investigations of the Roman road network and a discussion... .... 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 -
The Romano-British Peasant: Towards a Study of People, Landscapes and Work during the Roman Occupation of Britain [Paperback]
Mike McCarthy (Author)
Regular Price: £29.95
Special Price: £24.00
ISBN: 9781905119479
Published by : Windgather Press
This important and significant volume examines, for the first time, the ordinary people of Roman Britain. This overlooked group – the farmers, shopkeepers, labourers and others – fed the country, made the clothes, mine... .... Learn More -
Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England [Hardback]
Tom Williamson (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781843837374
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial in the development of England's character: its language, and much of its landscape and culture, were forged in the period between the fifth and the eleventh centuries. Historians and archaeologis... .... Learn More -
Landscape and Garden Design: Lessons from History [Paperback]
Gordon Haynes (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781849950824
Published by : Whittles Publishing
This book presents a chronological review of garden design which both simplifies the big picture and supplies a rationale, with examples, of the merits and demerits of each design period while reflecting on the social conditions w... .... 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 -
A Forged Glamour: Landscape, Identity and Material Culture in the Iron Age [Paperback]
Melanie Giles (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781905119462
Published by : Windgather Press
A Forged Glamour, which takes its title from a poem, is an exploration of the lives and deaths of ironworking communities renowned for their spectacular material culture, who lived in modern-day East and North Yorkshire, between t... .... Learn More -
An Atlas of Northamptonshire: The Medieval and Early-Modern Landscape [Hardback]
Tracey Partida (Author); David Hall (Author); Glenn Foard (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781842175118
Published by : Oxbow Books
An Atlas of Northamptonshire presents an historical atlas of the greater part of Northamptonshire (the first quarter having been published as An Atlas of Rockingham Forest). It presents in map form the results of fieldwork and documentary resea... .... Learn More -
Oxford Handbook of Wetland Archaeology [Hardback]
Francesco Menotti (Editor); Aidan O'Sullivan (Editor)
£110.00ISBN: 9780199573493
Published by : Oxford University Press
Well known for the spectacular quality of its surviving evidence, from both an archaeological and environmental perspective, wetland archaeology enables scholars to investigate and reconstruct past people's dwellings, landscapes,... .... Learn More