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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Making Sense of an Historic Landscape [Hardback]
Stephen Rippon (Author)
£84.00ISBN: 9780199533787
Published by : Oxford University Press
Local variation in the character of the countryside provides communities with an important sense of place, and this book suggests that some of these differences can be traced back to prehistory. In his discussion, Rippon makes use... .... Learn More -
Wetland Archaeology and Beyond: Theory and Practice [Hardback]
Francesco Menotti (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9780199571017
Published by : Oxford University Press
Wetland Archaeology and Beyond takes the reader through the fascinating biography of wetland archaeology, from the dawn of the discipline to its remarkable achievements. Through a discussion of a large variety of worldwide wetland archaeologica... .... Learn More -
Highways, Byways and Road Systems in the Pre-modern World [Hardback]
Susan Alcock (Author);John Bodel (Author);Richard J. A. Talbert (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9780470674253
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This volume presents a comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of overland transport and communication networks across premodern cultures. Featuring contributions from an international team of scholars, these readings delve deeply... .... Learn More -
Byzantine Epirus: Settlements From the 7th to the 12th Centuries - A Topography of Transformation [Hardback]
Myrto Veikou (Author)
£200.00ISBN: 9789004221512
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Drawing on archaeological fieldwork in Western Greece, this book offers a fresh model for interpreting the transformation of medieval settlement (600-1200 AD). Rereading Byzantine texts from a postmodern theoretical background, it introduces a ... .... Learn More -
Rural Economy and Society in North-Western Europe, 500-2000. Struggling with the Environment: Land Use and Productivity [Hardback]
E Thoen (Editor);T Soens (Editor)
£66.00ISBN: 9782503530475
Published by : Brepols
Series: Rural Economy and Society in North-Western Europe, 500-2000
Volume: 4
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De Nederlandse Landschapsstijl in de Achttiende Eeuw [Paperback]
Heimerick Tromp (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9789088901003
Published by : Sidestone Press
Dutch Description:
Tot halverwege de twintigste eeuw was men er nog van overtuigd, dat men in Nederland niet over de landschapsstijl kan spreken vóór de negentiende eeuw. Dit beeld is echter de laatste decennia aanzienlijk ge... .... Learn More -
Archaeological Survey of the Gournia Landscape: A Regional History of the Mirabello Bay, Crete, in Antiquity [Hardback]
L. Vance Watrous (Author); Donald Haggis (Author); Krzysztof Nowicki (Author); Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan (Author); Maryanne Schultz (Author)
£53.00ISBN: 9781931534673
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: PREHISTORY MONOGRAPHS
Volume: 37
A regional survey was undertaken in the central part of the Mirabello Bay area: along the northeastern coast of Crete in the Gournia Valley and the northern half of the Isthmus of Ierapetra, ending in the valley of Episkopi, to provide a region... .... Learn More -
Kos in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age: The Halasarna Finds and the Aegean Settlement Pattern [Hardback]
Mercourios Georgiadis (Author)
£46.00ISBN: 9781931534680
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: PREHISTORY MONOGRAPHS
Volume: 38
This volume is based on material from an intensive and systematic field survey of Halasarna (modern Kardamaina), located on a coastal plain in the southern part of the Dodecanesian island of Kos, and a study of settlement patterns across the A... .... Learn More -
Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes [Hardback]
Ellen F. Arnold (Author)
£42.50ISBN: 9780812244632
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Negotiating the Landscape explores the question of how medieval religious identities were shaped and modified by interaction with the natural environment. Focusing on the Benedictine monastic community of Stavelot-Malmedy in the A... .... Learn More -
Stanley Abbey and its Estates 1151-c1640 [Paperback]
Graham Brown (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781407310404
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The book assesses the impact of a Cistercian monastery on the landscape and how, in its turn, the landscape influenced the monastery. It also tests some of the traditional views on the early ideals of the Cistercians such as their attitude to col... .... Learn More