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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Medieval English Landscape [Paperback]
Graeme J White (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781441135254
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
Opening with a broad-ranging analysis of political and economic trends in medieval England, this book then offers a guide to an understanding of farmland, fisheries and forests, of towns, villages and hamlets, of roads, waterways... .... Learn More -
The Place-Names of Bute [Hardback]
Gilbert Markus (Author)
£24.00ISBN: 9781907730153
Published by : Paul Watkins
Following a substantial historical introduction this book discusses every place-name on the OS Explorer (1:25000) map, as well as many other Bute place-names no longer in use. The most rigorous scholarly protocols are followed: fo... .... Learn More -
Gardens in History: A Political Perspective [Paperback]
Louise Wickham (Author)
£29.95ISBN: 9781905119431
Published by : Windgather Press
Over the past 50 years, the subject of garden history has been firmly established as an academic discipline. While many have explored what was created in gardens throughout history, the reasons as to why they were created has naturally been mor... .... Learn More -
A Late Iron Age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at Mound 1, Bornais, South Uist [Hardback]
Niall Sharples (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9781842174692
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: CARDIFF STUDIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY
The settlement at Bornais consists of a complex of mounds which protrude from the relatively flat machair plain in the township of Bornais on the island of South Uist. This sandy plain has proved an attractive settlement from the Beaker period ... .... Learn More -
Urban Landscape Survey in Italy and the Mediterranean [Hardback]
F Vermeulen (Editor); Simon Keay (Editor); Gert-Jan Burgers (Editor); Cristina Corsi (Editor)
£48.00ISBN: 9781842174869
Published by : Oxbow Books
Field survey has been making a major contribution to our understanding of the rural landscapes of the Mediterranean for nearly forty years. During that time the techniques used to map ancient settlement patterns have grown in sophistication fro... .... Learn More -
Cairns, Fields, and Cultivation [Hardback]
Roger H Leech (Author); Jamie Quartermaine (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781907686078
Published by : Oxford Archaeology
Series: Lancaster Imprints
Volume: 10
The uplands of the Lake District are famed for their rugged natural beauty, but the reality is that this landscape has been modified and changed by man since the mesolithic period. The remains for this exploitation, particularly from the Bronz... .... Learn More -
Landscape and Prehistory of the East London Wetlands: Investigations along the A13 DBFO Roadscheme, Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking and Dagenham, 2000-2003 [Paperback]
Damian Goodburn (Author); Martin Bates (Author); Elizabeth Stafford (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780904220704
Published by : Oxford Archaeology
Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph
Volume: 17
Archaeological investigations carried out during improvements to five key junctions along a stretch of the A13 trunk road through the East London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking and Dagenham have revealed evidence for activity spa... .... Learn More -
Caves in Context: The Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe [Hardback]
Knut Andreas Bergsvik (Editor); Robin Skeates (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781842174746
Published by : Oxbow Books
Caves in Context provides the thriving inter-disciplinary field of cave studies with a European-scale survey of current research in cave archaeology. It is unified by a contemporary theoretical emphasis on the cultural significance and diversi... .... Learn More -
Archaeology and Environment in Northumberland: Till-Tweed Studies Volume 2 [Hardback]
D G Passmore (Author); Clive Waddington (Author); Tim Gates (Author); Peter Marshall (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781842174470
Published by : Oxbow Books
Eventful, influential and absorbing, the early history of Northumberland is a fascinating story that has rarely been brought together under one cover. In this authoritative historical account, the authors bring to bear a huge quantity of old a... .... Learn More -
Tells: Social and Environmental Space [Hardback]
Johannes Muller (Editor); Robert Hofmann (Editor); Fevzi-Kemal Moetz (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9783774937659
Published by : Dr Rudolf Habelt GmbH
Tells form an important part of the landscape of settlement in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age landscapes of southeast Europe and the Middle East. This volume analyses the social and environmental factors which determin... .... Learn More