Landscape Archaeology
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The Late Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic in the Seimarren Drainage, central Zagros: Excavations at Mar Gurgalan, Asiab and Ganj Dareh [Hardback]
Tobias Richter (Editor); Hojjat Darabi (Editor); Peder Mortensen (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789259414
Published by : Oxbow Books
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The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in Southwest Asia remains a key area of research for archaeologists. For many years, little intensive research was possible in the ‘eastern wing’ of the Fertile Crescent. This volume present... .... Learn More -
Extracting Stone: The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes [Paperback]
Anne S. Dowd (Author); Mary Beth D. Trubitt (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785706240
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 7
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This exciting new addition to the American Landscapes series provides an in-depth account of how flintknappers obtained and used stone based on archaeological, geological, landscape, and anthropological data. Featuring case studies from three key ... .... Learn More -
Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Upper Midwestern North America [Paperback]
Robert A. Birmingham (Author)
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ISBN: 9781785700873
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
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Between c. AD 700 and 1100, Late Woodland people of the Upper Midwest used the topography and other features of the natural landscape to create vast ceremonial landscapes consisting of thousands of earthen mounds sculpted into animals and... .... Learn More -
Farming, Everyday Life and Ritual: 6000 years of archaeological at Thanet Earth [Paperback]
Jake Weekes (Editor); James Holman (Editor); Robert Masefield (Editor); Jonathan Rady (Editor); Jakes Weekes (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781870545440
Published by : Canterbury Archaeological Trust
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In the late 2000s, the development of the country’s biggest glasshouse complex by Fresca Group Ltd at Monkton Road Farm on Isle of Thanet led to one of the largest open area excavations ever conducted in Kent. The development covered 90 hectares (... .... Learn More -
From Hunter-Gatherers to Early Christians: The Archaeology of Ancient Societies in the Llŷn Peninsula [Paperback]
Julian Maxwell Heath (Author)
£39.95ISBN: 9781914427220
Published by : Windgather Press
Jutting out some thirty miles into the Irish Sea, from the western edge of Snowdonia, the Llŷn Peninsula, in north-west Wales, is renowned for its stunning beaches and countryside, with much of its landscape designated as an Area of Outstanding Na... .... Learn More -
Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America [Paperback]
Cheryl Claassen (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781789259292
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 8
In the long history of documenting the material culture of the archaeological record, meaning and actions of makers and users of these items is often overlooked. The authors in this book focus on rituals exploring the natural and made landscape st... .... Learn More -
Human Transformations of the Earth [Paperback]
Charles French (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789259209
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Studying Scientific Archaeology
Volume: 7
This book charts and explains how human activities have shaped and altered the development of soils in many parts of the world, taking advantage of five decades of soil analytical work in many archaeological landscapes from around the globe. The c... .... Learn More -
English Orchards: A Landscape History [Paperback]
Gerry Barnes (Author); Tom Williamson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781914427190
Published by : Windgather Press
Old orchards have an irresistible appeal. Their ancient trees and obscure fruit varieties seem to provide a direct link with the lost rural world of our ancestors, a time when the pace of life was slower and people had a strong and intimate connec... .... Learn More -
EAA 176: Fransham: People and land in a central Norfolk parish from the Palaeolithic to the eve of Parliamentary Enclosure [Paperback]
Andrew Rogerson (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780905594576
Published by : East Anglian Archaeology
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Volume: 176
Fransham: people and land attempts to illustrate, and where possible explain, the many great changes in settlement pattern and land-use that took place in one Norfolk clayland parish from the Neolithic to the post-medieval period. Archaeo... .... Learn More -
Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities: Supplementary Material [Paperback]
Stuart Needham (Author); George Anelay (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9789464260465
Published by : Sidestone Press
Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities argues exactly that. Round barrows do not just represent the death side of Early Bronze Age communities placed in set-a-side ritual landscapes, but were instead central to existence in many ways. This ... .... Learn More
