Landscape Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Garden History & Nature: Unearthing Earth’s Stories
Our Landscape Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Garden History & Nature books provide an in-depth scientific look at how landscapes have shaped human migration and have in turn been shaped by humans via gardening and horticulture. These books provide insights into ancient landscapes that would complement any of our regional subject offerings, or you can complement your studies with related books found in our Heritage & Conservation and Landscape & Gardening subject areas.
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The Watermills and Landscape of the River Great Ouse, Cambridgeshire
Modelling the Impact of Watermilling in a Lowland Valley
Price: £29.95
ISBN: 9781914427411
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2025-06-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
160 Pages
Analyses the continuing impact of water milling on the landscape of the River Great Ouse valley until its decline in the second half of the 19th century.
Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Upper Midwestern North America
Full Price: £38.00
Discount Price: £28.50
ISBN: 9781785700873
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-09-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
240 Pages
First comprehensive overview of the effigy mound phenomenon of the Upper Midwest of North America c. 700–1100 CE
The Rother Valley
A Short History of a Lowland English River Catchment and Prospects for Future Management
Full Price: £39.95
Discount Price: £31.95
ISBN: 9781914427275
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-09-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
192 Pages
Looking at the Rother Valley in West Sussex, the authors give a short history of a lowland English river catchment and prospects for its future management.
A Date with the Two Cerne Giants
Reinvestigating an Iconic British Hill Figure (The National Trust Excavations 2020)
Full Price: £24.95
Discount Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9781914427374
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-08-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
224 Pages
Recent fieldwork provided new, unexpected Anglo-Saxon, dates for the Cerne Giant which are discussed in the wider context of British hill figures and early medieval iconography.
Extracting Stone
The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes
Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9781785706240
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-03-05
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
168 Pages
Using a landscape approach to analysis, this volume examines activities at three major quarries that were used most intensively in the Archaic and Woodland periods, roughly 8,000-1,000 BP, looking at extraction scales, the range of material distributions, trade and exchange, the emergence of inequalities, and the broader technological systems.
Commemorating Classical Battles
A Landscape Biography Approach to Marathon, Leuktra, and Chaironeia
Price: £49.95
ISBN: 9781789259353
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-05-11
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
272 Pages
A study of the commemoration of Classical Greek battles from a landscape biography perspective, approaching monuments and other practices as vital elements in the creation and curation of memories.
Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America
Price: £45.00
ISBN: 9781789259292
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-01-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
256 Pages
New insights into wide-ranging temporal and geographical evidence for rituals and ritual specialists across the Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland and Mississippian Periods in the Southeastern USA.
Seventeenth-century Water Gardens and the Birth of Modern Scientific thought in Oxford
The Case of Hanwell Castle
Price: £39.95
ISBN: 9781914427169
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2022-11-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
240 Pages
Tells the story of the Copes, Baronets of Hanwell Castle, Oxfordshire, and the creation of a water garden that became a crucible for the development of scientific thinking in seventeenth-century Oxford.
The Watermills and Landscape of the River Great Ouse, Cambridgeshire
Modelling the Impact of Watermilling in a Lowland Valley
Price: £29.95
ISBN: 9781914427411
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2025-06-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
160 Pages
Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Upper Midwestern North America
Full Price: £38.00
Discount Price: £28.50
ISBN: 9781785700873
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-09-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
240 Pages
The Rother Valley
A Short History of a Lowland English River Catchment and Prospects for Future Management
Full Price: £39.95
Discount Price: £31.95
ISBN: 9781914427275
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-09-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
192 Pages
A Date with the Two Cerne Giants
Reinvestigating an Iconic British Hill Figure (The National Trust Excavations 2020)
Full Price: £24.95
Discount Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9781914427374
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-08-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
224 Pages
Extracting Stone
The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes
Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9781785706240
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-03-05
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
168 Pages
Commemorating Classical Battles
A Landscape Biography Approach to Marathon, Leuktra, and Chaironeia
Price: £49.95
ISBN: 9781789259353
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-05-11
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
272 Pages
Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America
Price: £45.00
ISBN: 9781789259292
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-01-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
256 Pages
Seventeenth-century Water Gardens and the Birth of Modern Scientific thought in Oxford
The Case of Hanwell Castle
Price: £39.95
ISBN: 9781914427169
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2022-11-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
240 Pages