Oxbow Books, 2009. — 261 p. — (Prehistoric Society Research Paper 2). This volume brings together papers that address themes and landscapes on a variety of levels. They cover geographical, methodological and thematic areas that were of interest to, and had been studied by, John Evans. In some instances papers will be seen to have been inspired by John’s approaches to landscape...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 240 p. — (Prehistoric Society Research Papers). This volume is derived, in concept, from a conference held in honour of John Evans by the School of History and Archaeology and The Prehistoric Society at Cardiff University in March 2006. It brings together papers that address themes and landscapes on a variety of levels. They cover geographical,...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 160 p. Landscape Archaeology in the Near East: Approaches, Methods and Case Studies contains original research presented at the third international symposium of SNELA – the Society for Near Eastern Landscape Archaeology. SNELA was established in 2016 with the first symposium (held in Jerusalem) with the express aim of providing a meeting ground for all...
Springer, 2021. — 230 p. - Presents unique European overview of current fieldsystem research - Focuses on social implications of land allotment - Offers rich and varied data-set of recently investigated European field systems This volume focuses on the development of field systems through time and space and in their wider landscape context, including classical issues pertaining...
Photographer: Simon McBride. — Henry Holt and Company, 1988. — 192 p. Shows and describes locations in England and Wales that are associated with the legend of King Arthur, and discusses the historical authenticity of each site. The partnership of writer and photographer has resulted in this fascinating approach to one of the most famous legends. Advances in archaeology and the...
Windgather Press, 2013. — 416 p. An original and approachable account of how archaeology can tell the story of the English village. Shapwick lies in the middle of Somerset, next to the important monastic center of Glastonbury: the abbey owned the manor for 800 years from the 8th to the 16th century and its abbots and officials had a great influence on the lives of the peasants who...
Routledge, 2000. — 384 p. — (One World Archaeology; 39). — ISBN: 0-415-23001-2. Many dryland regions contain archaeological remains which suggest that there must have been intensive phases of settlement in what now seem to be dry and degraded environments. This book discusses successes and failures of past land use and settlement in drylands, and contributes to wider debates...
Liecester University Press, 1995. — 351 p. — ISBN: 0-7185-1906-X. From the lakeside encampment of Stone Age scavengers three-quarters of a million years ago to the problems facing modern-day farmers, A Mediterranean Valley documents the long-term settlement history of the Biferno Valley in central-southern Italy, analysing the symbiotic relationship of its landscape and its...
University of Hertfordshire Press, 2015. — 286 p. 'Ancient woodland' is a term widely used in England for long-established semi-natural woods, shaped by centuries of traditional management. As an official designation, it describes woods which have existed since the early seventeenth century, and which today contain a distinctive range of plants which find it hard to colonise...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 220 p. Environment, Archaeology and Landscape is a collection of papers dedicated to Martin Bell on his retirement as Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Reading. Three themes outline how wetland and inland environments can be related and investigated using multi-method approaches. ‘People and the Sea: Coastal and Intertidal...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 144 p. Transhumance presents a collection of papers exploring the practice, impact and archaeology of British and European transhumance, the seasonal grazing of marginal lands by domesticated livestock, usually accompanied by people, often young women. All but one were first given in 2018 at the Newcastle and Durham conference of the International...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 160 p. More than quarter of a century ago Richard Bradley published The Passage of Arms. It was conceived as An Archaeological Analysis of Prehistoric Hoards and Votive Deposits, but, as the author concedes, these terms were too narrowly focused for the complex subject of deliberate deposition and the period covered too short. A Geography of Offerings has...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 160 p. More than quarter of a century ago Richard Bradley published The Passage of Arms . It was conceived as An Archaeological Analysis of Prehistoric Hoards and Votive Deposits , but, as the author concedes, these terms were too narrowly focused for the complex subject of deliberate deposition and the period covered too short. A Geography of Offerings has...
Sidestone Press, 2022. — 300 p Any activity requires the expenditure of energy, and the larger the scale of the undertakings, the more careful and strategic planning in advance is required. In focusing on labouring by humans and other animals, the papers in this volume investigate through a wide range of contexts how past people achieved their multiple daily tasks while...
BAR Publishing, 2005. — 300 p. — (BAR British Series 398). The subject of this work is the archaeology of exploitation of woodland on and around Exmoor, in south-west England. It fits into the existing body of research at three levels. Firstly, it attempts to analyse patterns of woodland management over a large area.In this respect, it forms part of a modern trend, with many...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 352 p. — (Cardini by Groma). Il ciclo di convegni ‘Landscape: una sintesi di elementi diacronici’ è un progetto nato nel 2019 all’interno del Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze dell’Antichità e Archeologia, che coinvolge tre università: Università di Pisa, Università degli Studi di Firenze e Università di Siena. La terza edizione, dal titolo Uomo e ambiente...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 168 p. — (Historical Archaeologies Series). Agrarian Archaeology in Northwestern Iberia is devoted to the archaeological study of the societies and agrarian landscapes of Northwestern Iberia in the longue durée. The book brings together, for the first time, the results of some of the main projects carried out in recent decades from off-site records...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 234 p. — (Historical Archaeologies Series). People and Agrarian Landscapes aims to offer the reader a series of keys to understand why agrarian archaeology has become one of the most dynamic, experimental, and innovative sectors of the discipline in southern Europe, providing an overview of the driving theories, methodologies and main topics that have been...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2017. — 160 p. Open area excavation on 14.45ha of land at Cambridge Road, Bedford was carried out in 2004-5 in advance of development. A background scatter of Early Neolithic flint, including a Langdale stone axe, may be related to the nearby presence of the Cardington causewayed enclosure. Two Early Bronze Age ring ditches sat on a low lying gravel...
University Press of Colorado, 2012. — xxiv, 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60732-167-5. Archaeologists have long encountered evidence of natural disasters through excavation and stratigraphy. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change, case studies examine how eight different past human communities-ranging from Arctic to equatorial regions, from tropical rainforests to desert interiors,...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019. — 198 p. Tentsmuir has been a scene of human activity for over 10,000 years. It witnessed one of the earliest known occurrences in Scotland of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and has supported human activities throughout the Neolithic and Iron Age. In medieval times it was a home for the Norman nobility, and then a royal hunting forest with...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 95 p. Proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France) Volume 8, Session VIII-1 Session VIII-1 of UISPP 2018 in Paris ‘Mapping the Past’ brought together several contributions reflecting on the need to develop sustainable and reliable approaches to mapping our landscape heritage. The session was guided by the crucial concept...
Archaeopress, 2025. — 314 p. Il ciclo di convegni ‘Landscape: una sintesi di elementi diacronici’ nasce nel 2019 e il volume raccoglie gli atti della sua quarta edizione, intitolata Pianificazione e mondo antico: tra i dogmi del passato e le interpretazioni recenti, tenutasi a Lecce dal 25 al 26 maggio 2023, grazie al supporto dell’Università del Salento e del Laboratorio di...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1987. — 218 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series 8). This volume describes the pottery-making depot attached to the pre-Flavian vexillation fortress of Longthorpe near Peterborough and and throws light on the problems of supply of the Roman army during the conquest campaigns. It contains a detailed report on excavations at a group of...
Routledge, 2016. — 719 p. — (World Archaeological Congress research handbooks in archaeology; 1). — ISBN: 978-1-59874-294-7. Over the past three decades, “landscape” has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist’s experience of the natural world, from human impact on past...
Council for British Archaeology, 2000. — 166 p. The valley of the Great Ouse in Bedfordshire is an arca of rich, but diminishing, archaeological resources. This volume draws together, for the first time, current archaeological work in the arca in an attempt to characterise the regions distinct, but previously unrecognised, archaeological identity. With synthetic surveys of...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 253 p. — (BAR International Series 2789). The main aim of this study was to analyse the Roman settlement patterns of the western part of the Conventus Bracarensis, located within a vast province of the Iberian Peninsula: the Hispania Citerior or Tarraconensis. In order to fully understand the Roman settlement patterns of the area under study, it was...
BraDypUS Communicating Cultural Heritage, 2017. — 220 p. — (Actas del congreso Internacional Urban and Rural Landscapes between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages). This volume is based on an international colloquium held in the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in Autumn 2012 on ‘Urban and Rural Landscapes between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages’. The scholars gathered at...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 224 p. Late Antique and Early Medieval Hispania. Landscapes without Strategy? examines the transformations of the urban and rural landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula, across one of the most turbulent periods of the history of this region, between the decay and disappearance of the Roman Empire and the arrival of the Islamic troops (c. AD 400-711). It analyzes...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 224 p. Late Antique and Early Medieval Hispania. Landscapes without Strategy? examines the transformations of the urban and rural landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula, across one of the most turbulent periods of the history of this region, between the decay and disappearance of the Roman Empire and the arrival of the Islamic troops (c. AD 400-711). It...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 229 p. — (BAR International Series 2731). The two small-scale and hyper-intensive surface artifact surveys presented in this study were the first glimpse of the type and distribution of settlement on a parish level and in a rural context, in the regions along the Vardar Valley. Not attempting to offer a representative coverage of the region as a whole or...
Warsaw/Berlin: De Gruyter Open, 2015. — 485 pp. — ISBN: 978-3-11-044496-4. Turkey’s northern edge is a region of contrasts and diversity. From the rugged peaks of the Pontic mountains and hidden inland valleys to the plains and rocky alcoves of the Black Sea coast, this landscape shaped and was shaped by its inhabitants’ ways of life, their local cultural traditions, and the...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 264 p. This book is the culmination of the author's lifelong interest in the Roman to medieval transition in England and in the analysis of the historic landscape of Wessex. It begins with a focused, referenced, and critical exploration of the thorny, but crucial, issues of post-Roman personal and group identity, employing linguistic, historical,...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 264 p. This book is the culmination of the author's lifelong interest in the Roman to medieval transition in England and in the analysis of the historic landscape of Wessex. It begins with a focused, referenced, and critical exploration of the thorny, but crucial, issues of post-Roman personal and group identity, employing linguistic, historical,...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 121 p. Atti della Giornata di Studi dei Dottorandi in Archeologia (Pisa, 22 novembre 2019). XXXIV ciclo di Dottorato in Scienze dell’Antichità e Archeologia Consorzio delle Università di Firenze, Pisa e Siena Questo volume è dedicato agli Atti del Convegno Paesaggi urbani e rurali in trasformazione organizzato dalla Scuola di Dottorato delle Università di...
Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2017. — 519 p. Quaternary Paleoenvironments examines the drowned landscapes exposed as extensive and attractive territory for prehistoric human settlement during the Ice Ages of the Pleistocene, when sea levels dropped to 120m-135m below their current levels. This volume provides an overview of the geological, geomorphological, climatic and sea-level history...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 208 p. Mediterranean Landscapes in Post Antiquity: New frontiers and new perspectives highlights the fact that the study of landscape has in recent years been a field for considerable analytical archaeological experimentation. This new situation has made it possible to rethink the orientation of some theoretical approaches to the subject; equally these...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 288 p. "Shamanism" is a term with specific anthropological roots, but which is used more generally to cover a set of interactions between a practitioner or "shaman" and a spiritual or religious realm beyond the reach of most members of the community. It has often been considered from an anthropological viewpoint, but this book gathers the most recent...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 288 p. "Shamanism" is a term with specific anthropological roots, but which is used more generally to cover a set of interactions between a practitioner or "shaman" and a spiritual or religious realm beyond the reach of most members of the community. It has often been considered from an anthropological viewpoint, but this book gathers the most recent...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 402 p. This volume describes the results of the Longstones Project , a joint-universities programme of excavation and survey designed to develop a fuller understanding of the context and dynamics of monument construction in the later Neolithic (3rd millennium BC) of the Avebury region, Wiltshire. Several elements of this internationally important...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 402 p. This volume describes the results of the Longstones Project , a joint-universities programme of excavation and survey designed to develop a fuller understanding of the context and dynamics of monument construction in the later Neolithic (3rd millennium BC) of the Avebury region, Wiltshire. Several elements of this internationally important...
Fribourg: Academic Press, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2007. — 306 p. Nineteenth-century Interpretations of the AST The Garden of Eden. Asherah and May-pole. The date palm. Fertilization. Genies and cherubim. The cone, the bucket and the climate. Part II. The Date Palm Theory since 1900 . Fertilization triumphant. Resistance to the fertilization theory. Climatic considerations. Bucket...
Routledge, 2023. — 522 p. Cultural landscapes, which in the field of heritage studies and practice relates to caring for and safeguarding heritage landscapes, is a concept embedded in contemporary conservation. Heritage conservation has shifted from an historical focus on buildings, city centres, and archaeological sites to encompass progressively more diverse forms of heritage...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 496 p. Long before the Norman Conquest of 1066, England saw periods of profound change that transformed the landscape and the identities of those who occupied it. The Bronze and Iron Ages saw the introduction of now-familiar animals and plants, such as sheep, horses, wheat, and oats, as well as new forms of production and exchange and the first...
Springer, 2022. — 125 p. This book discusses Turkey's karst systems' most critical features, one of the world's most important karst areas. This publication has been prepared to assist geologists and professionals working in karst areas by solving several different problems, for example, to conduct groundwater analysis in regions with karstic depressions and examine subsidence...
Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. — 176 p. — (Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology). Collaboration between prehistorians and palaeoecologists is radically changing our understanding of the relationship between landscape, land use and human settlement in Greece. The chapters in this volume include case studies and broader syntheses, developments of both on-site and off-site...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 270 p. People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices. This volume presents a series of archaeological...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 270 p. People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices. This volume presents a series of archaeological...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 327 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
In mid-twentieth-century Britain, an archaeological vision of the British landscape reassured and enchanted a number of writers, artists, photographers, and film-makers. From John Piper, Eric Ravilious and Shell guide books, to photographs of bomb damage, aerial archaeology, and The Wizard of Oz, Kitty...
1st Edition — Routledge, 2000. — 208 p. — ISBN 978-0340731147 Cultural landscapes are usually understood within physical geography as those transformed by human action. As human influence on the earth increases, advances in palaeocological reconstruction have also allowed for new interpretations of the evidence for the earliest human impacts on the environment. It is essential...
Boydell Press, 2010. — 244 p. The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial to the development of the English landscape, but is rarely studied. The essays here provide radical new interpretations of its development. Traditional opinion has perceived the Anglo-Saxons as creating an entirely new landscape from scratch in the fifth and sixth centuries AD, cutting down woodland, and bringing...
University Press of Florida, 2020. — 497 p. — (Maya studies). This volume brings together a wide spectrum of new approaches to ancient Maya studies in an innovative exploration of how the Preclassic and Classic Maya shaped their world. Moving beyond the towering temples and palaces typically associated with the Maya civilization, contributors present unconventional examples of...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 270 p. Mobile Peoples – Permanent Places explores the relationship between nomadic communities who resided in the Black Desert of north-eastern Jordan between c. 300 BC and 900 AD and the landscapes they inhabited and extensively modified. Although these communities were highly mobile, moving through the desert following seasonal variation in natural...
London: Routledge, 2012 — 184 p. — ISBN10: 1409429717; ISBN13: 978-1409429715. The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined. What part, then, does imagining landscapes play in their perception? The contributors to this volume, drawn from a range of disciplines, argue that landscapes are 'imagined' in a sense more fundamental than their...
Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006 — 266 p. — ISBN10: 1405101601; ISBN13: 978-1405101608. Ideas of Landscape discusses the current theory and practice of landscape archaeology and offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the established empirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporary relevance. The first historical...
Sidestone Press, 2020. — 200 p. — (Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 50). This volume is themed around the interdependent relationship between humans and the environment, an important topic in the work of Corrie Bakels. How do environmental constraints and opportunities influence human behaviour and what is the human impact on the ecology and appearance of the landscape? And...
Amsterdam University Press, 2012. — 560 p. — ISBN13 9789089644183. — ISBN10 9089644180. Researchers in landscape archaeology use two different definitions of landscape. One definition (landscape as territory) is used by the processual archaeologists, earth scientists, and most historical geographers within this volume. By contrast, post-processual archaeologists, new cultural...
Sidestone Press, 2021. — 110 p. — (CLUES 6). There has been an increasing archaeological interest in human-animal-nature relations, where archaeology has shifted from a focus on deciphering meaning, or understanding symbols and the social construction of the landscape to an acknowledgement of how things, places and the environment contribute with their own agencies to the...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 346 p. New Agendas in Remote Sensing and Landscape Archaeology in the Near East is a collection of papers produced in honour of Tony James Wilkinson, who was Professor of Archaeology at Durham University from 2006 until his death in 2014. Though commemorative in concept, the volume is an assemblage of new research representing emerging agendas and...
London: Routledge. 2005. 528 p. ISBN: 0-203-20244-9; ISBN: 0-203-26619-6 (Adobe eReader Format); ISBN: 0-415-11767-4 (Print Edition) This text presents revised versions of 28 papers given at the third World Archaeological Congress held in New Delhi in 1994. Contributors from the British Isles, Scandinavia, North and South America, India, Australia and the Pacific demonstrate...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 169 p. — (BAR International Series 2921). Il libro, frutto degli studi dellautore effettuati durante il suo PhD in Archeologia e perfezionati negli anni successivi, presenta unindagine a carattere territoriale di un tratto della bassa pianura veneta che si estende a sud della citt'e di Padova, tra i Colli Euganei e il bacino meridionale della Laguna di...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 969 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–957349–3. The Oxford History of Wetland Archaeology is a comprehensive survey of global wetland archaeology. 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...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 520 p. Despite being one of the most successful branches of mainstream archaeology, wetland archaeology, as an academic discipline, is still relatively unknown. We might have all heard of the wonderfully preserved organic artefacts and ecofacts found in waterlogged conditions, but do we really know how they were preserved, found, retrieved, and...
Archaeopress, 2025. — 228 p. Este libro nos acerca a diversas comunidades que habitaron el espacio rural de la Península Ibérica en el pasado. A partir de los datos obtenidos mediante la prospección y la excavación, cada capítulo ofrece una mirada panorámica y actualizada sobre la arqueología de las comunidades rurales. Para ello, atiende a la organización espacial de los...
Sidestone Press, 2022. — 207 p. Landscape-archaeology projects have had a significant impact on our understanding of the deep history of the Greek countryside, but have overwhelmingly been limited to the plains and have rarely placed the Ottoman period at their core. This investigation of Zagori in Northwest Greece explores the archaeology and cultural history of a mountainous...
Proceedings of the International Workshop “Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes (1st - 4th April 2009)”. — Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 2010. — 307 pp. — ISBN: 978-3-7749-3709-3. “Landscape“ as a product of both environmental conditions and human space design is one of the most important issues in coming to terms with current problems....
Oxbow Books, 2007. — 306 p. This edited volume of 16 papers provides an introduction to the techniques and methodologies, approaches and potential of environmental archaeology within Ireland. Each of the 16 invited contributions focuses on a particular aspect of environmental archaeology and include such specialist areas as radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 264 p. Most people believe that traditional landscapes did not survive the collapse of Roman Britain, and that medieval open fields and commons originated in Anglo-Saxon innovations unsullied by the past. The argument presented here tests that belief by contrasting the form and management of early medieval fields and pastures with those of the...
Oxbow Books, 2009. — 425 p. The Till-Tweed river catchment areas in Northumberland contain outstanding archaeological and palaeoenvironmental remains which have been in general only poorly understood. This study has assembled detailed data that will provide a platform for future landscape-based research and site-based investigation. Written from a landscape, or...
Oxbow Books, 2015. — 128 p. The site at Mill Lane, Sawston, represents millennia of human activity within a dynamic and changing landscape setting. River valleys have been a focus for human activity since the early Holocene and, in addition to providing abundant archaeological evidence for this activity, the proximity to water also highlights the potential for the preservation...
Oxbow Books, 2015. — 128 p. The site at Mill Lane, Sawston, represents millennia of human activity within a dynamic and changing landscape setting. River valleys have been a focus for human activity since the early Holocene and, in addition to providing abundant archaeological evidence for this activity, the proximity to water also highlights the potential for the preservation...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2018. — 234 p. Mountain landscapes were first exploited by farming populations at the very beginning of the Neolithic. However, there are controversies regarding when and where these specific types of human behaviour developed as a result of adaptation processes to these special environments. The aim of People in the Mountains: Current Approaches to...
CRC Press, 2017. — 352 p. — (CRC Revivals). This volume, the result of an International Conference on Wet Site Archaeology funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, explores the rewards and responsibilities of recovering unique assemblages from water-saturated deposits. Characteristics common to all archaeological wet sites are identified from Newfoundland to Chile,...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 300 p. — (BAR International Series 2814). This book focuses on the Bronze Age population of an area that corresponds to the modern administrative Province of Parma, Italy. In the plain near the River Taro, during the second half of the XIX century, Pigorini (the godfather of Italian palethnology) found the first sites of the so-called Terramare Culture....
Routledge, 2021. — 280 p. This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing physical landscapes as living cultural bodies. It redefines dynamic cultural landscapes as catalysts in which the natural world and human practice are inextricably linked and are constantly interacting. Drawing on research by eminent archaeologists, numismatists and historians, the essays in this volume...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 464 p. This book explores the development of territorial identity in the late prehistoric, Roman, and early medieval periods. Over the course of the Iron Age, a series of marked regional variations in material culture and landscape character emerged across eastern England that reflect the development of discrete zones of social and economic...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 416 p. Why is it that in some places around the world communities live in villages, while elsewhere people live in isolated houses scattered across the landscape? How does archaeology analyse the relationship between man and his environment? Making Sense of an Historic Landscape explores why landscapes are so varied and how the landscape...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 288 p. This volume presents the results of diachronic archaeological and palaeoecological research conducted in two study areas: the intermontane Kazanlak Valley along the Upper Tundzha River of central Bulgaria, and the Thracian Plain along the Middle Tundzha River south of the city of Yambol in southeastern Bulgaria. The Tundzha Regional Archaeology...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 288 p. This volume presents the results of diachronic archaeological and palaeoecological research conducted in two study areas: the intermontane Kazanlak Valley along the Upper Tundzha River of central Bulgaria, and the Thracian Plain along the Middle Tundzha River south of the city of Yambol in southeastern Bulgaria. The Tundzha Regional Archaeology Project...
Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Archaeology, 2016. — 209 p. An Archaeological Study of the Bayeux Tapestry provides a unique re-examination of this famous piece of work through the historical geography and archaeology of the tapestry. Trevor Rowley is the first author to have analysed the tapestry through the landscapes, buildings and structures shown, such as towns and castles,...
Academic Press, 1979. — xvi, 644 p. — ISBN: 0-12-639120-3. Volcanic Activity and Human Ecology deals with dating, chronology, stratigraphy, volcanic activity, and with the impacts of volcanism on animals, plants, human populations, and the environment. Some of the chapters explain how such findings must be weighed against other causes that influence human behavior and survival,...
Windgather Press, 2021. — 240 p. Renowned environmental historian I.G. Simmons synthesises detailed research into the landscape history of the coastal area of Lincolnshire between Boston and Skegness and its hinterland of Tofts, Low Grounds and Fen as far as the Wolds. With many excellent illustrations Simmons chronicles the ways in which this low coast, backed by a wet fen,...
Windgather Press, 2021. — 240 p. Renowned environmental historian I.G. Simmons synthesizes detailed research into the landscape history of the coastal area of Lincolnshire between Boston and Skegness and its hinterland of Tofts, Low Grounds and Fen as far as the Wolds. With many excellent illustrations Simmons chronicles the ways in which this low coast, backed by a wet fen,...
Routledge, 2018. — 336 p. The study of conflict archaeology has developed rapidly over the last decade, fuelled in equal measure by technological advances and creative analytical frameworks. Nowhere is this truer than in the inter-disciplinary fields of archaeological practice that combine traditional sources such as historical photographs and maps with 3D digital topographic...
Routledge, 2018. — 336 p. The study of conflict archaeology has developed rapidly over the last decade, fuelled in equal measure by technological advances and creative analytical frameworks. Nowhere is this truer than in the inter-disciplinary fields of archaeological practice that combine traditional sources such as historical photographs and maps with 3D digital topographic...
Springer Dordrecht, 2004. — 222 p. — ISBN 978-1-4020-2105-3 Cultural landscapes are created by people, and used by people, but still decidedly rich in biodiversity, and in harmony with nature. The landscapes of fairy tales, without dragons. Socio-economic complexity on top of biological diversity is the challenge nature conservation faces in the context of cultural landscape....
Routledge, 2014 — 412 p. — ISBN 9781315813226 New approaches to both cultural landscapes and historic urban landscapes increasingly recognize the need to guide future change, rather than simply protecting the fabric of the past. Challenging traditional notions of historic preservation, Conserving Cultural Landscapes takes a dynamic multifaceted approach to conservation. It...
University Press of Florida, 2023. — 296 p. In this volume, contributors apply human behavioral ecology theoretical models to coastal environments around the globe and to the use of coastal resources by past human societies. Evidence demonstrates that coastlines and islands are dynamic environments that were important in early human migrations, and this volume shows how...
With the assistance of Wayne Bennett. — Left Coast Press, 2008. — 288 p. The understanding and interpretation of ancient architecture, landscapes, and art has always been viewed through an iconographic lens - a cognitive process based on traditional practices in art history. But ancient people did not ascribe their visions on canvas, rather on hills, stones, and fields. Thus,...
With the assistance of Wayne Bennett. — Routledge, 2008. — 288 p. The understanding and interpretation of ancient architecture, landscapes, and art has always been viewed through an iconographic lens - a cognitive process based on traditional practices in art history. But ancient people did not ascribe their visions on canvas, rather on hills, stones, and fields. Thus, Chris...
Routledge, 2012. — 536 p. This book takes a new approach to writing about the past. Instead of studying the prehistory of Britain from Mesolithic to Iron Age times in terms of periods or artifact classifications, Tilley examines it through the lens of their geology and landscapes, asserting the fundamental significance of the bones of the land in the process of human occupation...
With the assistance of Wayne Bennett. — Berg, 2004. — 260 p. From the silky wax qualities of the surfaces of some quartz menhirs to the wood-grain textures of others, to the golden honeycombed limestones of Malta, to the icy frozen waves of the Cambrian sandstone of south-east Sweden, this book investigates the sensuous material qualities of stone. Tactile sensations, sonorous...
Oxford: Berg, 1997 — 224 p. — ISBN10: 1859730760; ISBN13: 978-1859730768. Offers a new approach to landscape perception. This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the landscape in small-scale societies. This...
Bristol Classical Press, 2006. — 144 p. This series of short volumes, each devoted to a theme, which is the subject of contemporary debate in archaeology, ranges from issues in theory and method to aspects of world archaeology. Wetland archaeology has provided some of the most exciting discoveries in world archaeology, from bog bodies in northern Europe, to prehistoric and...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 296 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–956620–4. This innovative study offers an up-to-date analysis of the archaeology of the North Sea. Robert Van de Noort traces the way people engaged with the North Sea from the end of the last ice age, around 10,000 BC, to the close of the Middle Ages, about AD 1500. Van de Noort draws upon archaeological research from...
University of Chester Press, 2012. — 294 p. From optical remote-sensing technology (lidar) to more traditional forms of landscape analysis and documentary research, this volume brings together the work of both amateur and professional historians and archaeologists, united in their enthusiasm for the landscape of north-west England and north-east Wales. This collection of...
The Guilford Press, 2005. — 406 p. — ISBN 978-1593851194. This compelling book offers a fresh perspective on how the natural world has been imagined, built on, and transformed by human beings throughout history and around the globe. Coverage ranges from the earliest societies to preindustrial China and India, from the emergence in Europe of the modern world to the contemporary...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 224 p. Nineteen essays present wide-ranging approaches to environmental reconstruction across Mediterranean Europe with case studies from southern and central France, central Italy, Spain, Greece, Slovenia and Turkey. It is Volume Two in the Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes series, which published five volumes as part of the POPULUS Project which...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 384 p. This volume presents a comprehensive review of palaeoenvironmental evidence and its incorporation with landscape archaeology from across the Mediterranean. A fundamental aim of this book is to bridge the intellectual and methodological gaps between those with a background in archaeology and ancient history, and those who work in the...
Head of Zeus, 2014. — 272 p. A beautiful new edition of a classic work of landscape history, in which Alfred Watkins introduced the idea of ancient "ley lines" criss-crossing the English countryside First published in 1925, this book outlined its author's concept of "ley lines," supposed pre-Roman pathways consisting of aligned stone circles, standing stones, and prehistoric...
University of Arizona Press, 2003. — 270 p. Many fundamental studies of the origins of states have built upon landscape data, but an overall study of the Near Eastern landscape itself has never been attempted. Spanning thousands of years of history, the ancient Near East presents a bewildering range of landscapes, the understanding of which can greatly enhance our ability to...
University of Arizona Press, 2003. — 270 p. Many fundamental studies of the origins of states have built upon landscape data, but an overall study of the Near Eastern landscape itself has never been attempted. Spanning thousands of years of history, the ancient Near East presents a bewildering range of landscapes, the understanding of which can greatly enhance our ability to...
Springer, 2021. — 116 p. This book comprehensively reviews the historical background of speleology and cave research in the contexts of archeology and natural sciences. It also offers a summary of selected topics related to the karstic terrain of Turkey. Covering 40 % of the country's surface area, Turkey's karstic terrain accommodates thousands of caves. However, understanding...
Routledge, 2022. — 278 p. Archaeology in Antarctica outlines the history of archaeology in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic. The book details for the first time all past archaeological work in Antarctica, relating to both its use for conservation and research purposes, drawing on published, unpublished and oral information. This work has addressed historic and current scientific...
М.: Наука, 2007. — 243 с. — ISBN: 5-02-035744-8. Монография посвящена природно-антропогенной эволюции почв в условиях вековой изменчивости климата. Впервые показано, что антропогенное воздействие общества эпохи бронзы внесло значительный вклад в формирование почв речных долин степной зоны, в частности, степного Зауралья. Нагрузку на ландшафт предложено оценивать по количеству...
М.: Наука, 2007. — 243 с. — ISBN: 5-02-035744-8. Монография посвящена природно-антропогенной эволюции почв в условиях вековой изменчивости климата. Впервые показано, что антропогенное воздействие общества эпохи бронзы внесло значительный вклад в формирование почв речных долин степной зоны, в частности, степного Зауралья. Нагрузку на ландшафт предложено оценивать по количеству...
Монография. — М.: Наука, 1991. — 221 с. — ISBN: 5-02-005471-2. В монографии изложен обширный материал палинологического изучения важнейших разрезов верхнеплейстоцен-голоценовых отложений бассейна Дона, методика и результаты спорово-пыльцевого анализа археологических памятников. Дано палионологическое обоснование возраста культур древнего человека и созданы реконструкции...
М.: НИА-Природа, Фонд "Инфосфера", 2007. — 228 с. — ISBN: 5-9562-0037-5. В монографии рассмотрены результаты почвенно-археологических исследований свыше 50 курганов хазарского (VIII-IX века) и золотоордынского (XIII-XIV века) времени, приуроченных к различным природным районам степей Нижнего Поволжья. Установлено, что по сравнению с предшествующим временем и современностью...
М.: НИА-Природа, Фонд "Инфосфера", 2007. — 228 с. — ISBN: 5-9562-0037-5. В монографии рассмотрены результаты почвенно-археологических исследований свыше 50 курганов хазарского (VIII-IX века) и золотоордынского (XIII-XIV века) времени, приуроченных к различным природным районам степей Нижнего Поволжья. Установлено, что по сравнению с предшествующим временем и современностью...
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