(Išleidimo metai: 02-Jan-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009424448)
The Indus civilization in South Asia (c. 320 1500BC) was one of the most important Old World Bronze Age cultures. Located at the cross-roads of Asia, in modern Pakistan and India, it encompassed ca. one million square kilometers, making it one the...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Dec-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316513125)
Using various archaeological, environmental, and historical data, this book argues that changes in landscapes, climate, and rural practices were instrumental to Iron Age political formations on Cyprus. It offers new insights into landscape archaeolog...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Jan-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107052062)
In this book, Lee A. Newsom offers an overview of wood in archaeology --how and where it is preserved and analyzed, its relevance to paleoecological and paleoenvironmental questions, as well as its role as an important source of information in modern...Daugiau...
This volume will interest readers and students of archaeology, historical ecology, paleoecology, and wood science, especially as concerns understanding the vital role of wood and timber resources to past human societies. In this book, Lee A....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Jan-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108838511)
Ancient Mesoamerica was a land of cities (Fig 1.1.). Above all, it was the number and the density of cities that distinguished Mesoamerica from the complex societies in neighboring areas of North America and lower Central America. Further, although...Daugiau...
The book is aimed at and written for a broad audience interested in archaeology, genetics, Native Americans, human evolution, climate and environmental change, and Ice Ages, and will also have appeal to those teaching and conducting research in those...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Oct-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108498227)
The book is aimed at and written for a broad audience interested in archaeology, genetics, Native Americans, human evolution, climate and environmental change, and Ice Ages, and will also have appeal to those teaching and conducting research in those...Daugiau...
This book shows how money and technology have shaped our thinking and social and ecological relations, with disturbing consequences. It offers solutions for their redesign in ways that will promote justice and sustainability. It is aimed at scholars...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Jan-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107030084)
A detailed review of variations in the Asian monsoon since the mid-Holocene and its impacts on farming systems. This book assesses data and climate models predicting changes to the monsoon in the coming centuries, and discusses how past adaptive str...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-May-2020, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108491112)
Ground that was once the floor of the sea; sea rising up and snatching away ground. Folding hills, coastlines shaped and reshaped. There is nothing static about the terrain upon which we live and on which we depend. This book seeks to understand hum...Daugiau...
In the face of debates about the Anthropocene - a geological epoch of our own making - and contemporary concerns about ecological crisis and the Sixth Mass Extinction, it is more important than ever to locate the timeframe of human activity within th...Daugiau...
The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes examines the transformation of rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires in the Near East and Mediterranean. Through a comparative approach to archaeological data, it analyses th...Daugiau...
Serija: New Directions in Sustainability and Society
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Feb-2020, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108498692)
For a professional, educated non-academic audience, this book asks how our societies were caught in a socio-economic dynamic causing the sustainability conundrum. It develops an original view of social evolution as the history of human information-pr...Daugiau...
This book offers a new explanation for the spatial-political-environmental dynamics of water and irrigation in the long-term histories of two arid regions, Southwest Arabia (3500 BC-AD 600) and the American West (2000 BC-AD 1950)....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 24-Oct-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108499095)
This book provides new insights about the relationship between humans and birds in Northern Europe during the Bronze Age. It argues that birds as well as humans has an agency of their own which was contemplated in everyday practices as well as in his...Daugiau...
Serija: New Directions in Sustainability and Society
(Išleidimo metai: 27-Jun-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108429375)
This book shows how money and technology have shaped our thinking and social and ecological relations, with disturbing consequences. It offers solutions for their redesign in ways that will promote justice and sustainability. It is aimed at scholars...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Feb-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108480352)
This book is targeted to students and professionals in archaeology, paleontology, and paleoecology. The reconstruction of ancient environments on the basis of fossil animal remains is a staple of these disciplines. This book is the only one to outli...Daugiau...
Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments outlines the reconstruction of ancient climates, floras, and habitats on the basis of animal fossil remains recovered from archaeological and paleontological sites. In addition to outlining the ecological fundamenta...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Jan-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107179196)
The Nile Basin contains a record of human activities spanning the last million years. However, the interactions between prehistoric humans and environmental changes in this area are complex and often poorly understood. This comprehensive book explain...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Dec-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107156685)
The volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel/Palestine/Jordan) from the Paleolithic period to the Islamic era, presenting the past with chronologically changes from hunter-gatherers to e...Daugiau...
