Demonstrates for practising archaeologists, with case studies, how phytolith analysis can contribute to our knowledge of past human behaviour, economies and environments. Phytoliths are microscopic silica bodies formed in and around plant cel...Daugiau...
Develops and expands current research into the concept of economic circularity, whereby societies reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products....Daugiau...
Archaeology in the past century has seen a major shift from theoretical frameworks that treat the remains of past societies as static snapshots of particular moments in time to interpretations that prioritize change and variability. Though establishe...Daugiau...
Between 2018 and 2019, Cornwall Archaeological Unit undertook two projects at Mounts Bay, Penwith. The first involved the excavation of a Bronze Age barrow and the second, environmental augur core sampling in Marazion Marsh. Both sites lie within an...Daugiau...
An accessible introduction to the ecology and formation processes of peatlands, and to the different archaeological and palaeoenvironmental techniques that have been developed and adapted for the study of these environments. Peatlands are reg...Daugiau...
An exploration of the impact of human activity on, and adaptation to changes in, soils in different climatic and vegetational zones around the world. This book charts and explains how human activities have shaped and altered the development o...Daugiau...
Latest in the Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers series arising from the NSG conference of November 2019. This collection showcases and explores the wide range of current work on causewayed enclosures and related sites, and assesses what we still...Daugiau...
A theoretical discussion of the archaeology of the Ionian Sea, offering a geographically and culturally comparative approach ranging from the earliest Palaeolithic evidence of human presence in the region to the end of the Bronze Age. Present...Daugiau...
This book investigates the complex relationship between funerary treatment and wider social dynamics through a contextual analysis of human skeletal remains and associated mortuary data from Voudeni, an important Mycenaean (1400-1050 BC) chamber tomb...Daugiau...
Provides an overview of cutting-edge research in Old World zooarchaeology, covering a geographic area ranging from Western Asia to Western Europe. This new collection of papers from leading experts provides an overview of cutting-edge researc...Daugiau...
Analysis of the transition to sedentary farming in the Fertile Crescent and the establishment of Neolithic culture based on major excavations in Iraq. The Eastern Fertile Crescent region of western Iran and eastern Iraq hosted major developme...Daugiau...
All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domestication and agricultural origins worldwide. This fact affects every aspect of our understan...Daugiau...
This latest volume in the Butrint (Albania) monograph series provides a detailed description and discussion of Romanmedieval finds (excluding pottery) and environmental data from excavation of the Triconch Palace at Butrint, including metal-working...Daugiau...
European studies of the Bell Beaker phenomenon have concentrated on burial and artefacts that constitute its the most visible aspects. This volume concentrates on the domestic sphere – assemblage composition, domestic structures...Daugiau...
This book is about sustainable agriculture and architecture in the past and the engineering works that supported them, but it also looks to the future. Ancient technologies are what engineers define as intermediate, which means tha...Daugiau...
Much has been written on marine fishing and the migratory eel and salmon. Less attention has focused on the obligate freshwater species, primarily the native pike, perch, cyprinids and introduced species of which the most significant is carp....Daugiau...
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 alon...Daugiau...
Between 2006 and 2009 Worcestershire Archaeology completed a series of investigations in advance of quarrying at Clifton Quarry, Worcestershire revealing one of the most important sequences of prehistoric to early medieval activity d...Daugiau...
Archaeology often struggles in envisioning real people behind the world of material objects it studies. Even when dealing with skeletal remains archaeologists routinely reduce them to long lists of figures and attributes. Such a fragmentation of past...Daugiau...
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The Journal of Wetland Archaeology is the journal of the Wetland Archaeology Research Project (WARP).The journal covers all fields of wetland archaeology, from methodology to synthesis and theory and all periods and geographic regions are covered....Daugiau...
