Six articles examine such topics as wood resources and their exploitation during the iron age occupation of Midden-Delfland, why the Maori buried artifacts in the wetlands of New Zealand, and the excavation and dating of Taino wooden structures at Los Buchillones, Cuba. Three book reviews conclude the journal. No index is provided. Volume one was published in June 2002. Distributed by The David Brown Book Company. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
The Journal of Wetland Archaeology is the journal of the Wetland Archaeological Research Project (WARP) and the University of Exeter Centre for Wetland Research.
Wood resources and their exploitation during the Iron Age occupation of
the fens of Midden-Delfland, The Netherlands (Cees Koot and Corrie Bakels)
The Squaxin Island Tribe and South Puget Sound Community College: Native
American coordination. An example of sharing the resource (Rhonda Foster and
Dale Croes )
Why did Māori bury artefacts in the wetlands of pre-contact Aotearoa/New
Zealand? (Caroline Phillips, Dilys Johns and Harry Allen)
Radiocarbon dates from Taino wooden structures at Los Buchillones, Cuba
(David Pendergast, Elizabeth Graham, Jorge Calvera and Juan Jardines)
Archaeological predictive modelling in raised mires - concerns and approaches
for their interpretation and management (Henry Chapman and Ben Gearey)
Flain landscapes and archaeology: Fluvial events and human agency (Tony
Brown)
Book Reviews
Stephen Rippon is Professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of Exeter, and President of the Society for Medieval Archaeology. His main research interests cover the Romano-British and medieval landscapes of Britain, and the origins of todays countryside.
