Land Snails in Archaeology
Author : John G. Evans
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : John G. Evans
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Paul Davies
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 2016-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782975942
The remains of snails in ancient soils and sediments are one of the most important biological indicators of past landscapes, and have attracted study for well over a century. In spite of this, the only English-language textbook was published in 1972 and is long since out of print. Snails provides a comprehensive, up to date reference text on the use of snails as indicators of past environments in Quaternary landscape studies and archaeology. It considers the use of terrestrial and freshwater sub-fossil snail remains as indicators of Late Quaternary (c. last 15,000 years) environmental change and as indicators of past environments and human impacts on the landscape. The volume also demonstrates how an understanding of modern snail ecology can be used to enhance our interpretation of landscape archaeology, and provides a detailed contextual approach to the main types of deposits in which snail remains are found. Davies also puts forward an agenda for future research on the use of snails in archaeological and environmental reconstruction.
Author : Michael J. Allen
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1785706098
The subject of ‘Molluscs in Archaeology’ has not been dealt with collectively for several decades. This new volume in Oxbow’s Studying Scientific Archaeology series addresses many aspects of mollusks in archaeology. It will give the reader an overview of the whole topic; methods of analysis and approaches to interpretation. It aims to be a broad based text book giving readers an insight of how to apply analysis to different present and past landscapes and how to interpret those landscapes. It includes Marine, Freshwater and land snails studies, and examines topics such as diet, economy, climate, environmental and land-use, isotopes and mollusks as artifacts. It aims to provide archaeologists and students with the first port of call giving them a) methods and principles, and b) the potential information mollusks can provide. It concentrates on analysis and interpretation most archaeologists and students can undertake and understand, and to 'review' the 'heavier' science in terms of potential, application and interpretational value.
Author : John Gwynne Evans
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Bivalves, Fossil
ISBN :
Author : John G. Evans
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Adam Tyler Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Coral reefs and islands
ISBN :
Author : Michael J. Allen
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 178570611X
The subject of ‘Molluscs in Archaeology’ has not been dealt with collectively for several decades. This new volume in Oxbow’s Studying Scientific Archaeology series addresses many aspects of mollusks in archaeology. It will give the reader an overview of the whole topic; methods of analysis and approaches to interpretation. It aims to be a broad based text book giving readers an insight of how to apply analysis to different present and past landscapes and how to interpret those landscapes. It includes Marine, Freshwater and land snails studies, and examines topics such as diet, economy, climate, environmental and land-use, isotopes and mollusks as artifacts. It aims to provide archaeologists and students with the first port of call giving them a) methods and principles, and b) the potential information mollusks can provide. It concentrates on analysis and interpretation most archaeologists and students can undertake and understand, and to 'review' the 'heavier' science in terms of potential, application and interpretational value.
Author : Roderick Thomas Wallace
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Animal remains (Archaeology)
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Animal remains (Archaeology)
ISBN :
Author : Bruno David
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 1991
Category :
ISBN :
Use of land snails as indicators of environmental change; species ecology; Holocene climate change in northern Australia.