Book Description
Eleven papers based on a 1985 Bristol conference which considered fauna, molluscs, peats, pollens and other environmental factors from sites in the south west.
Author : Nicholas D. Balaam
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Science
ISBN :
Eleven papers based on a 1985 Bristol conference which considered fauna, molluscs, peats, pollens and other environmental factors from sites in the south west.
Author : Catherine Barnett
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1803270853
Dedicated to Martin Bell (University of Reading), this book outlines how wetland and inland environments can be related and investigated using multi-method approaches. Papers fall under three themes: coastal and intertidal archaeology; mobility and human-environment relationships; heritage resource management, nature conservation and rewilding.
Author : Peter Murphy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1847251439
A study of how the coastline of Britain has changed and interacted with mankind over the centuries. Economic and social factors are explored as well as the problems of climate change and what may be in store for us in the future.
Author : Stephen Rippon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0199203822
The varied character of Britain's countryside and towns provides communities with a strong sense of local identity. One of the most significant features of the southern British landscape is the way that its character differs from region to region, with compact villages in the Midlands contrasting with the sprawling hamlets of East Anglia and isolated farmsteads of Devon. Even more remarkable is the very 'English' feel of the landscape in southern Pembrokeshire, in the far south west of Wales. Hoskins described the English landscape as 'the richest historical record we possess', and in this book Stephen Rippon explores the origins of regional variations in landscape character, arguing that while some landscapes date back to the centuries either side of the Norman Conquest, other areas across southern Britain underwent a profound change around the 8th century AD.
Author : T. Douglas Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 2000-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521665728
Essays by leading specialists on a central issue of European history: the transition to farming.
Author : Tom Moore
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 178969535X
This book explores the changing nature of power and identity from the Iron Age to the Roman period in Britain. It provides fresh insights into the origins and nature of one of the lesser-known, but perhaps most significant, Late Iron Age 'oppida' in Britain: Bagendon in Gloucestershire.
Author : Brigitte Resl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1350995126
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 A Cultural History of Animals in the Medieval Age investigates the changing roles of animals in medieval culture, economy and society in the period 1000 to 1400. The period saw significant changes in scientific and philosophical approaches to animals as well as their representation in art. Animals were omnipresent in medieval everyday life. They had enormous importance for medieval agriculture and trade and were also hunted for food and used in popular entertainments. At the same time, animals were kept as pets and used to display their owner's status, whilst medieval religion attributed complex symbolic meanings to animals. A Cultural History of Animals in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period and continues with essays on the position of animals in contemporary symbolism, hunting, domestication, sports and entertainment, science, philosophy, and art.
Author : Stephen Rippon
Publisher :
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1789256224
This second volume presenting the research carried out through the Exeter: A Place in Time project presents a series of specialist contributions that underpin the general overview published in the first volume. Chapter 2 provides summaries of the excavations carried out within the city of Exeter between 1812 and 2019, while Chapter 3 draws together the evidence for the plan of the legionary fortress and the streets and buildings of the Roman town. Chapter 4 presents the medieval documentary evidence relating to the excavations at three sites in central Exeter (High Street, Trichay Street and Goldsmith Street), with the excavation reports being in Chapter 5-7. Chapter 8 reports on the excavations and documentary research at Rack Street in the south-east quarter of the city. There follows a series of papers covering recent research into the archaeometallurgical debris, dendrochronology, Roman pottery, Roman ceramic building material, Roman querns and millstones, Claudian coins, an overview of the Roman coins from Exeter and Devon, medieval pottery, and the human remains found in a series of medieval cemeteries.
Author : James Walker
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1785709496
Building on the first Wild Things volume (Oxbow Books 2014), which aimed to showcase the research putting archaeologists researching the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic at the cutting edge of understanding humanity’s past, this collection of contributions presents recent research from an international group of both early career and established scientists. Covering aspects of both Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research in order to encourage dialogue between practitioners of archaeology of both periods, contributions are also geographically diverse, touching on British, European, North American, and Asian archaeology. Topics covered include transitional periods, deer and people, stone tool technologies, pottery, land-use, antler frontlets, and the development of prehistoric archaeology an 'age of wonder'.
Author : Pamela Crabtree
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1135582971
This is the first reference work to cover the archaeology of medieval Europe. No other reference can claim such comprehensive coverage--from Ireland to Russia and from Scandinavia to Italy, the archaeology of the entirety of medieval Europe is discussed.