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Conceptual issues in environmental archaeology
- Title
- Conceptual issues in environmental archaeology / edited by John L. Bintliff, Donald A. Davidson, Eric G. Grant.
- Publication
- Edinburgh : University Press, ©1988.
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- Description
- 320 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Congress
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Note
- Papers originally presented at a symposium held at the University of Oxford, Feb. 22-25, 1985.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Conceptual issues in environmental archaeology: an overview / Robert McC. Adams -- Section One: Conceptual issues at the site and microregion scale -- Introduction / Donald A. Davidson -- The role of soils in the interpretation of archaeological sites in northern Quebec / T.R. Moore and D. Denton -- Environmental reconstruction at Cul A' Bhaile, Isle of Jura / G. Whittington -- The contributions of shells to site interpretations: approaches to shell material from Franchthi cave / Margaret R. Deith and Judith C. Shackleton -- Thoughts on archaeology, geography and scales / P.J.R. Modderman -- The Tenta catchment: resource exploitation in Neolithic Cyprus / Malcolm Wagstaff -- On-site and off-site evidence for changes in subsistence economy: Iron Age and Romano-British West Wales / H.C. Mytum -- Some quantitative approaches to site territory and land use from the surface record / C.F. Gaffney and V.L. Gaffney -- Section two: From Micro-to-Macro-region -- Introduction / John Bintliff -- Defining the economic space of a typical Iron Age hillfort: Rodik (Yugoslavia), a case study / Bozidar Slapsak -- The reconstruction of environment, irrigation and development of settlement on the Habur in North-East Syria / Peter J. Ergenzinger, Wolfgang Frey, Hartmut Kuhne and Harald Kurschner -- Site patterning: separating environmental, cultural and preservation factors / John Bintliff.
- An integrative model for the use of different landscapes in Linearbandkeramik times / A.J. Kalis and A. Zimmermann -- Prehistoric agriculture in the New Guinea Hlighlands: problems in defining the altitudinal limits to growth / Tim Bayliss-Smith -- Trial by duree: a review of historical-geographical concepts relevant to the archaeology of settlement on Corsica and Sardinia / James Lewthwaite -- Section three: Conceptual issues associated with environmental and population change -- Introduction / Eric Grant -- Erosional equilibria under grazing / J.B. Thornes Environmental thresholds, catastrophes theory and landscape sensitivity: their relevance to the impact of man on valley alleviation / P.J. Burrin and R.G. Scaife -- Cultural and environmental change during the Palaeolithic: research methods combining geomorphology with prehistory / F. Hours and L. Copeland -- Palynology and human ecology: theory and method for the study of prehistoric agriculture / Stanton W. Green -- Smut, scab and pox: disease and environmental archaeology / Don Brothwell -- Interaction between the environment and social subsystems / W. Groenman-van Waateringe -- Foraging theory: mathematical modeling of socioecological change / K.V. Boyle and C.D. Wright -- Putting pressure on population: social alternatives to Malthus and Boserup / John Chapman.
- ISBN
- 0852245459
- 9780852245453
- 0852245467
- 9780852245460
- LCCN
- 88138185
- OCLC
- ocm20825575
- 20825575
- SCSB-1713478
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library