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Conceptual Issues in Environmental Archaeology

by: Bintliff, J. Davidson, D.A. Grant, E.G.

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Category: Prehistory
Code: 8656
ISBN-13: 9780852245460 / 978-0-85224-546-0
ISBN-10: 0852245467 / 0-85224-546-7
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication Date: 1988
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Binding: Paper
Pages: 320
Book Condition: As New

Conceptual issues in environmental archaeology
Authors:J. L. Bintliff, Donald A. Davidson, Eric G. Grant

320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm


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


Papers originally presented at a symposium held at the University of Oxford, Feb. 22-25, 1985

 
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