Pişkin Evangelia, Marciniak Arkadiusz, Bartkowiak Marta (eds.) Environmental Archaeology: Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

Springer, 2018. — 248 p.This book aims to thoroughly discuss new directions of thinking in the arena of environmental archaeology and test them by presenting new practical applications.Recent theoretical and epistemological advancement in the field of archaeology calls for a re-definition of the subdiscipline of environmental archaeology and its position within the practice of archaeology.New technological and methodological discoveries in hard sciences and computer applications opened fresh ways for interdisciplinary collaborations thus introducing new branches and specialisations that need now to be accommodated and integrated within the previous status-quo.This edited volume will take the challenge and engage with contemporary international discussions about the role of the discipline within the general framework of archaeology. By drawing upon these debates, the contributors to this volume will rethink what environmental archaeology is and what kind of input the investigation of this kind of materiality has to the reconstruction of human history and sociality.Evangelia Pişkin received her Ph.D. from Leicester University, UK. She is Associated Professor at the Department of Settlement Archaeology, Middle East Technical University, Turkey. Arkadiusz Marciniak holds Ph.D. from the University of Poznań, Poland, where he currently works as a Professor of Archaeology. Marta Bartkowiak received her M.A. at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and she is currently completing her Ph.D. dissertation regarding the problem of introduction and intensification of production and consumption of milk and dairy products among the Neolithic communities of NW Anatolia and Central Serbia.