Routledge, 2000. — 384 p. — (One World Archaeology; 39). — ISBN: 0-415-23001-2. Many dryland regions contain archaeological remains which suggest that there must have been intensive phases of settlement in what now seem to be dry and degraded environments. This book discusses successes and failures of past land use and settlement in drylands, and contributes to wider debates...
Liecester University Press, 1995. — 351 p. — ISBN: 0-7185-1906-X. From the lakeside encampment of Stone Age scavengers three-quarters of a million years ago to the problems facing modern-day farmers, A Mediterranean Valley documents the long-term settlement history of the Biferno Valley in central-southern Italy, analysing the symbiotic relationship of its landscape and its...
Routledge, 2016. — 719 p. — (World Archaeological Congress research handbooks in archaeology; 1). — ISBN: 978-1-59874-294-7. Over the past three decades, “landscape” has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist’s experience of the natural world, from human impact on past...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 224 p. Late Antique and Early Medieval Hispania. Landscapes without Strategy? examines the transformations of the urban and rural landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula, across one of the most turbulent periods of the history of this region, between the decay and disappearance of the Roman Empire and the arrival of the Islamic troops (c. AD 400-711). It...
Warsaw/Berlin: De Gruyter Open, 2015. — 485 p. — ISBN: 978-3-11-044496-4. Turkey’s northern edge is a region of contrasts and diversity. From the rugged peaks of the Pontic mountains and hidden inland valleys to the plains and rocky alcoves of the Black Sea coast, this landscape shaped and was shaped by its inhabitants’ ways of life, their local cultural traditions, and the...
Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2017. — 519 p. Quaternary Paleoenvironments examines the drowned landscapes exposed as extensive and attractive territory for prehistoric human settlement during the Ice Ages of the Pleistocene, when sea levels dropped to 120m-135m below their current levels. This volume provides an overview of the geological, geomorphological, climatic and sea-level history...
Fribourg: Academic Press, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2007. — 306 p. Nineteenth-century Interpretations of the AST The Garden of Eden. Asherah and May-pole. The date palm. Fertilization. Genies and cherubim. The cone, the bucket and the climate. Part II. The Date Palm Theory since 1900 . Fertilization triumphant. Resistance to the fertilization theory. Climatic considerations....
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 327 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). In mid-twentieth-century Britain, an archaeological vision of the British landscape reassured and enchanted a number of writers, artists, photographers, and film-makers. From John Piper, Eric Ravilious and Shell guide books, to photographs of bomb damage, aerial archaeology, and The Wizard of Oz, Kitty...
London: Routledge, 2012 — 184 p. — ISBN10: 1409429717; ISBN13: 978-1409429715. The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined. What part, then, does imagining landscapes play in their perception? The contributors to this volume, drawn from a range of disciplines, argue that landscapes are 'imagined' in a sense more fundamental than their...
Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006 — 266 p. — ISBN10: 1405101601; ISBN13: 978-1405101608. Ideas of Landscape discusses the current theory and practice of landscape archaeology and offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the established empirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporary relevance. The first historical...
London: Routledge. 2005. 528 p. ISBN: 0-203-20244-9; ISBN: 0-203-26619-6 (Adobe eReader Format); ISBN: 0-415-11767-4 (Print Edition) This text presents revised versions of 28 papers given at the third World Archaeological Congress held in New Delhi in 1994. Contributors from the British Isles, Scandinavia, North and South America, India, Australia and the Pacific demonstrate...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 969 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–957349–3. The Oxford History of Wetland Archaeology is a comprehensive survey of global wetland archaeology. Well known for the spectacular quality of its surviving evidence, from both an archaeological and environmental perspective, wetland archaeology enables scholars to investigate and reconstruct past people's...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 520 p. Despite being one of the most successful branches of mainstream archaeology, wetland archaeology, as an academic discipline, is still relatively unknown. We might have all heard of the wonderfully preserved organic artefacts and ecofacts found in waterlogged conditions, but do we really know how they were preserved, found, retrieved, and...
Proceedings of the International Workshop “Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes (1st - 4th April 2009)”. — Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 2010. — 307 p. — ISBN 978-3-7749-3709-3. “Landscape“ as a product of both environmental conditions and human space design is one of the most important issues in coming to terms with current problems....
Oxbow Books, 2007. — 306 p. This edited volume of 16 papers provides an introduction to the techniques and methodologies, approaches and potential of environmental archaeology within Ireland. Each of the 16 invited contributions focuses on a particular aspect of environmental archaeology and include such specialist areas as radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology,...
Barnsley, U.K.: Pen & Sword Archaeology, 2016. — 209 p. An Archaeological Study of the Bayeux Tapestry provides a unique re-examination of this famous piece of work through the historical geography and archaeology of the tapestry. Trevor Rowley is the first author to have analysed the tapestry through the landscapes, buildings and structures shown, such as towns and castles,...
Oxford: Berg, 1997 — 224 p. — ISBN10: 1859730760; ISBN13: 978-1859730768. Offers a new approach to landscape perception. This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the landscape in small-scale societies. This...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 296 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–956620–4. This innovative study offers an up-to-date analysis of the archaeology of the North Sea. Robert Van de Noort traces the way people engaged with the North Sea from the end of the last ice age, around 10,000 BC, to the close of the Middle Ages, about AD 1500. Van de Noort draws upon archaeological research from...
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