Archaeology in environment and technology : intersections and transformations

Archaeology in environment and technology : intersections and transformations / edited by David Frankel, Jennifer M. Webb and Susan Lawrence.

Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways. The chapters in this book take environment, culture, and technology together. All have been the focus of much attention; often one or...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Frankel, David, 1946-, Webb, Jennifer M., Lawrence, Susan, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Routledge studies in archaeology ; 8.
Subjects:
Environmental archaeology > Case studies.
Landscape archaeology > Case studies.
Human geography > Case studies.
Agriculture, Prehistoric > Case studies.
Tools, Prehistoric > Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Agriculture, Prehistoric
Environmental archaeology
Human geography
Landscape archaeology
Tools, Prehistoric
Case studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Complex relations : intersections in time and space / David Frankel, Jennifer Webb & Susan Lawrence
  • Perspectives on global comparative hunter-gatherer archaeology : glacial southwest Tasmania and southwest France / Richard Cosgrove, Jean-Michel Geneste, Jean-Pierre Chadelle & Jean-Christophe Castel
  • Strategies for investigating human responses to changes in landscape and climate at Lake Mungo in the Willandra Lakes, southeast Australia / Nicola Stern, Jacqueline Tumney, Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons & Paul Kajewski
  • A new ecological framework for understanding human-environment interactions in arid Australia / Simon J. Holdaway, Matthew Douglass & Patricia C. Fanning
  • Integrating hunter-gatherer sites, environments, technology and art in western Victoria / David Frankel & Caroline Bird
  • Pushing the boundaries : imperial responses to environmental constraints in early Islamic Afghanistan / David C. Thomas
  • A long-term history of horticultural innovation and introduction in the highlands of Papua New Guinea / Tim Denham
  • Agricultural economies and pyrotechnologies in Bronze Age Jordan and Cyprus / Steven E. Falconer & Patricia L. Fall
  • Changing technological and social environments in the second half of the third millennium BC in Cyprus / Jennifer M. Webb
  • Landscape learning in colonial Australia : technologies of water management on the central highlands goldfields of Victoria / Susan Lawrence & Peter Davies
  • Exploring human-plant entanglements : the case of Australian dioscorea yams / Jennifer Atchison & Lesley Head
  • People and their environments : do cultural and natural values intersect in the cultural landscapes on the world heritage list? / Anita Smith.

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