Archaeology in environment and technology: intersections and transformations
by Frankel, David Lawrence, Susan Webb, Jennifer M.
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 other has been seen as the starting point for analysis, but this volume argues that it is the study of the inter-relationships between these three factors that offers a way forward. The contribution…
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- Full title :Archaeology in environment and technology : intersections and transformations / edited by David Frankel, Jennifer M. Webb and Susan Lawrence.
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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 other has been seen as the starting point for analysis, but this volume argues that it is the study of the inter-relationships between these three factors that offers a way forward. The contributions to this book pick up different strands within the tangled web of intersections between environme.
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- Publication Date:2013.
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- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781134626083, 1134626088, 0203508947, 9780203508947, 9781134626229, 1134626223, 9781134626151, 1134626150
- oclc:ocn841912492
- LC Classification:CC81
- Dewey Decimal:930.1
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 env…
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