Molluscs in archaeology: methods, approaches, and applications

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The subject of 'Molluscs in Archaeology' has not been dealt with collectively for several decades. This new volume in Oxbow's 'Studying Scientific Archaeology' series addresses many aspects of molluscs in archaeology. It will give the reader an overview of the whole topic; methods of analysis and approaches to interpretation. It aims to be a broad based text book giving readers an insight of how to apply analysis to different present and past landscapes and how to interpret those landscapes.

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Full title :Molluscs in archaeology : methods, approaches, and applications / edited by Michael J. Allen.

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Publication Date:©2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxbow books
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2017

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"In conjunction with the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland and Allen Environmental Archaeology."

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 434 pages : : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781785706080, 178570608X
oclc:ocn977402412
LC Classification:CC79.5.M65
Dewey Decimal:930.1/0285

Molluscs in Archaeology; an introduction -- Part 1: Palaeo-environments; environment and land-use: Terrestrial habitats, contexts and landscapes -- 1. Land snails in archaeology -- 2. The geoarchaeology of context; sampling for land snails (on archaeological sites and colluvium) -- 3. Numerical approaches to land snail palaeoecology -- 4. Molluscs and the palaeo-environment of coastal blown sand and dunes -- 5. Molluscs from machair-dune systems: archaeological site formation processes and environmental change -- 6. Caves and molluscs -- Wetlands and Fresh- and Brackish-water -- 7. Molluscs from the floodplain alluvial sediments in the Thames Valley -- 8. Wetlands; freshwater and slum communities -- Part 2: Palaeo-environmental reconstruction: Europe, the Mediterranean and Near East -- 9. The southern English chalklands: molluscan evidence for the nature of the post-glacial woodland cover -- 10. (Some thoughts on) using molluscs for landscape reconstruction and ecology in Malta -- 11. Molluscan remains from Early to Middle Holocene sites in the Iron Gates reach of the Danube, Southeast Europe -- 12. Land Mollusc middens -- Part 3: Marine and Food and Diet -- 13. Marine molluscs fr…