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

Published New York : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) : illustrations Series Routledge studies in archaeology ; 8 Routledge studies in archaeology ; 8. 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject 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 Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book Author Frankel, David, 1946- Webb, Jennifer M. Lawrence, Susan, 1966- ISBN 9781134626083 1134626088 0203508947 9780203508947 9781134626229 1134626223 9781134626151 1134626150

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