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1 online resource (xxii, 236 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans |
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Prehistoric society research paper ; no. 2 |
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Prehistoric Society research paper.
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| Contents |
pt. I. John, Environmental Archaeology, Experiment and Philosophy -- 1. Professor John Gwynne Evans, 1941-2005 aka 'Snails' Evans -- an appreciation / Michael J. Allen -- 2. Culture and Environment; mind the gap / Terry O'Connor -- 3. 'We opened up a really nice porcelain door handle' / Steve Mills -- 4. Experimental Archaeology: changing science agendas and perceptual perspectives / Martin Bell -- pt. 2. Trees and Chalklands -- 5. If you go Down the Woods Today; a re-evaluation of chalkland postglacial woodland; implications for prehistoric communities / Michael J. Allen and Julie Gardiner -- 6. Land Snails and Woodland Clearances: modern ecological studies and their archaeological implications / Paul Davies and Neville Gardner -- 7. Peopling the landscape; prehistory of the Wylye Valley, Wiltshire / Julie Gardiner and Michael J. Allen -- 8. A Landscape Tale of Two Soil Histories in Lowland Zones of England: the fen-edge of Cambridgeshire and the downland of Cranborne Chase / Charles French -- 9. Cows in the Wood / Frances Healy -- pt. 3. Coasts and Islands -- 10. Living in the Sands -- Bronze Age Gwithian, Cornwall, revisited / Jacqueline A. Nowakowski -- 11. The Construction of Barrows in Bronze Age Orkney -- an 'assuagement of guilt'? / Jane Downes -- 12. On the Islandness of St Kilda / Andrew Fleming -- 13. Beaker Settlement in the Western Isles / Niall Sharples -- pt. 4. Archaeology, Snails and Shells -- 14. Environmental Change in an Orkney Wetland: plant and molluscan evidence from Quoyloo Meadow / Terry O'Connor and M. Jane Bunting -- 15. Mysteries of the Middens: change and continuity across the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition / Nicky Milner and Oliver E. Craig -- 16. Environmental Archaeologv of the Roman villa at Rock, Brighstone, Isle of Wight / George R. Speller, Richard C. Preece and Simon A. Parfitt -- 17. Ena montana (Drap.) and Neolithic Woodland Regeneration in Southern England / Mark Robinson -- pt. 5. People, Process and Social Order -- 18. As We Were Saying: connecting people and places / Alasdair Whittle -- 19. Manure and the Medieval social order / Richard Jones -- 20. The Social Face of Threshing Floors / Aikaterini K. Paschali |
| Notes |
At head of title: The Prehistoric Society |
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"Published in association with the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Prehistoric peoples -- Great Britain
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Environmental archaeology -- Great Britain
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Animal remains (Archaeology) -- Great Britain
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Animal remains (Archaeology)
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Antiquities
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Environmental archaeology
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Prehistoric peoples
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Umweltarchäologie
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056606
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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Gro€britannien.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Festschriften.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Evans, John G
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Allen, Michael J., editor.
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Sharples, Niall M., editor.
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O'Connor, Terry., editor
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Prehistoric Society (London, England)
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Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
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| ISBN |
9781782973584 |
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1782973583 |
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9781782973607 |
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1782973605 |
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