[PDF] The Environment Of Early Man In The British Isles eBook

Author : John G. Evans
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520029736

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Includes a chapter on the period

Author : P. J. Fowler
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 1983-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521273695

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Emphasizing past gains in knowledge from experimental, aerial and field archaeology, Dr Fowler demonstrates how the application of archaeological approaches to agrarian history has made the subject central to our understanding of the prehistoric period. Emphasizing past gains in knowledge from experimental, aerial and field archaeology, Dr Fowler demonstrates how the application of archaeological approaches to agrarian history has made the subject central to our understanding of the prehistoric period.

Author : John G. Evans
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :

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Over the centuries how did our ancestors relate to their environment - the climate, the sea, the soil and other animals - in their everyday business of survival, as well as in a more spiritual role? Through a large number of case studies John Evans presents a history of the interactions between people and their biophycial environment in the British Isles - from the earliest inhabitants down to the emergence of towns and cities in the middle ages. Deliberately avoiding macro-schemes of causation and change linked to climate and other overall factors, he emphasises the importance of the small locale - of the interaction between people and environment that takes place there and so forms the basis for community maintenance. Examples range, in time, from Boxgrove Man to medieval York and, geographically, from north-east Ireland and the Shetlands to Dartmoor and the East Anglian fen-edge. By showing what can be derived from conventional archaeological data, when analysed in relation to past environments, Professor Evans has not only produced an up-to-date and jargon-free textbook for all archaeologists - from first-year undergraduates to a wide range of amateurs - but has not produced a blueprint for future research by his professional colleagues.

Author : R.L. Jones
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401115206

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Recent developments in Pleistocene research have prompted the authors to produce this up-to-date, concise account of environmental changes during the past two million years. Well-illustrated and referenced, it possesses a unique position in the literature on Pleistocene events in the British Isles.

Author : Robert A. Dodgshon
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 35,81 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1483288412

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This text has been designed to cover all aspects and phases of the historical geography of England and Wales in a single volume. In its substantially revised and enlarged form, the treatment of standard themes has been completely re-written to take account of recent work and shifts in viewpoint while its overall coverage has been extended to embrace newer themes like symbolic landscapes and the geography of the inter-war period. Its comprehensiveness and freshness of approach ensure its continuing value and success as a text. Breadth of coverage from prehistory to 1939 Uses a range of data sources and approaches Well illustrated with particular emphasis on key themes Major revision of 1st edition with much wider range of topics

Author : Richard Bradley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 131761285X

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This study, first published in 1978, explores the evidence for pre-Roman settlement in Britain. Four aspects of the prehistoric economy are described by the author – colonisation and clearance; arable and pastoral farming; transhumance and nomadism; and hunting, gathering and fishing. These aspects have been brought together to formulate a structure which contains the evidence more naturally than chronological schemes that depend on assumed changes in population or technology. The book draws upon environmental evidence and recent developments in archaeological fieldwork. It also provides an extensive exploration of the published literature on the subject and the scope of the evidence. Originally conceived as an ‘ideas book’ rather than a final synthesis, the author’s intention throughout is to stimulate argument and research, and not to replace one dogma with another.