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Environmental Archaeology: Meaning and Purpose

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Editors:
  1. Umberto Albarella

    1. Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, Durham, England, UK

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Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Technology Library (ENST, volume 17)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Exploring the Real Nature of Environmental Archaeology

      • Umberto Albarella
      Pages 3-13

  3. Meaning and Purpose

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Economic Prehistory or Environmental Archaeology? On Gaining a Sense of Identity

      • Terry O’connor
      Pages 17-27

    3. Re-Inventing Environmental Archaeology

      • Yannis Hamilakis
      Pages 29-38

    4. Whose Dichotomy is it Anyway?

      • Terry O’Connor
      Pages 39-41

    5. Environmental Archaeology is not Human Palaeoecology

      • Jonathan Driver
      Pages 43-53

    6. Environmental Archaeology is Dead: Long Live Bioarchaeology, Geoarchaeology and Human Palaeoecology

      • Ken Thomas
      Pages 55-58

    7. A Reply to Thomas

      • Jonathan Driver
      Pages 59-60

    8. The Poverty of Empiricism and the Tyranny of Theory

      • Steve Roskams, Tom Saunders
      Pages 61-74

    9. Commercialising the Palaeoenvironment

      • Gwilym Hughes, Andy Hammon
      Pages 75-87

    10. The Responsibilities of Archaeologists to Nature Conservation

      • Rebecca Roseff
      Pages 89-95

    11. Sustainability and the Rate of Change

      • Paul Graves-Brown
      Pages 97-99

    12. A Reply to Graves-Brown

      • Rebecca Roseff
      Pages 101-101

    13. What is Geoarchaeology? Re-Examining the Relationship Between Archaeology and Earth Science

      • Matthew Canti
      Pages 103-112

    14. Is Human Osteoarchaeology Environmental Archaeology?

      • Joanna Sofaer Derevenski
      Pages 113-133

  4. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. The Rhetoric of People and Grains

      • Dragos Gheorghiu
      Pages 137-148

    3. A Match Made in Heaven or a Marriage of Convenience?

      • Chris Loveluck, Keith Dobney
      Pages 149-175
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About this book

Despite the fact that the human life of the past cannot be understood without taking into account its ecological relationships, environmental studies are often marginalised in archaeology. This is the first book that, by discussing the meaning and purpose we give to the expression `environmental archaeology', investigates the reasons for such a problem. This is achieved through the use of theoretical considerations and the aid of a number of case studies, which, by taking us from Anglo-Saxon England to pre-Columbian Venezuela, and from Classical Greece to late Antique Egypt, emphasise the potential of an integrated approach. The book is written by archaeologists with different backgrounds and is addressed to all researchers who care about the past relationship between people and the rest of Nature. Despite the complexity of some of the issues tackled, the book is written in an accessible manner and should be of interest to all students who want to understand the essence of archaeology beyond the boundary of the individual sub-disciplines.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, Durham, England, UK

    Umberto Albarella

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Environmental Archaeology: Meaning and Purpose

  • Editors: Umberto Albarella

  • Series Title: Environmental Science and Technology Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9652-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6763-5Published: 31 January 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5634-4Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9652-7Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1382-3124

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 326

  • Topics: History, general, Archaeology, Anthropology, Ethics, Epistemology

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