What did the landscape of Stonehenge look like in its Neolithic
heyday? How did Ancient Egyptians produce their food? Such
questions can be addressed by environmental archaeology - the study
of past people from biological remains and geological phenomena.
Environmental Archaeology shows the methods used by archaeologists
not only to reconstruct landscape settings of archaeological sites,
but also to determine what people ate, the raw materials they used
and the technology that allowed them to farm, hunt and build. In
this revised version of their 2003 book Keith Wilkinson and Chris
Stevens explore the environmental archaeology from first
principles. They discuss the concepts that underpin the subject,
outline the techniques used by environmental archaeologists and
explain how biological and geological data are used to illuminate
the archaeological past. The book is written for those who have
some archaeological knowledge but no background in the natural
sciences, or vice versa. It is a pragmatic guide to the subject,
taking the reader step-by-step through approaches, methods, theory,
and focussing particularly on interpretation/ The authors'
intention is to highlight the importance of environmental
archaeology in the reconstruction of the interation between life
and landscape in the past.
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