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Human Ecodynamics (Paperback)
G. Bailey, Ruth Charles, Nick Winder
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The papers in this book were first presented at the Association for
Environmental Archaeology conference at Newcastle upon Tyne in
1998. The aim of the conference was to encourage contributors to
examine the inter-relationships between classes of data that have
increasingly come to be treated in isolation and to encourage
thinking about theory in environmental archaeology. Authors have
focused on explicit development of theory, others on bridging
barriers between different fields of study or classes of evidence.
The notion that people are influenced, but not necessarily
determined, by the environments in which they live, may seem like a
truism, but an ecodynamic perspective however requires us to
question the human impact on the environment, disregarding
agricultural influences. Human Ecodynamics discuss how people have
been affecting, and affected by environmental variables around them
since the beginning of time. Archaeologists are peculiarly well
placed to link culture and nature together as the discipline
discerns thriving socio-cultural and biological traditions. This
thinking is applied to the way in which we conduct our studies of
the world around us, and to the boundaries between the various
disciplines and sub-disciplines into which we sub-divide the
subject matter of investigation.
A re-evalutation of the chronology and archaeology of the Late
glacial of the north-western Ardennes, and an identification of
human modification of faunal assemblages from five cave sites. The
final chapter is an exploration of the ethnicity of butchery.
Dorothy Garrod opened many doors; not only was she the first female
professor at Cambridge University, but she illuminated - and in
some cases initiated - some of prehistoric archaeology's most
central issues. The quiet yet self possessed woman was best known
as a fieldworker, often venturing into dangerous regions such as
Kurdistan. Her first and highly successful excavation revealed
fragments of Neanderthal fossils in Gibraltar. This volume reviews
modern research on this site, as well as exploring other issues
which interested the Disney Professor of Archaeology: hominid
remains from Mount Carmel; Palaeolithic sites in the Zagros
Mountains, Bulgaria and Britain; and the cultural evidence for the
beginning of Near Eastern food production, which Garrod called
Natufian. Also included are papers concerned with her life,
background and published work. The topics' span and continuing
relevance are testament to Dorothy Garrod's remarkable character
and great achievements.
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