The Field Archaeology of Exmoor
Title | The Field Archaeology of Exmoor PDF eBook |
Author | Hazel Riley |
Publisher | Historic England |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
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The result of original survey work on Exmoor, which sought out evidence from prehistoric stone settings and burial mounds to medieval castles, lost settlements and 19th century industrial remains.
Field Archaeology in Britain
Title | Field Archaeology in Britain PDF eBook |
Author | John Coles |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2014-11-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 131760606X |
A practical guide to the various modern methods of discovery, excavation and recording of the remains left by prehistoric man in Britain. It stresses the vital role played by the amateur rescuing evidence of man’s past behaviour in these islands, and is illustrated by maps, site plans and sections, and drawings of equipment and surveying procedures. Originally published in 1972.
Wessex: A Landscape History
Title | Wessex: A Landscape History PDF eBook |
Author | Hadrian Cook |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2024-04-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1803275367 |
Wessex is famous for its coasts, heaths, woodlands, chalk downland, limestone hills and gorges, settlements and farmed vales. This book provides an account of the physical form, development and operation of its landscape as it was shaped by our ancestors. Major themes include the development of agriculture, settlements, industry and transport.
Archaeology of Somerset
Title | Archaeology of Somerset PDF eBook |
Author | Chris J. Webster |
Publisher | Somerset Archaeological & Natural History Society |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
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'Archaeology of Somerset' covers all periods from the Palaeolithic to the modern. It includes specially commissioned reconstruction drawings, a list of places to visit for each period, further reading, and sources of more detailed information.
The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | Helena Hamerow |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 1110 |
Release | 2011-03-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0199212147 |
Written by a team of experts and presenting the results of the most up-to-date research, The Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology will both stimulate and support further investigation into a society poised at the interface between prehistory and history.
Matters of Conflict
Title | Matters of Conflict PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas J. Saunders |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2004-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134463715 |
Matters of Conflict looks at the definitive invention of the twentieth century - industrialised war - and its vast and varied material legacy. From trench art and postcards through avant-garde art, museum collections and prosthetic limbs to battlefield landscapes, the book examines the First World War and its significance through the things it left behind. The contributions come from a multidisciplinary perspective, uniting previously compartmentalized disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, cultural history, museology and art history in their focus on material culture. This innovative, hybrid approach investigates the 'social life' of objects in order to understand them as they move through time and space and intersect the lives of all who came in contact with them. The resulting survey sets a new agenda for study of the First World War, and ultimately of all twentieth-century conflict.
Interpreting Landscapes
Title | Interpreting Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Tilley |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 437 |
Release | 2016-06-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1315426277 |
This book takes a new approach to writing about the past. Instead of studying the prehistory of Britain from Mesolithic to Iron Age times in terms of periods or artifact classifications, Tilley examines it through the lens of their geology and landscapes, asserting the fundamental significance of the bones of the land in the process of human occupation over the long durée. Granite uplands, rolling chalk downlands, sandstone moorlands, and pebbled hilltops each create their own potentialities and symbolic resources for human settlement and require forms of social engagement. Taking his findings from years of phenomenological fieldwork experiencing different landscapes with all senses and from many angles, Tilley creates a saturated and historically imaginative account of the landscapes of southern England and the people who inhabited them. This work is also a key theoretical statement about the importance of landscapes for human settlement.