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Archaeology in Environment and Technology: Intersections and Transformations

Archaeology in Environment and Technology: Intersections and Transformations

Frankel, David
Lawrence, Susan
Webb, Jennifer

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology, Book 8

Technology & EngineeringArchaeologyEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 0415832012
ISBN13: 9780415832014
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 22 2013
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways. The chapters in this book take environment, culture, and technology together. All have been the focus of much attention; often one or other has been seen as the starting point for analysis, but this volume argues that it is the study of the inter-relationships between these three factors that offers a way forward. The contributions to this book pick up different strands within the tangled web of intersections between environment, technology, and society, providing a series of case studies which explore facets of this common theme in different settings and circumstances and from different perspectives. As well as addressing themes of theoretical and methodological interest, these case studies draw on primary research dealing with time periods from the late Pleistocene glacial maximum to the very recent past, and involve societies of very different types. Running through all the contributions, however, is a concern with the archaeological record and the ways in which scales of observation and availability of evidence affect the development of questions and explanations.

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