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AEA Annual Conference 2004 Bad Buchau, Southern Germany, 2nd-5th September 2004 (AEA Symposia No. 24)
Conference organised by: Ralf Baumeister (Federseemuseum, Bad Buchau), Sabine Karg (The National Museum of Denmark) and Helmut Schlichtherle (Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg). Monograph Editors: Ralf Baumeister, Sabine Karg, Helmut Schlichtherle, and David Robinson Click here to download 'guidelines for authors'. Participants should send their contributions to: Dr Sabine Karg, The National Museum of Denmark, Research and Exhibitions, Environmental Archaeology, Ny Vestergade 11, DK – 1471 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
AEA Annual Conference 2003 University of Belfast, 24th-26th April 2003 (AEA Symposia No. 23)
Worlds Apart? Human Settlement and Biota of Islands Conference Organisers: Nicki Whitehouse, Eileen Murphy, Finbar McCormick, and Gill Plunkett Volume Editors: Nicki Whitehouse, Eileen Murphy and Gill Plunkett Published as a special issue of the journal, Environmental Archaeology.
AEA one-day meeting 2001 University of Birmingham, 18th September 2001 (AEA Symposia No. 22) Fertile Ground: Papers in Honour of Susan Limbrey Meeting Organisers and Monograph Editors: David Smith, Megan Brickley and Wendy Smith. In 2001, a one-day meeting in honour of Susan Limbrey's retirement was held at the University of Birmingham organised by Megan Brickley and David Smith. The proceedings of this meeting have been edited to form a volume in the Association for Environmental Archaeology Symposium series. The editors have realised that this volume marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Whither Environmental Archaeology volume and have conducted a survey to assess the present state of environmental archaeology in Britain. The volume will also contain the following papers: New World Dogs: Theory and Practice (Brothwell); The Severn-Wye revisited: Lateglacial-Holocene Floodplain Palaeoenvironments in the Lugg Valley (Brown, Hatton, Pearson, Roseff and Jackson). Wondering about worms: stones, soil and stratigraphy (Canti); Holocene environmental change of the Severn Estuary: regional and national perspectives (Druce); Manuring practices in antiquity: a review of the evidence (Guttmann, Simpson & Davidson); The history of woodland management during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Pindos mountains, NW Greece (C. Hall); Cultural and environmental influences on Late Holocene Landscape change in the Lesser Antilles: Some preliminary observations from Nevis (Heathcote); Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) from archaeological deposits in Britain (Kenward); Microstratigraphy and micromorphology: contributions to interpretation of the Neolithic settlement at Catalhoyuk, Turkey (Matthews); Health in Roman-British urban communities: reflections from the cemeteries (Redfern Roberts); Changing fluvial conditions and landscapes in the Trent Valley: a review of palaeoentomological evidence (Greenwood & Smith); Not seeing the wood for the trees: a palaeoentomological perspective on Holocene woodland composition (Smith and Whitehouse);Textural pedofeatures as tools to diagnose past cultivation - a controlled experiment (Usai). In press, Oxbow Books. Due March 2005.
AEA/NABO Annual Conference 2001 University of Glasgow, 29th-31st March 2001(AEA Symposia No. 21) Conference Organisers and Monograph Editors: R. Housley and G. Coles Maritime communications have played a vital role in shaping both human cultures and the biogeography of the North Atlantic Realm, a region containing discrete groups of islands separated by deep water. The aim of this volume is to explore the diversity of human environments and cultural adaptations present within the eastern part of the North Atlantic Realm, from Scotland and Norway in the East to Iceland in the West. The papers explore a number of key themes, including: the origins of flora and fauna of the North Atlantic Realm and the introduction of non-indigenous species in post-glacial periods; the various stages of human colonisation, from the explorations of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in the Hebridean islands to the Norse settlement of the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland during the 8th to 10th centuries AD, and how each stage of colonisation has had its own ecological characteristics and consequences for indigenous flora and fauna; the influence of climatic variability and extreme episodic events on local environments and human settlement patterns; and the establishment and development of human exchange and trade networks and how they have affected the range of resources available for human exploitation, from agricultural domesticates to the development of the Flemish sea fishery. These papers were presented at the first joint meeting of the Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA) and the North Atlantic Bio-cultural Organisation (NABO), which was held at Glasgow University in March 2001. 288p, 101 b/w figs, 33 tbs (Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology 21, Oxbow Books, November 2004). More details are available from the Oxbow Books website. ISBN 1842171062. Paperback. AEA members can purchase this book from Allan Hall's book service at half recomended price.
AEA Annual Conference 1999/2000 University of Surrey, Guildford, 14th-16th April 2000 (AEA Symposia No. 20) edited by Peter Murphy and Patricia E J Wiltshire The environmental impact of industry is often profound and far-reaching, and has long been present in the cultural landscape, but research into the nature and relative importance of industrial activity has been somewhat neglected by environmental archaeologists. This volume presents eighteen papers deriving from a conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology; they aim to bridge the gap between environmental and industrial archaeology. The papers address several major issues including: the effects of mining and smelting on sedimentation and vegetation in river catchments, the environmental impact of industries which are based on high-temperature processes and require reliable sources of fuel, such as metallurgy, pottery, glass and lime-making; the environmental impact of industrial processes based on biological raw materials, such as horn, bone, hides and shell; and the effects of industry on human health. Contents: Setting the Scene (F Chambers); Reconstructing the environmental impact of past metallurgical activities (P D Marshall); An environmental approach to the archaeology of tin mining on Dartmoor (V Thorndycraft, D Pirriet and A G Brown); Wood-based industrial fuels and their environmental impact in lowland Britain (R Gale); The iron production industry and its extensive demand upon woodland resources: A case study from Creeton Quarry, Lincolnshire (J Cowgill); Tanning and horn-working at late- and post- mediaeval Bruges (A Ervynck, B Hillewaert, A Maes and M van Strydonck); Tawyers, tanners, horn trade and the mystery of the missing goat (U Albarella); Choice and use of shells for artefacts at Roman sites in the Eastern Desert of Egypt (S Hamilton-Dyer); Industrial activities - some suggested microstratigraphic signatures (R Macphail); Deriving information efficiently from surveys of artefact distribution (R S Shiel and S B Mohamed); Can we identify biological indicator groups for craft, industry and other activities? (A Hall and H Kenward); Archaeological arthropod faunas as indicators of past industrial activitie(J Schelvis); Charred mollusc shells as indicators of industrial activities (P Murphy); Saxon flax retting in river channels and the apparent lack of water pollution (M Robinson); The rise and fall of Rickets in England (S A Mays); A comparison of health in past rural, urban and industrial England (M Lewis); Determining occupation from skeletal remains - is it possible? (T Waldron and W Birch); The disposal and decomposition of human and animal remains(D W Hopkins and P E J Wiltshire). 208p, 54 b/w figs, 30 tbs (Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology 20, Oxbow Books, July 2003) ISBN 1842170848. Paperback. Buy this book from Oxbow books. |
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Economic and Environmental Changes during the 4th and 3rd Millennia BC
Atlantic Connections & Adaptations: Economies, Environments and Subsistence in the North Atlantic Realm
The Environmental Archaeology of Industry