Conference Proceedings 1990 -1999

1. 2000 - 2003
2. 1990 - 1999
3. 1979 - 1989

University of Newcastle, 15th-17th September 1998

Bailey, G., Charles, R., and Winder, N. (eds) (2000) Human Ecodynamics. Oxford: Oxbow Books. AEA Symposia No. 19.

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. The papers go some way to achieving these aims; some focus on explicit developments of theory, others on bridging barriers between different fields of study or classes of evidence, while others are case studies with an ecodynamic component. Includes papers by: Nick Winder, Don Brothwell, Terry O'Connor, John Bintliff, Geoff Bailey, Geoffrey King, Isabelle Manighetti, Robert van de Noort, William Fletcher, Robert Shiel, M Jane Bunting, Richard Tipping, Robert Marchant, David Taylor, Alan Hamilton, Bryony Coles, Peter Mitchell, Ruth Charles, Rosemary Luff, Gill Campbell, Julie Hamilton, Marsha Levine, Katherine Whitwell, Leo Jeffcott, Andrew Millard, Megan Brickely. 160p, many figs (Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology 19, Oxbow Books 2000). ISBN 1842170015. 

AEA Annual Conference 1997 

University of Limerick, Ireland, 6th-9th September 1997(AEA Symposia No. 18)

Theme: History, Ethnography and Environmental Archaeology. Conference Organiser: Siobhan Geraghty.

AEA Annual Conference 1996 

Museum of Archaeology, Stavanger, Norway, 5th-8th September 1996 (AEA Symposia No. 17)

Theme: Presenting the Past to the Public: the role of environmental archaeology and natural sciences. Conference Organiser: Kerstin Griffin.

AEA Annual Conference 1995 

University of Bradford, 7th-10th September 1995

Nicholson, R. A. and O'Connor, T. P. (eds) (2000) People as an Agent of Environmental Change. Oxford: Oxbow Books. AEA Symposia No. 16.

The papers in this volume revisit one of the concerns which dominated environmental archaeology through the 1960s and 1970s, namely the timing, nature and extent of human impact on the environment. The thirteen contributions reflect the diversity of approaches and ideas today and show how our understanding of the place of people in ecosystems is now more subtle. There are papers on palynological evidence from the Strymon Delta in Macedonia; prehistoric copper mining at Mount Gabriel, Ireland; fungal spores as anthropogenic indicators on Shetland; prehistoric human impact on the prehistoric environments of Orkney, North York Moors and the Mid-Devon landscape; mites as indicators of human impact in the Netherlands; the disappearance of Elmid `Riffle Beetles' from lowland river systems in Britain; and case studies from further afield: palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in the Central Mexican Highlands; food plant availability in the Murchison Basin, Western Australia, prior to European arrival and Paleoindian expansion into South America. c.135p, figs & tbs (Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology 16, Oxbow Books 2000). ISBN 1842170023.

AEA Annual Conference 1994

University of Amsterdam, Zwartsluis, The Netherlands, 21st-24th September 1994 (AEA Symposia No. 15)

Pals, J. P. and van Wijngaarden-Bakker, L. (eds) (1998) ‘Seasonality’ published as Environmental Archaeology volume 3. 

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AEA Annual Conference 1993

University of Durham, 18th-21st September 1993

Huntley, J. P. and Stallibrass, S (eds) (2000) Taphonomy and Interpretation. Oxford: Oxbow Books. AEA Symposia No. 14.

Papers from the 1993 Association for Environmental Archaeology conference at Durham. Contents: Intepreting prehistoric cultivation using the combined evidence of plant remains and soils: an example from northern Scotland (S P Carter & T G Holden); Palynological taphonomy in understanding vegetation history and human impact in the Lairg area, Sutherland (M Smith); Pollen preservation analysis as a necessity in Holocene palynology (R Tipping); Dark earth and obscured stratigraphy (E J Sidell); Through a taphonomic glass, darkly: the importance of cereal cultivation in prehistoric Britain (P Rowley-Conwy); Otter (Lutra lutra L.) spraint: an investigation into possible sources of small fish bones at coastal archaeological sites (R A Nicholson); The butcher, the cook and the archaeologist (P R G Stokes); Detecting the nature of materials on farms from Coleptera: a number of taphonomic problems (D N Smith); Experimental taphonomy (L van Wijngaarden-Bakker); Why did the chicken dig a hole? Som observations on the excavation of dust baths by domestic fowl and their implications for archaeology (K Dobney, A Hall & M Hill); Arthropod remains as indicators for taphonomic processes: an assemblage from 19th century burials, Broerenkerk, Zwolle, the Netherlands (T Hakbijl); Context level interpretation of animal bones through statistical analysis (M Moreno Garcia & James Rackham; (Towards describing the nature of the chief taphonomic agent (B Wilson). c.120p (Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology No. 14, Oxbow 2000). ISBN 184217004X. 

AEA Annual Conference 1992

University of Edinburgh, 25th-27th September 1992

Coles, G. and Mills, C. (eds) (1998) Life on the Edge: Human Settlement and Marginality. Oxford: Oxbow Books. AEA Symposia No. 13.

Throughout history some areas have been less attractive for living and farming than others. These areas are identified as marginal because of environmental, economic or socio-political factors. How can we recognise marginality in the archaeological record? How particularly can environmental remains be interpreted? And how can we interpret human strategies when faced with a marginal environment? Most of the papers in this volume focus on Scottish contexts, reflecting their origins at the 1992 meeting of the Association for Environmental Archaeology in Edinburgh. However Greek pastoralism and the problems of food supply in the Egyptian and Syrian deserts are also examined.190p (Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology 13, 1998). ISBN 1900188570.

AEA Annual Conference 1991 

University of York, 27th-29th September 1991

Hall, A. R. and Kenward, H. K. (eds) (1994) Urban-rural connexions: perspectives from environmental archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow Books. AEA Symposia No. 12.

The potential of environmental evidence in the archaeological record for investigating the links between towns and their rural hinterlands is the focus of this volume. Most papers use evidence from Roman and Medieval Britain but there are also case studies from Paris, medieval Holland, and Oslo. Essential reading for specialists, this book also amply demonstrates the relevance of environmental evidence to central theoretical debates in historic archaeology. Contributors include: E Schia (Urban Oslo and its relation to rural production in the hinterland: An archaeological view); R I Macphail (The reworking of urban stratigraphy by human and natural processes); M Hill (Insect assemblages as evidence for past woodlands around York); H Kenward & E Allison (Rural origins of the urban insect fauna); H van Haaster (Plant resources and environment in late medieval Lübeck); M Maltby (The meat supply in Roman Dorchester and Winchester); Bob Wilson (Mortality patterns, animal husbandry and marketing in and around medieval and post-medieval Oxford); B Noddle (The under-rated goat); D Brothwell (On the possibility of urban-rural contrasts in human population palaeobiology); P Ciezar et al (In Suburbano: New data on the immediate surroundings of Roman and early medieval Paris); W Groenman van Waateringe (The menu of different classes in Dutch medieval society). 176p with fig & illus. (Oxbow Monograph 47, 1995). ISBN 0946897816.

AEA Annual Conference 1990 

University of Cambridge, 29th-30th September 1990

Luff, R. and Rowley-Conwy, P. (eds) (1994) Whither Environmental Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow Books. AEA Symposia No. 11.

Papers from the Association of Environmental Archaeology conference held at Selwyn College, Cambridge, with contributions from: R Luff & P Rowley-Conwy (The (dis)integration of environmental archaeology); P C Buckland & others (Comments on Lindow men); J J Taylor (Locating prehistoric wetland sites); N Winder (Designing a database for animal bones); J Pearce (The taphonomy of cooked bone); T Amorosi & others (Archaeozoological examination of the midden at Nesstofa, Reykjavik); C Gamble & G N Bailey (Impact of recovery techniques on faunal interpretation at Klithi); M Robinson (Excavation and environmental archaeology at Mingies Ditch); S J Dockrill & others (Tofts Ness, Sanday, Orkney: An integrated study of a buried Orcadian landscape); B J Kemp & others (Food for an Egyptian city: Tell el-Amarna); D Samuel (Cereal food processing in ancient Egypt); R Luff (Butchery at the workmen's village, Tell el-Amarna); W Matthews & others (The imprint of living in an early Mesopotamian city). 224p with figs & illus. (Oxbow monograph 38, 1994). ISBN 0946897697.