People as an Agent of Environmental Change
Published on 1. December 2000
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135 pages
978-1-84217-002-1 (ISBN)
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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.
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English
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Oxford
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978-1-84217-002-1 (9781842170021)
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Introduction (Rebecca Nicholson and Terry O'Connor)
Accelerated Geomorphic Activity and Human Causation: Problems in Proving the Links in Proxy Records (Richard Tipping)
Palynological Evidence from the Strymon Delta, Macedonia, Greece (M. A. Atherden, J. A. Hall and A. Dunn)
Prehistoric Copper Mining and its Impact on Vegetationa: Palaeoecological Evidence from Mount Gabriel, Co. Cork, South-West Ireland ( T. M. Mighall, F. M. Chambers, J. M. Lanting and W. F. O'Brien)
A Preliminary Investigation into the Use of Fungal Spores as Anthropogenic Indicators on Shetland (Andrew Hoaen and Geraint Coles)
The Decline of Woodland in Orkeny: Early Neolithic to Late Iron Age (Camilla Dickson)
Post-Iron Age Vegetation History and Climate Change on the North York Moors: A Preliminary Report (Richard C. Chiverrell and Margaret A. Atherden)
Conservation or Chagne? Human Influence on the Mid-Devon Landscape (C. J. Caseldine, B. J. Coles, F. M. Griffith and J. M. Hatton)
Remains of Mites as Indicators of Human Impact on Past Environments: Dwelling Mounds and Marine Incursions in the Netherlands (Jaap Schelvis)
Disappearance of Elmid "Riffle Beetles" from Lowland River Systems in Britain: The Impact of Alluviation (David Smith)
Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction in the Central Mexican Highlands: A Re-appraisal of Traditional Theory (Georgina H. Endfield, Sarah L. O'Hara and Sarah E. Metcalfe)
Reconstructing the Ethnobotany of a Depleted Flora: Food Plant Availability in the Murchison Basin, Western Australia, prior to European Arrival (R. Esmee Webb)
Blitzkrieg or Sitzkrieg? The Extinction of Endemic Faunas in Mediterranean Island Prehistory (Mark Patton)
Estimating the Rate of Paleoindian Expansion into South America (James Steele, Clive Gamble and Tim Sluckin)
Accelerated Geomorphic Activity and Human Causation: Problems in Proving the Links in Proxy Records (Richard Tipping)
Palynological Evidence from the Strymon Delta, Macedonia, Greece (M. A. Atherden, J. A. Hall and A. Dunn)
Prehistoric Copper Mining and its Impact on Vegetationa: Palaeoecological Evidence from Mount Gabriel, Co. Cork, South-West Ireland ( T. M. Mighall, F. M. Chambers, J. M. Lanting and W. F. O'Brien)
A Preliminary Investigation into the Use of Fungal Spores as Anthropogenic Indicators on Shetland (Andrew Hoaen and Geraint Coles)
The Decline of Woodland in Orkeny: Early Neolithic to Late Iron Age (Camilla Dickson)
Post-Iron Age Vegetation History and Climate Change on the North York Moors: A Preliminary Report (Richard C. Chiverrell and Margaret A. Atherden)
Conservation or Chagne? Human Influence on the Mid-Devon Landscape (C. J. Caseldine, B. J. Coles, F. M. Griffith and J. M. Hatton)
Remains of Mites as Indicators of Human Impact on Past Environments: Dwelling Mounds and Marine Incursions in the Netherlands (Jaap Schelvis)
Disappearance of Elmid "Riffle Beetles" from Lowland River Systems in Britain: The Impact of Alluviation (David Smith)
Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction in the Central Mexican Highlands: A Re-appraisal of Traditional Theory (Georgina H. Endfield, Sarah L. O'Hara and Sarah E. Metcalfe)
Reconstructing the Ethnobotany of a Depleted Flora: Food Plant Availability in the Murchison Basin, Western Australia, prior to European Arrival (R. Esmee Webb)
Blitzkrieg or Sitzkrieg? The Extinction of Endemic Faunas in Mediterranean Island Prehistory (Mark Patton)
Estimating the Rate of Paleoindian Expansion into South America (James Steele, Clive Gamble and Tim Sluckin)