Environmental Archaeology 9, 2

By Glynis Jones

Contents: Human Exploitation and Biota of Islands (Nicki J Whitehouse, Eileen M. Murphy and Gill Plunkett); Island Differentiation Muddied by Island Biogeographers (R J Berry); The Archaeological Record of Birds in Britain and Ireland Compared: Extinctions or Failures to Arrive? (D W Yalden and R I Carthy); Human Interference on Ascension Island (Stephen A Royle); Reconsidering Evidence of Tasmanian Fishing (Everett Bassett); From Harvesting the Sea to Stock Rearing Along the Atlantic Facade of North-West Europe (Rick Schulting, Anne Tresset and Catherine Dupont); The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition on the Channel Islands: Adopting Agriculture in an Emerging Island Landscape (David Bukach); Post-Beaker Period Death and Burial at Northton, Isle of Harris, Scotland (Eileen Murphy, Richard Gregory and Derek Simpson); Connections and Distance: Investigating Social and Agricultural Issues Relating to Early Medieval Crannogs in Ireland (Christina Fredengren, Meriel McClatchie and Ingelise Stuijts); The Food Economies of Atlantic Island Monasteries: The Documentary and Archaeo-Environmental Evidence (Emily Murray, Finbar McCormick and Gill Plunkett); Islands in Wilderness: the Changing Medieval Use of the East Anglian Peat Fens, England (Rachel Ballantyne); 'Islands' in Holocene Forests: Implications for Forest Openness, Landscape Clearance and 'Culture-Steppe' Species (Nicki J. Whitehouse and David N Smith).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842171453
• ISBN13: 9781842171455
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 11.7"