Environmental Archaeology

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This book aims to thoroughly discuss new directions of thinking in the arena of environmental archaeology and test them by presenting new practical applications. Recent theoretical and epistemological advancement in the field of archaeology calls for a re-definition of the subdiscipline of environmental archaeology and its position within the practise of archaeology. New technological and methodological discoveries in hard sciences and computer applications opened fresh ways for interdisciplinary collaborations thus introducing new branches and specialisations that need now to be accommodated and integrated within the previous status-quo. This edited volume will take the challenge and engage with contemporary international discussions about the role of the discipline within the general framework of archaeology. By drawing upon these debates, the contributors to this volume will rethink what environmental archaeology is and what kind of input the investigation of this kind of materiality has to the reconstruction of human history and sociality. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Environmental Archaeology: What Is in a Name? (Evangelia Pişkin, Marta Bartkowiak)....Pages 1-14 Environmental Archaeology: The End of the Road? (Umberto Albarella)....Pages 15-18 Changing Perspectives: Exploring Ways and Means of Collaborating in Environmental Archaeology (G. V. Campbell, C. Barnett, W. Carruthers, L. Pearson, R. Pelling, D. N. Smith)....Pages 19-34 Environmental Archaeology in Southern Scandinavia (Kurt J. Gron, Peter Rowley-Conwy)....Pages 35-74 A Man and a Plant: Archaeobotany (Maria Lityńska-Zając)....Pages 75-110 Bridging Archaeology and Genetics (Ophélie Lebrasseur, Hannah Ryan, Cinthia Abbona)....Pages 111-132 Wood Charcoal Analysis in Archaeology (Ceren Kabukcu)....Pages 133-154 Palaeoethnobotanical Contributions to Human-Environment Interaction (Gary W. Crawford)....Pages 155-180 Ethnoarchaeology as a Means of Improving Integration: An Ethnozooarchaeological Study from Cyprus and Its Contribution to the Integration of Zooarchaeology with Archaeobotany and Other Lines of Archaeological Evidence (Angelos Hadjikoumis)....Pages 181-198 Exploring the Wetland: Integrating the Fish and Plant Remains into a Case Study from Tianluoshan, a Middle Neolithic Site in China (Ying Zhang)....Pages 199-227 All or Nothing: Spatial Analysis and Interpretation of Archaeological Record Based on the Integration of Artifactual, Ecofactual, and Contextual Data at the Medieval Site of Komana (Mustafa Nuri Tatbul)....Pages 229-245 Back Matter ....Pages 247-248