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Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways. The chapters in this book take environment, culture, and technology together. All have been the focus of much attention; often one or other has been seen as the starting point for
List of contents
1. Complex Relations: Intersections in Time and Space
David Frankel, Jennifer Webb, and Susan Lawrence Part 1: Responses to Environments 2. Perspectives on Global Comparative Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology: Glacial Southwest Tasmania and Southwest France
Richard Cosgrove, Jean-Michel Geneste, Jean-Pierre Chadelle, and Jean-Christophe Castel 3. Strategies for Investigating Human Responses to Changes in Landscape and Climate at Lake Mungo in the Willandra Lakes, Southeast Australia
Nicola Stern, Jacqueline Tumney, Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons, and Paul Kajewski 4. A New Ecological Framework for Understanding Human-Environment Interactions in Arid Australia
Simon J. Holdaway, Matthew Douglass, and Patricia C. Fanning 5. Integrating Hunter-Gatherer Sites, Environments, Technology, and Art in Western Victoria
David Frankel & Caroline Bird 6. Pushing the Boundaries: Imperial Responses to Environmental Constraints in Early Islamic Afghanistan
David C. Thomas Part 2: Technology and the Environment 7. A Long-Term History of Horticultural Innovation and Introduction in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Tim Denham 8. Agricultural Economies and Pyrotechnologies in Bronze Age Jordan and Cyprus
Steven E. Falconer & Patricia L. Fall 9. Changing Technological and Social Environments in the Second Half of the Third Millennium BC in Cyprus
Jennifer M. Webb 10. Landscape Learning in Colonial Australia: Technologies of Water Management on the Central Highlands Goldfields of Victoria
Susan Lawrence & Peter Davies Part 3: Nature and Culture 11. Exploring Human-Plant Entanglements: The Case of Australian
Dioscorea Yams Jennifer
Atchison and Lesley Head 12. People and their Environments: Do Cultural and Natural Values Intersect in the Cultural Landscapes on the World Heritage List?
Anita Smith
About the author
David Frankel is Professor of Archaeology in the School of Historical and European Studies at La Trobe University, Australia.
Susan Lawrence is Associate Professor of Historical Archaeology in the School of Historical and European Studies at La Trobe University, Australia.
Jennifer Webb is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the School of Historical and European Studies at La Trobe University, Australia.
Summary
Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways. The chapters in this book take environment, culture, and technology together. All have been the focus of much attention; often one or other has been seen as the starting point for
