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ISBN 10: 0415304032
ISBN 13: 9780415304030
Author: John G Evans
Presenting a wide variety of case studies, ranging from the early Palaeolithic to Post-modernity, and from Europe to the Andes, West and East Africa, and the USA, Environmental Archaeology and the Social Order deals with both the theory and method of environmental archaeology. Including significant sections on Neanderthals, Palaeolithic mobiliary art and the origins of farming, as well as transhumance, climate as social construct, field survey and the place of documents in environmental research, Professor Evans interprets his findings in social constructionist terms, creating an important argument against the use of traditional materialist and processualist paradigms. This original and controversial volume sets a new agenda for the study and understanding of environmental archaeology, and will prove an informative and useful purchase.
1 A Brief History of Environmental Archaeology
Earlier Years
Ecological Objectivism
The Damage of a Culture of Maximization
Different Styles of Landscape: Different Kinds of Sociality
Interpretive Archaeology
Conclusions
2 Sociality and Environment
The Social Universe: Its Atomic Structure
The Primacy of Sociality
Structures of Cognition
The Functional and the Social: Some Perspectives
Environment
Social Intensification
Taking in Time
Different Materialities
Conclusions
3 Textures Help a Person Think
Experiencing Texture
Some Structure
Neolithic and Mesolithic Textures of Soil
Breaking the soil
Before agriculture
Stones
Marginal Land: A Diversity of Visualities
Lynchets
Plaggen soils
Alluvium
A Very Different Era
Conclusions
4 Chalkland Landscapes
Research Strategies
River Valley Environments
Environments of Hunter-Gatherers
A Diversity of Valleys
Ploughmarks and Potsherds
Bronze Age Visualities
Iron Age Settlements: Tracks of Pottery
The Middle Ages
Conclusions
5 Climate
But what is Climate?
Climate as a Social Construct
Experiencing climate
Climate and science
Different Scales of Time
The sun
Peat bogs and lake sediments
Tephra and peat bogs
Seasons and documents
A Few Bad Years: Hope and Despair
The Lammermuir Hills
Palaeolithic Europe
Conclusions
6 Surveys in Temperate and Mediterranean Countries
Maddle Farm
East Brittany
The Roman period
The Middle Ages
The post-Medieval period
Stone and slate
Document-making
South-East Greece
The rural landscape
Urban surveys
The social domain
Pottery Scatters
Relations with Soil Erosion
A Bigger Picture
Conclusions
7 Text, Monuments and Land
Text and Monumentality
Transitions to Text
Text and Socialities
The development of socialities through writing
Roman property laws
Early charters
The Llandaff Charters
Text and Land
Conclusions
8 Transhumance
Learning
Some General Characteristics
The European Alps
South-East Italy
Winter Transhumance
Ancient Greece
The Estancia Copacabana of South-West Bolivia
Transhumance in Wales
Transhumance and Socialities
The significance of transience
The significance of animals
Questions of community
Different levels of time
Conclusions
9 Hunting and Death in Neanderthal Europe
Bones in the Land
Landscapes of Death
Articulations with Meaning
Neanderthal Worlds, Neanderthal Burials
Other Materialities
Race and gender
Fire-places
Exotic stone
Animal bones
Site type
Focusing on Bovids
Engagement with Socialities
Conclusions
10 The Origins of Farming in South-West Asia
Theories
Farming origins as a synchronous global phenomenon
Origins as social structure
Farming as social intensification
Plant Domestication
Social expression in plants
The nature of origins
The social significance of origins
The social significance of plant agriculture
Animal Domestication
The nature of animal domestication
The social significance of animal domestication
Human Relationships with Sheep and Goats
Different Levels of Time
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