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The Thames Through Time. The Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames - The Formation and Changing Environment of the Thames Valley and Early Human Occupation to 1500 BC.
Morigi, Tony; Schreve, Danielle; White, Mark; Hey, Gill. Ed(S): Dodd, Anne
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hardcover. A review of the rich and diverse evidence for understanding past climate and environmental change in the Thames Valley, and the effects on plant and animal populations and the challenges and opportunities these presented to early humans. Editor(s): Dodd, Anne. Num Pages: 582 pages, b/w and col illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKES; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 300 x 215 x 35. Weight in Grams: 2300.
A review of the rich and diverse evidence for understanding past climate and environmental change in the Thames Valley, and the effects on plant and animal populations and the challenges and opportunities these presented to early humans. Part 1 of this volume covers the Pleistocene, the epoch of the Ice Ages, in an integrated review of the geological, palaeontological and archaeological data for the last half million years and more. Part 2 takes up the story from the beginning of the Holocene, the warm period in which we are still living, ... Read more
A review of the rich and diverse evidence for understanding past climate and environmental change in the Thames Valley, and the effects on plant and animal populations and the challenges and opportunities these presented to early humans. Part 1 of this volume covers the Pleistocene, the epoch of the Ice Ages, in an integrated review of the geological, palaeontological and archaeological data for the last half million years and more. Part 2 takes up the story from the beginning of the Holocene, the warm period in which we are still living, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University School of Archaeology United Kingdom
Number of pages
582
Condition
New
Number of Pages
582
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780954962784
SKU
V9780954962784
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99-1
About Morigi, Tony; Schreve, Danielle; White, Mark; Hey, Gill. Ed(S): Dodd, Anne
Gill Hey is CEO of Oxford Archaeology with research interests in Neolithic Britain.
Reviews for The Thames Through Time. The Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames - The Formation and Changing Environment of the Thames Valley and Early Human Occupation to 1500 BC.
The result is a major work of synthesis - not just of local interest, for the authors constantly weave local examples of, say, causewayed enclosures into the national picture, contributing to such wider debates as whether, for example, earlier monuments tend to attract later monuments, resulting in monument clusters, or whether causewayed enclosures were built in frontier territory on newly ... Read more