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Rivers in prehistory
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ISBN: 1784911798 9781784911799 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress,


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Ten thousand years of cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
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ISBN: 1760461164 1760461156 9781760461164 9781760461157 Year: 2017 Publisher: Acton, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press,

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Kuk is a settlement at c. 1600 m altitude in the upper Wahgi Valley of the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, near Mount Hagen, the provincial capital. The site forms part of the highland spine that runs for more than 2500 km from the western head of the island of New Guinea to the end of its eastern tail. Until the early 1930s, when the region was first explored by European outsiders, it was thought to be a single uninhabited mountain chain. Instead, it was found to be a complex area of valleys and basins inhabited by large populations of people and pigs supported by the intensive cultivation of the tropical American sweet potato on the slopes above swampy valley bottoms.With the end of World War II, the area, with others, became a focus for the development of coffee and tea plantations, of which the establishment of Kuk Research Station was a result. Large-scale drainage of the swamps produced abundant evidence in the form of stone axes and preserved wooden digging sticks and spades for their past use in cultivation. Investigations in 1966 at a tea plantation in the upper Wahgi Valley by a small team from The Australian National University yielded a date of over 2000 years ago for a wooden stick collected from the bottom of a prehistoric ditch.The establishment of Kuk Research Station a few kilometres away shortly afterwards provided an ideal opportunity for a research project.


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North sea archaeologies : a maritime biography, 10,000 BC - AD 1500
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ISBN: 9780199566204 0199566208 9780199657087 0199657084 9780191634376 0191634379 1283577615 9781283577618 0191917842 9786613890061 9780191917844 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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'North Sea Archaeologies' is an innovative study analysing the archaeology of the North Sea, and the way surrounding peoples engaged with it, from the end of the last ice age, c.10,000 BC, to the close of the Middle Ages, c.AD 1500.


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Living With the Flood: Mesolithic to Post-Medieval Archaeological Remains at Mill Lane, Sawston, Cambridgeshire : A Wetland/dryland Interface
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ISBN: 1782979670 9781782979678 1782979662 9781782979661 9781782979692 1782979697 9781782979685 1782979689 Year: 2016 Publisher: Oxbow Books

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River valleys have been a focus for human activity since the early Holocene and, in addition to providing abundant archaeological evidence for this activity, the proximity to water also highlights the potential for the preservation of both archaeological remains and palaeoenvironmental source material. However, human activity within river valleys also commonly bridges areas of both wetland and dryland; ecological zones which are often approached using quite different archaeological methods and which present considerable differences in levels of archaeological visibility and preservation. The site at Mill Lane offered an opportunity to explore the interface between these two types of environment. Here we present the results of the study of a wetland/dryland interface on the edge of palaeochannels of the River Cam in Cambridgeshire.

Living on the lake in prehistoric Europe : 150 years of lake-dwelling research
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ISBN: 1134371802 0203348222 1134371810 1280047186 0203583205 9781134371808 9781280047183 9780203583203 9781134371761 9781134371815 9780415317191 9780415317207 Year: 2004 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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A survey of the history and current state of research on lake-dwelling in Europe. Timed to mark the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the study of prehistoric lake-dwellers.


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War and worship : textiles from 3rd to 4th-century AD weapon deposits in Denmark and Northern Germany
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ISBN: 1842176595 1842176579 9781842176573 9781842176597 9781842174289 1842174282 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford, England ; Oakville, Connecticut : Oxbow Books,

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War and Worship concerns textile deposits from the bog sites of Thorsberg in Germany and Nydam, Vimose and Illerup Ådal in Denmark. All four sites are well-known for containing a substantial amount of archaeological materials, particularly weapons, but they also contain, as integral parts of the weapon deposits, a smaller number of preserved textiles, which nevertheless constitute outstanding assemblages. With the exception of Thorsberg, publications dealing particularly with textiles from weapon deposits are almost non-existent. The textiles from each site are analysed, then compared to one a


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Flag Fen, Peterborough : excavation and research 1995-2007
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ISBN: 1842177680 1842177702 9781842177709 9781842177686 9781842174142 1842174142 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford, England ; Oakville, Connecticut : Oxbow Books,

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The site at Flag Fen lies at the centre of a once-wet Fenland bay, immediately east of Peterborough. In the Bronze Age a huge alignment of posts crossed a kilometer of wetland to link the two sides of one of the most important and intensively studied prehistoric landscapes in Britain. This volume discusses work carried out at Flag Fen since the completion, in 1995, of the comprehensive Flag Fen Basin Report (EH Archaeology Report, 2001). That monograph published results from the excavations of the Bronze Age platform and the western (Fengate) landfall of the post alignment. Picking up where the last publication left off, this volume looks at the risk to the waterlogged, in-situ prehistoric remains on the site in the context of ongoing de-watering of the Fengate area. In addition it includes detailed investigations of the post alignment's previously unpublished eastern (Northey Island) landfall. New research including oxygen isotope analyses of animal teeth provides interesting, and at times surprising, insights into the economy and the complex role played by domestic animals. The volume also includes a re-assessment of the role that large timbers played at Flag Fen, and elsewhere in Bronze Age Britain.

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