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Journal of wetland archaeology
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ISSN: 20516231 14732971 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford Oxbow


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The Wetland revolution in prehistory : proceedings of a conference held by the Prehistoric Society and WARP at the University of Exeter, April, 1991
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ISBN: 0951911708 Year: 1992 Publisher: Exeter, UK : [London] : WARP ; Prehistoric Society,


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

Between river and barrow : a reappraisal of bronze Age metalwork found in the province of East-Flanders (Belgium)
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ISBN: 0860548147 Year: 1996 Publisher: Oxford : BAR (British Archaeological Reports),


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The heritage management of wetlands in Europe
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ISBN: 907697201X 0951911791 9789076972015 9780951911792 Year: 2001 Volume: 1 Publisher: Bruxelles: Europae archaeologiae consilium,


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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
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ISBN: 9780199566204 0199566208 9780199657087 0199657084 9780191634376 0191634379 1283577615 9781283577618 0191917842 9786613890061 9780191917844 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] 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
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ISBN: 1782979670 9781782979678 1782979662 9781782979661 9781782979692 1782979697 9781782979685 1782979689 Year: 2016 Publisher: Oxford Philadelphia

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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.

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