Dartmoor Reaves

Download Dartmoor Reaves full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Dartmoor Reaves ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Dartmoor Reaves

Author : Andrew Fleming
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1911188720
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (111 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Dartmoor Reaves by : Andrew Fleming

Download or read book The Dartmoor Reaves written by Andrew Fleming and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, The Dartmoor Reaves is a classic story of archaeological fieldwork and discovery, and a winner of the Archaeological Book Award. This major new edition adds both color illustrations and two substantial new chapters to the original groundbreaking text, which revolutionized our understanding of Britain's prehistoric landscapes. Dartmoor has long been known for the richness of its prehistoric heritage; stone circles, hut circles, massive burial cairns, and stone rows all pepper the landscape. In the 1970s a new dimension was added, with the recognition that the long-ignored reaves (ruined walls) are also prehistoric; Dartmoor now posed all sorts of questions about the nature of Bronze Age society. Andrew Fleming describes the critical moment when his own fieldwork picked up the pattern of the reaves, and he realized their true identity. His new chapters place Dartmoor's large-scale, planned, prehistoric landscapes in the context of other 'co-axial' field systems that have since been found elsewhere, and also discuss their meaning, in the light of the latest research on the Bronze Age.

The Dartmoor Reaves

Author : Andrew Fleming
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Dartmoor Reaves by : Andrew Fleming

Download or read book The Dartmoor Reaves written by Andrew Fleming and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1988 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dartmoor Reaves

Author : Andrew Fleming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dartmoor Reaves by : Andrew Fleming

Download or read book Dartmoor Reaves written by Andrew Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Humans as Geologic Agents

Author : Judy Ehlen
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813741165
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Humans as Geologic Agents by : Judy Ehlen

Download or read book Humans as Geologic Agents written by Judy Ehlen and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Natural History of the Hedgerow

Author : John Wright
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847659357
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Natural History of the Hedgerow by : John Wright

Download or read book A Natural History of the Hedgerow written by John Wright and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is difficult to think of a more quintessential symbol of the British countryside than the British Hedgerow, bursting with blackberries, hazelnuts and sloes, and home to oak and ash, field mice and butterflies. But as much as we might dream about foraging for mushrooms or collecting wayside nettles for soup, most of us are unaware of quite how profoundly hedgerows have shaped the history of our landscape and our fellow species. One of Britain's best known naturalists, John Wright introduces us to the natural and cultural history of hedges (as well as ditches, dykes and dry stone walls) - from the arrival of the first settlers in the British Isles to the modern day, when we have finally begun to recognise the importance of these unique ecosystems. His intimate knowledge of the countryside and its inhabitants brings this guide to life, whether discussing the skills and craft of hedge maintenance or the rich variety of animals, plants, algae and fungi who call them home. Informative, practical, entertaining and richly illustrated in colour throughout, A Natural History of the Hedgerow is a book to stuff into your pocket for country walks in every season, or to savour in winter before a roaring fire.

Medieval Devon and Cornwall

Author : Sam Turner
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1911188291
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (111 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Medieval Devon and Cornwall by : Sam Turner

Download or read book Medieval Devon and Cornwall written by Sam Turner and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The countryside of Devon and Cornwall preserves an unusually rich legacy from its medieval past. This book explores the different elements which go to make up this historic landscape - the chapels, crosses, castles and mines; the tinworks and strip fields; and above all, the intricately worked counterpane of hedgebanks and winding lanes. Between AD 500 and 1700, a series of revolutions transformed the structure of the South West Peninsula's rural landscape. The book tells the story of these changes, and also explores how people experienced the landscape in which they lived: how they came to imbue places with symbolic and cultural meaning. Contributors include: Ralph Fyfe on the pollen evidence of landscape change; Sam Turner on the Christian landscape; Peter Herring on both strip fields and Brown Willy, Bodmin Moor; O. H. Creighton and J. P. Freeman on castles; Phil Newman on tin working; and Lucy Franklin on folklore and imagined landscapes.

Stone Worlds

Author : Barbara Bender
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315419637
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Stone Worlds by : Barbara Bender

Download or read book Stone Worlds written by Barbara Bender and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents an innovative experiment in presenting the results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project. The well-known authors and their team examined the Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes on Bodmin Moor of Southwest England, especially the site of Leskernick. The result is a multivocal, multidisciplinary telling of the stories of Bodmin Moor—both ancient and modern—using a large number of literary genres and academic disciplines. Dialogue, storytelling, poetry, photo essays and museum exhibits all appear in the volume, along with contributions from archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists, geologists, and ecologists. The result is a major synthesis of the Bronze Age settlements and ritual sites of the Moor, contextualized within the Bronze Ages of southwestern and central Britain, and a tracing of the changing meaning of this landscape over the past five thousand years. Of obvious interest to those in British prehistory, this is a substantial presentation of a groundbreaking project that will also be of interest to many concerned with the interpretation of social landscapes and the public presentation of archaeology.

Beyond the Medieval Village

Author : Stephen Rippon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191548022
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Beyond the Medieval Village by : Stephen Rippon

Download or read book Beyond the Medieval Village written by Stephen Rippon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The varied character of Britain's countryside provides communities with a strong sense of local identity. One of the most significant features of the landscape in Southern Britain is the way that its character differs from region to region, with compact villages in the Midlands contrasting with the sprawling hamlets of East Anglia and isolated farmsteads of Devon. Even more remarkable is the very 'English' feel of the landscape in southern Pembrokeshire, in the far south west of Wales. Hoskins described the English landscape as 'the richest historical record we possess', and in this volume Stephen Rippon explores the origins of regional variations in landscape character, arguing that while some landscapes date back to the centuries either side of the Norman Conquest, other areas across southern Britain underwent a profound change around the 8th century AD.

A Dictionary of Environmental History

Author : Ian Whyte
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857722204
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Environmental History by : Ian Whyte

Download or read book A Dictionary of Environmental History written by Ian Whyte and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing awareness of the extent and cause of environmental problems has fuelled the emergence of a new and timely discipline: environmental history. An exciting blend of geography, history, archaeology, anthropology, landscape, environment and science, it seeks to reveal how human activity has affected the environment in the past and how we, in turn, have been affected by that environment. How did people use and transform their environment? What problems of pollution and resource depletion occurred? What has been the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation? How have people's perceptions of nature and the environment changed over time? Environmental historians are revealing how and why our environment changed in the past, they are providing key insights into the mechanisms that influence environmental change today, and are helping to make informed decisions on crucial environmental concerns such as deforestation, desertification, pollution, global warming and climate change. Professor Whyte's A Dictionary of Environmental History provides in a single volume a comprehensive reference work covering the past 12,000 years of the Earth's environmental history. An introduction to the discipline is followed by almost 1,000 entries covering key terminology, events, places, dates, topics, as well as the major personalities in the history of the discipline. Entries range from shorter factual accounts to substantial mini-essays on major topics and issues. Fully cross-referenced and with an extensive bibliography, this pioneering work provides an authoritative yet accessible resourcethat will form essential reading for academics, practitioners and students of environmental history and related disciplines.

The Historic Landscape of Devon

Author : Lucy Ryder
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1905119968
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (51 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Historic Landscape of Devon by : Lucy Ryder

Download or read book The Historic Landscape of Devon written by Lucy Ryder and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19th century historic landscape of Devon developed from earlier patterns of landholdings and settlement that are, today, not always easily discernible on the ground. The study of Tithe Survey landholdings, field-names, and associated documentary evidence, together with the physical evidence of change and development through field and settlement pattern can be used to elucidate the relationship between field and settlement morphologies and patterns of 19th-century landholding. The combined evidence for three case-study areas – the Blackdown Hills, Hartland Moors, and the South Hams – is examined in detail though the creation, manipulation, and querying of a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) database. Key issues addressed include: how far back patterns of 19th century landholding can be traced, or projected, back into the medieval period; the occurrence and extent of open field farming in Devon; and the spread of nucleated and dispersed settlements. Looking beyond the physical aspects of landscapes, the idea of landscape pays and the identification of regional differences in the study of the historic landscape are investigating revealing how closely entwined are the physical and social landscapes of this historic county.

Making Sense of an Historic Landscape

Author : Stephen Rippon
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199533784
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Making Sense of an Historic Landscape by : Stephen Rippon

Download or read book Making Sense of an Historic Landscape written by Stephen Rippon and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how the archaeologist or historian can understand variations in landscapes. Making use of a wide range of sources and techniques, including archaeological material, documentary sources, and maps, Rippon illustrates how local and regional variations in the 'historic landscape' can be understood.

Land, Power and Prestige

Author : David T. Yates
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782974245
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Land, Power and Prestige by : David T. Yates

Download or read book Land, Power and Prestige written by David T. Yates and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major phase of economic expansion occurred in southern England during the second and early first millennium BC, accompanied by a fundamental shift in regional power and wealth towards the eastern lowlands. This book offers a synthesis of available data on Bronze Age lowland field systems in England, including a gazetteer of sites. The research demonstrates the importance of large-scale animal husbandry in the mixed farming regimes as evidenced in the design of the field systems which incorporate droveways, stock proof fencing, watering holes, cow pens, sheep races and gateways for stockhandling. It is argued that the field systems represented a form of conspicuous production, an "intensification" of agrarian endeavour or a statement of intent, to be understood in relation to the maintenance, display and promotion of hierarchical social systems involved in exchange with their counterparts across the English Channel.

Iron Age Communities in Britain

Author : Barry Cunliffe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134277245
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Iron Age Communities in Britain by : Barry Cunliffe

Download or read book Iron Age Communities in Britain written by Barry Cunliffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised fourth edition maintains the qualities of the earlier editions whilst taking into account the significant developments that have moulded the discipline in recent years.

Prehistoric Britain from the Air

Author : Timothy Darvill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521551328
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (513 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Prehistoric Britain from the Air by : Timothy Darvill

Download or read book Prehistoric Britain from the Air written by Timothy Darvill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a bird's eye look at the monumental achievements of Britain's earliest inhabitants. Arranged thematically, it illustrates and describes a wide selection of archaeological sites and landscapes dating from between 500,000 years ago and the Roman conquest. Timothy Darvill brings to life many of the familiar sites and monuments that prehistoric communities built, and exposes to view many thousands of sites that simply cannot be seen at ground level. Throughout the book, he makes a unique application of social archaeology to the field of aerial photography.

The Agrarian History of England and Wales: I. Prehistory, edited by Stuart Piggott

Author : Joan Thirsk
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521087414
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (874 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Agrarian History of England and Wales: I. Prehistory, edited by Stuart Piggott by : Joan Thirsk

Download or read book The Agrarian History of England and Wales: I. Prehistory, edited by Stuart Piggott written by Joan Thirsk and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1981 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

England

Author : Timothy Darvill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192841018
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis England by : Timothy Darvill

Download or read book England written by Timothy Darvill and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelling around England is in many senses a journey back in time. On all sides, and sometimes even under the road or footpath itself, there are fragments of the ancient past side by side with the clutter of the modern world. Medieval villages, castles, ancient churches, and Roman villas arecommonplace and take us back to the time of Christ. Far older, yet equally abundant, are the barrows, hillforts, stone circles, camps, standing stones, trackways, and other relics of prehistoric times that have survived for several thousand years.This Guide is all about these ancient remains: the prehistoric, Roman, and medieval sites which date from the time between the first appearance of people in what we now call England during the last Ice Age and the end of medieval times around 1600 AD.

Devon

Author : Bridget Cherry
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300095968
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (959 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Devon by : Bridget Cherry

Download or read book Devon written by Bridget Cherry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exeter Cathedral is but the crowning glory of Devon's wealth of medieval churches, replete with sumptuous fittings and monuments. The county's peak of prosperity from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth-century is reflected too in its castles, its secluded manor houses, and its scores of sturdily built farmhouses. The delights of Devon's well loved seaside and country towns are explored from the distinctive merchants' houses of Totnes and Topsham to the elegant Regency crescents of Teignmouth and Sidmouth. The picture is completed by accounts of the creation of the docks at Plymouth, industrial relics, and the substantial but little known store of Devon's Victorian churches.