The environmental archaeology of industry / edited by Peter Murphy and Patricia E.J. Wiltshire.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murphy, P. (Peter), 1950-

Wiltshire, Patricia E. J.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology ; 20.

Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial archaeology.

Environmental archaeology.

Physical Description:

208 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow, 2003.

Contents:

1. Professor Geoffrey William Dimbleby 27.5.1917

8.4.2000: An Appreciation / Bruce Proudfoot 1

2. Setting the Scene / Frank M. Chambers 4

Mining and smelting: environmental impacts

3. Reconstructing the environmental impact of past metallurgical activities / P. D. Marshall 10

4. An environmental approach to the archaeology of tin mining on Dartmoor / V. Thorndycraft, D. Pirrie, A. G. Brown 19

Industrial fuels

5. Wood-based industrial fuels and their environmental impact in lowland Britain / Rowena Gale 30

6. The iron production industry and its extensive demand upon woodland resources: a case study from Creeton Quarry, Lincolnshire / Jane Cowgill 48

Biological raw materials

7. Tanning and horn-working at late- and post- medieval Bruges: the organic evidence / Anton Ervynck, Bieke Hillewaert, Ann Maes, Mark Van Strydonck 60

8. Tawyers, tanners, horn trade and the mystery of the missing goat / Umberto Albarella 71

9. Choice and use of shells for artefacts at Roman sites in the Eastern Desert of Egypt / Sheila Hamilton-Dyer 87

Proxy indicators for industry

10. Industrial activities

some suggested microstratigraphic signatures: ochre, building materials and iron working / Richard Macphail 94

11. Deriving information efficiently from surveys of artefact distribution / R. S. Shiel, S. B. Mohamed 107

12. Can we identify biological indicator groups for craft, industry and other activities? / Allan Hall, Harry Kenward 114

13. Archaeological arthropod faunas as indicators of past industrial activities. Species composition, appearance and body part representation / Jaap Schelvis 131

14. Charred mollusc shells as indicators of industrial activities / Peter Murphy 135

15. Saxon flax retting in river channels and the apparent lack of water pollution / Mark Robinson 141

Industry and human health

16. The rise and fall of rickets in England / S. A. Mays 144

17. A comparison of health in past rural, urban and industrial England / Mary Lewis 154

18. Determining occupation from skeletal remains

is it possible? / Tony Waldron, Wendy Birch 162

19. The disposal and decomposition of human and animal remains: implications for health of people past and present / David W. Hopkins, Patricia E. J. Wiltshire 165.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

1842170848

OCLC:

187676838