文档介绍：ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND
THE SOCIAL ORDER
This original and controversial volume sets a new agenda for the study and
understanding of environmental archaeology. Instead of seeing -
munities as mapping their activities onto the environment and using it in a
cost-effective way, the environment is here seen as a means through which
people explore their social world.
Environmental Archaeology and the Social Order presents a wide variety
of case-studies, ranging fromearly Palaeolithic to Post-modern,and from
Europe to the Andes, West and East Africa, and the USA. The book deals
with both the theory and method of environmental archaeology, with sig-
nificant sections on Neanderthals, Palaeolithic mobiliary art and the origins of
farming, as well as transhumance, climate as social construct, field survey
and the place of documents in environmental research. Professor Evans
interprets his findings in social constructionist terms, creating an important
argument against the use of traditional materialist and processualist para-
digms.
This innovative and challenging volume sets environmental archaeology
within contemporary agency theory, and effectively integrates archaeological
science into mainstream archaeological discourse. It should appeal to archae-
ology students and professionals alike and provide an important new direc-
tion for the future of environmental archaeology.
John G. Evans is Professor in the School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff
University. His most recent books are Land and Archaeology and, with Terry
O’Connor, Environmental Archaeology.
ENVIRONMENTAL
ARCHAEOLOGY
AND THE
SOCIAL ORDER
John G. Evans
First published 2003
by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.
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