Environmental Archaeology

Contents: Reconstructing Woodland Vegetation and its Exploitation by Past Societies, based on the Analysis and Interpretation of Archaeological Wood Charcoal Macro-Remains (Eleni Asouti and Phil Austin); Prehistoric Use of Ringed Seals: A Zooarchaeological Study from Arctic Canada (Maribeth Suzanne Murray); Early Bronze Age Crop Plants from Yenibademli Hoyuk (Gokceada), Western Turkey (Emel Oybak Donmez); Sub-Local Differences in Late Holocene Land Use at Orstad, Jaeren in SW Norway, revealed by Soil Pollen Stratigraphy (Barbara M. Sageidet); Decadal-scale sea ice changes in the Canadian Arctic and their impacts on humans during the past 4,000 years (Peta J. Mudie, Andre Rochon and Elisabeth Levac); Fishing Booths and Fishing Strategies in Medieval Iceland: an Archaeofauna from the of Akurvik, North-West Iceland (Colin Amundsen et al); Wild and Cultivated Vegetables, Herbs and Spices in Greek Antiquity (900 B.C. to 400 B.C.) (Fragkiska Megaloudi); An Experimental Approach to the Disaggregation of Samples from Peat Deposits (Joanna Bending); First Discovery of Black Mulberry (Morus L. Nigra) Pollen in a Late Bronze Age Well at Sint-Gillis-Waas (Flanders, Belgium): Contamination or in situ Deposition? (Vanessa Gelorini and Jean Bourgeois); 'Science is measurement'; ABMAP, a database of domestic animal bone measurements (Dale Serjeantson); Reviews. (Oxbow Books 2005)