Archaeologia Polona vol. 37:1999 Special Theme: Archaeology and Ecology Description: 167 pages, drawings, photos, Condition: very good Weight: 320g. Price: $15.68 This item is in stock Quantity:

Archaeologia Polona vol. 37:1999 Special Theme: Archaeology and Ecology, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 1999



Editorial

Neolithic penetration of European Mid Mountains

Pawel Valde-Noivak Identifying a Bronze Age landscape - ideology and settlement organisation

in a southwestern Swedish river valley

Tore Artelius The shell-midden sites of RHj AND RH6 (Muscat, Sultanate of Oman) in

their environmental setting

Pao/o Biagi and Renato Nisbet Society and the environment. A case study of Early Bronze Age settlement

complex from Rybiny, Kujawy, Poland

Przemjsiaiv Makarouic and Krystyna Milecka Environmental reasons of migrations of the South-East Europe population

in the ist jth centuries A.D.

A.M. Oblomski, 0. V. Petrauskas and R. V. Terpilovski Early medieval wells from Pfcttrach in Bavaria: cultural ecology of an early Bavarian village

Bernd Tingelhardt, Dariusz Krasnodebski, Mirosiaiva Kupryjanoivicz and Maria Michniewicz North Atlantic turf architecture as an example of environmental adaptation

Pr^emyslaw Urbancsyk The medieval castle Lanzcnkirchcn in Lower Austria: reconstruction of

economical and ecological development of an average-sized manor

(12th- 15th century)

Thomas Kiihtreiber Economy and environment ? contribution to the birth of medieval town in Pultusk

Andrzej Golembnik Archaeological sites as national monuments - two examples from Sweden

Gustav Trot^tg


 

 

Relationships between archaeology and ecology arc obvious and multiaspcc-tual. Archaeological sites, besides the data on prehistoric technologies, economics or social relationships, encompass also enormous resources of environmental data, enabling the reconstruction of natural landscape, which had determined human activities in the past and which people had actively transformed, making it suitable for their needs. Analysis of these data can bring deeper understanding of econo?mic, cultural and social changes in prehistory and early history. It is therefore obvious that an archaeologist cannot ignore the presence of these data in his or her attempt to describe and understand history of humankind.<>

At the same time the relationships between archaeology and ecology have also other, less frequently realized aspect. Archaeological sites, which have survived to our times, became themselves part of our contemporary cultural environment. How to protect and preserve these elements of our cultural landscape, how they influence our life and how can we use them for the benefit of general public - these questions also should be answered by archaeology.

The present volume takes its beginning with the international conference, which was held in 1997 at Biclsk Podlaski - little town in the eastern part of Poland. The place to hold this conference was chosen deliberately: the north?eastern part of Poland is a region where natural landscape is still only minimally transformed by man, region where enormous areas of forests, non-regulated bogs and meadows survived. Visiting this part of the country it is possible to imagine the original environmental conditions in which cultures and civilizations developed in the past?

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