Gardens Of Prehistory

Author : Thomas W. Killion
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817305653
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gardens of Prehistory written by Thomas W. Killion and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1992-09-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardens of Prehistory details the social developments that were created by the prehistoric agricultural systems of the New World.

Author : Naomi F. Miller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812216417
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Garden and Field written by Naomi F. Miller and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultivation and land use practices the world over reflect many aspects of people's relationship to each other and to the natural world. The Archaeology of Garden and Field explores the cultivation of land from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century through excavation, experimentation, and the study of modern cultural traditions. The Archaeology of Garden and Field contains a wealth of information distilled from the combined experiences of the editors and contributors. Whether one's interest is the Old World or the New, prehistory or the present, this book provides a starting point for anyone who has ever wondered how archaeologists find and interpret the ephemeral traces of ancient cultivation.

Author : Maureen Carroll
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892367214
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earthly Paradises written by Maureen Carroll and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultivation of gardens played an integral role in both the public and private spheres of the ancient world. Whether grown as sources of food, symbols of wealth and prestige, or as dwellings for the gods, gardens were nurtured at every level of society. In this beautifully illustrated book, Maureen Carroll examines the most recent evidence for the existence, functions, and designs of gardens from the second millennium B.C. to the middle of the first millennium A.D. in the cultures of the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Italy, and the provinces of the Roman Empire. She looks at gardens in their many forms, including house gardens, orchards and parks, sacred gardens and cemetery gardens, and dedicates a chapter to gardens in ancient poetry. She also discusses ancient horticultural practices and the role of gardeners, concluding with a chapter on the survival of ancient gardening traditions in the Islamic and Byzantine worlds, and the perception and depiction of paradise in those cultures. Evidence is drawn from archaeological excavations, which can reveal the remains of gardens that were never mentioned in written sources, as well as from textual, pictorial, and environmental sources. Illustrated with delightful images from tomb and wall paintings, sculptural reliefs and manuscripts, as well as with informative reconstructions and plans, this book provides fascinating insights into the earthly paradises of antiquity. Book jacket.

Author : James Harvey McGregor
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300197462
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Back to the Garden written by James Harvey McGregor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural and ecological history of the Mediterranean region argues that the world's present environmental crisis is a result of the Western world's abandonment of a harmonious interrelationship between human communities and the natural world.

Author : James H. S. McGregor
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300210620
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Back to the Garden written by James H. S. McGregor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance on and kinship to the land, and they understood nature through the lens of their diversely cultivated landscape. Their image of the garden underwrote the biblical book of Genesis and the region’s three major religions. In this important melding of cultural and ecological histories, James H. S. McGregor suggests that the environmental crisis the world faces today is a result of Western society’s abandonment of the “First Nature” principle--of the harmonious interrelationship of human communities and the natural world. The author demonstrates how this relationship, which persisted for millennia, effectively came to an end in the late eighteenth century, when “nature” came to be equated with untamed landscape devoid of human intervention. McGregor’s essential work offers a new understanding of environmental accountability while proposing that recovering the original vision of ourselves, not as antagonists of nature but as cultivators of a biological world to which we innately belong, is possible through proven techniques of the past.

Author : Paul E. Minnis
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816502240
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America written by Paul E. Minnis and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul E. Minnis
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816502233
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People and plants in ancient western North America written by Paul E. Minnis and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Theoretical Archaeology Group (England). Conference
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521255264
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideology, Power and Prehistory written by Theoretical Archaeology Group (England). Conference and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-05-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book starts from the premise that methodology has always dominated archaeology to the detriment of broader social theory.

Author : Axel Steensberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Guinea Gardens written by Axel Steensberg and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europa - Neolithikum - Ethnologie.

Author : Anthony Ernest Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garden Archaeology written by Anthony Ernest Brown and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: