Life on the edge : human settlement and marginality /
Conference: Association for Environmental Archaeology conference Edinburgh, Scotland : 1992.
Contributor(s): Coles, Geraint | Mills, C. M. (Coralie M.).
Series: Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology ; no. 13; Oxbow monograph ; 100.Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow Books, c1998Description: xii, 187 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1900188570; 9781900188579.Subject(s): Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- Congresses | Marginality, Social -- Congresses | Agriculturally marginal lands -- History -- Congresses | Land settlement patterns -- Congresses | Environmental archaeology -- CongressesDDC classification: 930.1Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 930.1 ASS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0074169 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Cereal cultivation on the Anglo-Scottish border during the "Little Ice Age" / Richard Tipping -- Bad for trees, bad for humans? / Michael G.L. Baillie -- The response of marginal societies and ecosystems in Britain to Icelandic volcanic eruptions / John Grattan -- Human responses to marginality / Ian Armit -- The spread of cultivation into the marginal land in Ireland during the 18th and early 19th centuries / Jonathan Bell -- The facts don't speak for themselves / Mervyn Watson -- Calf slaughter as a response to marginality / Finbar McCormick -- On the outside looking in / Sue Stallibrass -- Disturbance and regeneration phases in pollen diagrams and their relevance to concepts of marginality / Kevin J. Edwards and Graeme Whittington -- Shredding and the production of winter fodder in northern Greece / John Tierney -- A study of anthropogenic activity and pedogenesis from the 2nd millennium BC to the 2nd millennium AD at Lairg, northern Scotland / Timothy G. Acott.
These papers attempt to sort out the "catchall" of marginality, wading into the determinism debate, and questioning whether archaeology competently can investigate the issue.