Including significant 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 paradigms.

This original and controversial volume sets a new agenda for the study and understanding of environmental archaeology, and will prove an informative and useful purchase.

Offers an original and controversial approach which sets a new agenda for environmental archaeology.

The book covers a wide chronological and geological range, as well as focussing on a number of case studies from Europe and the British Isles.

Includes a large number of original and detailed illustrations.

The book will be suitable for a growing number of university courses on envionmental archaeology as well as for professional archaeologists.

Evans is a respected authority in this field and has done much to develop the study of environmental archaeology.