David Brown Book Company
Wetland archaeology & environments; regional issues, global perspectives.
This study, which follows the completion of the Humber Wetlands Project based at the U. of Hull, contains 23 chapters from contributors from around the world who outline the state of wetland cultural and palaeoenvironmental knowledge, methodological approaches, and theoretical aspects in the field. Lillie (geography, U. of Hull) and Ellis (U. of Hull Wetlands Archaeology Research Centre) bring together papers that discuss the resource wetlands provide and ways archaeologists excavate and interpret them, covering a variety of site types, methods, and geographical areas in Russia, Sweden, England, and Indonesia. The final section considers wetland landscapes as organic environments important to human-landscape interactions. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Who owns objects?; the ethics and politics of collecting cultural artefacts; proceedings.
As an informed stroll through any western museum will attest, archeology has become inextricably bound with ethics and considerations of cultural sovereignty. Drawn from a seminar series held from October to December 2004, and motivated in part by the looting of cultural objects in recent military conflicts, these nine essays reflect the long and strong debate amongst archeologists, museums, and the legal antiquities trade. Their contributors describe the case for an open public debate on cultural artifacts, changes in collecting over the past 50 years, accessibility to the public and to scholars, new legal and voluntary codes, views from the antiquities and coin trades, the debate on cultural property, recent UK regulations against illicit trade in cultural objects, and lessons on repatriation learned from the Glasgow experience. Distributed in the US by The David Brown Book Co. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
William Morris's Kelmscott; landscape and history.
The Thames-side village of Kelmscott has been transformed by its association with William Morris, a 19th-century novelist, conservationist, utopian socialist, and father of the Arts and Crafts tradition. This portrait of the village originates in the Kelmscott Landscape Project, established in 1996 by the Society of Antiquaries, the present owners of Kelmscott Manor. The book examines Kelmscott's archaeology, from prehistory to the present, and looks at the architectural development of Kelmscott Manor before and after Morris knew it, as well as other historic buildings in the village. It is illustrated with color and b&w historical and contemporary photos, drawings, and paintings on every page. Crossley is a historian. The book is distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Winchester Palace; excavations at the Southwark residence of the bishops of Winchester.
This volume describes the site and building sequence of the bishop of Winchester's palace (now in Southwark) from the earliest finds through the initial building in the 12th century, rebuilding in the 13th century, and continuing additions and changes into the 17th century. The analysis is based on excavations carried out in the 1980s together with study of the historical record. The volume is oversized (8.25x11.75 inches) and well illustrated with drawings, plans, diagrams, photos, and historical views. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
A woodland archaeology; neolithic sites at Haddenham.
This publication (the first in a two-volume set) provides the details of sites excavated at Haddenham, north of Cambridge. Evans (Cambridge U. Archaeological Unit) and Hodder (cultural and social anthropology, Stanford U.), along with other contributing specialists, describe the results of the U. of Cambridge's research excavations in the marshland environs of Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, along the lower fenland reaches of the River Great Ouse. They focus on long-term construction of the cultural landscape, regional environmental adaptation, and the changing interrelationship and constitution of ritual settlement over time. Methodology and process are explained, in addition to themes of community resolution, marginalization, and representation. Analogical commentaries from local and international sources are incorporated. Fieldwork was undertaken from 1981-1987, during the later phases of the Fenland Survey Project. Diagrams and photos are included. The book is intended for practitioners of British and European prehistory and wetland and landscape archaeologists. Distributed in the US by The David Brown Book Co. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
World enough, and time; the travel chronicles of Mrs. J. Theodore Bent; v.1: Greece and the Levantine Littoral.
The Anglo-Irish woman of means and her English archaeological adventurer husband spent 20 years traveling the world together. He wrote scholarly books that were published. She kept detailed journals, which found their way to the Hellenic Society in London after she died in 1929 and remained there until now. This first volume presents Mabel Brent's chronicles of their travels and archaeological and ethnographic findings around the Aegean Sea from 1883-98. The other two volumes will cover Arabia and the Near East, and Egypt and Africa. Editors Gerland Brisch and Brenda Stones provide explanatory footnotes, biographical sketches that double as an index of people, and an index of places. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
