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'Land and People: Papers in memory of John G. Evans'
Edited by Michael J. Allen, Niall Sharples and Terry O’Connor.
Full details and order form available here. Print the order form and send it to Oxbow Books, 10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2EW, UK.
Land and People is a Prehistoric Society Research Paper, the newly launched peer-reviewed monograph series, published by the Prehistoric Society with Oxbow Books. This volume is published in association with the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland, and is dedicated to John Evans in celebration of his contribution to environmental archaeology. The 20 papers cover many aspects of the research which he engaged in during his career; typically in relation to land snails, but also regarding a series of other aspects of prehistoric environmental archaeology, ideas of texture and social order. Furthermore, the appreciation of John Evans first published in 2006 in Journal of Conchology 39 is re-published here with some additional comments as well as a number of other molluscan references omitted from the previous list, and several published since then.
'Snails: Archaeology and Landscape Change' by Paul Davies
The remains of snails in ancient soils and sediments are one of the most important biological indicators of past landscapes, and have attracted study for well over a century. In spite of this, the only English-language textbook was published in 1972 and is long since out of print. Snails provides a comprehensive, up to date reference text on the use of snails as indicators of past environments in Quaternary landscape studies and archaeology. It considers the use of terrestrial and freshwater sub-fossil snail remains as indicators of Late Quaternary (c. last 15,000 years) environmental change and as indicators of past environments and human impacts on the landscape. The volume also demonstrates how an understanding of modern snail ecology can be used to enhance our interpretation of landscape archaeology, and provides a detailed contextual approach to the main types of deposits in which snail remains are found. Davies also puts forward an agenda for future research on the use of snails in archaeological and environmental reconstruction. 208p (Oxbow Books 2008. Hardback price:£40)
Available to members in U.K. at discounted price of £26 plus £3 P&P. Please contact Bas Payne to place your order by e-mail to 