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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Buteux, Simon. Éditeur scientifique
Chambers, Jenni
Silva, Barbara
Titre(s) : Digging up the Ice Age [Texte imprimé] : recognising, recording and understanding fossil and archaeological remains found in British quarries : a guide and practical handbook / Simon Buteux, Jenni Chambers, Barbara Silva ; edited by Simon Buteux ; with contributions by David Keen, Danielle Schreve and Mark Stephens
Publication : Oxford : Archaeopress, c2009
Description matérielle : v, 189 p. : col., ill., col. maps ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
It was during the Ice Age that today's world took shape. It was then that many of
the animals that share our world - including our own species Homo sapiens - evolved,
while others were driven to extinction. These developments took place against the
background of a climate that see-sawed between cold and warm, and the advance and
retreat of huge ice sheets, which shaped the British landscape. If we think beyond
the short term, we are still living in the Ice Age. Understanding its changing climates,
environments and inhabitants is essential to understanding today's world and some
of the challenges that we face ; The sands and gravels laid down by rivers contain
perhaps the most important archives of the Ice Age that we possess, in the form of
sediments, fossils and human artefacts. Quarrying opens up these archives. It enables
Ice Age climates, environments, plants and animals to be reconstructed in remarkable
detail. It shines a light on human evolution. However, quarrying is also destructive.
Only if we know what to look for, and make a positive effort to adequately record
and recover what is found, can the benefits of quarrying for research into the Ice
Age be realised ; This handbook, packed with practical information and guidance, and
with more than 140 illustrations, many in colour, is written for all who care about
this goal: geologists and archaeologists, those charged with caring for the natural
and historic environment, anybody with an interest in our past and future, and not
least those working in the quarry industry. --Book Jacket
Sujet(s) : Fouilles archéologiques -- Grande-Bretagne
Glaciations -- Grande-Bretagne
Outils préhistoriques -- Grande-Bretagne
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781905739240 (pbk.). - ISBN 1905739249 (pbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44387373x
Notice n° :
FRBNF44387373
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