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020			_a9781785705144
028			_aInternational Book Distributors _b;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,New Delhi-110002 _c;114884 _d;23/12/2019
082			_a564.309 DAV
100			_aPaul Davies
245			_aSnails _b: archaeology and landscape change _c/Paul Davies
260			_aOxford ; Oakville, CT _b: Oxbow Books _c, ©2008.
300			_axiii, 199 pages _c; 29 cm
365			_b3688
505			_a 1. Introduction to molluscan analysis : principles and practice -- 2. Neoecology : aspects of distribution and habitat-based studies -- 3. Late-glacial and postglacial environmental change : the molluscan framework -- 4. Modern and past : archaeology and land-use histories -- 5. Archaeology : monuments, contexts and land-use histories -- 6. Tufa deposits -- 7. Overbank alluvium -- 8. Colluvium, scree and cave deposits -- 9. Blown sand and associated contexts -- 10. Freshwater deposits -- 11. Epilogue : future directions -- App. 1. Habitat classification and ecological groups -- App. 2. Notes on British species ecology and identification : freshwater and brackish species -- App. 3. Habitat preferences of the Sphaeriidae in Switzerland -- App. 4. Notes on British species ecology and identification : terrestrial species.
520			_aThe fact that shells remain preserved in some ancient sediments and soils, and can be used for environmental reconstruction, has been known for over a century. It is now over thirty years since the first textbook on sub-fossil molluscan analysis as applied to the British Isles appeared and, since then, both sub-fossil molluscan studies and archaeology have changed a good deal. The latter, in particular, has become more interested in 'off-site' contexts and the creation and modification of 'landscapes' as a whole, areas of study in which Mollusca were already proven as a useful biological tool. Molluscan analysis itself has adopted, or at least tried, various sampling and interpretative strategies, and obviously amassed a great deal more data." "This book covers the general principles and methods, the importance of understanding modern molluscan ecology and discusses recent studies and advances in archaeologically related molluscan research. On a more general level, it takes a broad European perspective and provides case studies from non-archaeological contexts including chapters on wet-ground deposits such as tufa and overbank alluvium, colluvial, scree and cave deposits, blown sand, and fluvial deposits such as lake and channel fills. In this respect the book largely takes a contextual approach, providing commentary and case-studies according to the types of sediments involved rather than adopting a strict chronological approach to late-Quaternary landscape development
650			_aAnimal remains (Archaeology)
655			_aGastropoda, Fossil.
700			_aPaul Davies
942			_cBOOK