Early human societies and their interactions with the natural world have been extensively explored in palaeoenvironmental studies across Central and Western Europe. Yet, despite an extensive body of scholarship, there is little consideration of the environmental impacts of proto-historic urbanisation. Typically palaeoenvironmental studies of Bronze and Iron Age societies discuss human impact in...

Currently, there are some 222 records in the Nottinghamshire Sites and Monuments Record (SMR) which are relevant to the First Millennium B.C. These records include 19 finds of Late Bronze Age metalwork, 5 examples of Iron Age metalwork, 9 find-spots of Iron Age coins, 57 find-spots of pottery ascribed to the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, 21 finds of other objects ascribed to these two periods, ...

INTRODUCTION CIVILIZATION rose to two great heights in ancient Greece, namely in the Bronze age and in the later Classical period. In the latter medicine advanced considerably and culminated in the work of Hippocrates. Knowledge of medicine in the Greek Bronze age depended on the study of Homer until this century, when work in the fields of archaeology and philology provided more facts. This wo...

Reconstructing ancient diets and the use of animals and plants augment our understanding of how humans adapted to different environments. Yunnan Province in southwest China is ecologically and environmentally diverse. During the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, this region was occupied by a variety of local culture groups with diverse subsistence systems and material culture. In this paper, we...