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FURTHER READING
Anderson, D. E, Goudie, A. S. and Parker, A. G. (2007) Global Environments through the Quaternary: exploring environmental
change, Oxford: Oxford University Press. One of four complementary texts and the most up-to-date, comprehensive
general textbook with an evidence-based account of the entire Quaternary period.
Bell, M. and Walker, M. J. C. (2005) Late Quaternary Environmental Change: physical and human perspectives, second
edition, Harlow: Longman. An excellent and updated account of the past c. 25 kyr of interlinked climate, environmental
and human history crafted by an archaeologist (Bell) and geologist (Walker), concluding with contemporary and future
perspectives.
Brookfield, M. E. (2004)
Principles of Stratigraphy, Oxford: Blackwell. Of many textbooks on stratigraphy, Brookfield's
provides a modern, well-illustrated and very usable account for geography and environmental science students.
Lamb, H. H. (1995) Climate, History and the Modern World, second edition, London: Routledge. A key textbook linking
historical records and the use of documents with scientific evidence and records of climate and related environmental
change and human impacts, written by a leading pioneer of historical climate/environment study.
Lowe, J. J. and Walker, M. J. C. (1997) Reconstructing Quaternary Environments, second edition, Harlow: Longman. This
text focuses on the nature of Quaternary environmental evidence, with a shorter section on dating methodology, and
concludes with a review of the most recent, late Pleistocene interglacial-glacial cycle.
Rapp, G., Jr, and Hill, C.L. (1998) Geoarchaeology: the earth-science approach to archaeological interpretation, New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press. The archaeological perspective on environmental reconstruction, illustrating how it
complements but also adds substantially to geological perspectives.
Walker, M. J. C. (2005) Quaternary Dating Methods, Chichester: Wiley. Walker provides an up-to-date focus on dating
methodology which complements, rather than duplicates, his joint textbook with J. J. Lowe.
WEB RESOURCES
http://www.archaeology.org/ T
he website of the Archaeological Institute of America, providing not only access to its own
work, publications and news but a very large number of hyperlinks to archaeological and related websites around the
world, and appropriate related disciplines.
http://www.inqua.tcd.ie/index.html T
he International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) is the largest world body
of scientists engaged in all environmental and human aspects of the Quaternary period of geological time (the past
2.6 Ma). The website explains INQUA's mission and provides access to its publications, research projects and - through
them - access to other relevant websites.
