| Botanical Aspects of Environment and Economy at Gordion, Turkey Subjects: Gordion (Extinct city) -- Antiquities; Gordion (Extinct city) -- Environmental conditions; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Turkey -- Gordion (Extinct city); Plant remains (Archaeology) -- Turkey -- Gordion (Extinct city); Land use -- Turkey -- Gordion (Extin; This work is a contribution to both the archaeobotany of west Asia and the archaeology of the site of Gordion in central Anatolia (present-day Turkey). The book's major concern is understanding long-term changes in the environment and in land use. Naomi F. Miller is an archaeobotanist and member of the Near East Section at the Penn Museum. She is author of Drawing on the Past: An Archaeologist's Sketchbook, editor of Economy and Settlement in the Near East: Analyses of Ancient Sites and Materials, and coeditor (with Kathryn Gleason) of The Archaeology of Garden and Field, all of which are available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |