Rackham, D. J., ed. (1994). Environment and economy in Anglo-Saxon England:. York: Council for British Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1081811. Cite this using datacite

discusses the emphasis on economy and social structure in modern studies of Anglo-Saxon society, and the role played by economic, ideological and environmental imperatives. The analysis of anthropogenic biological assemblages is seen as the most important method of detecting the signals of change -- surplus and commodity. Emphasis is also given to taphonomic studies and the maritime environment

reviews sites from England and Wales with dated timbers, and examines the tree-ring data to provide further information on woodland exploitation, re-afforestation following the departure of the Romans, and trade links with other parts of Europe

reviews the economic evidence obtained from animal bones from sites in East Anglia, comparing it to the results from earlier Iron Age and Roman assemblages in the area

preliminary results from the botanical analyses of a series of sites within the Raunds Project are presented, most of the samples dating to the late Saxon period. The results are used to suggest a well developed agricultural economy

account of the results obtained during the first year of a three-year investigation of the plant and invertebrate remains from anoxic water-logged deposits associated with wattle structures at the early Christian rath mound. Stronger similarities have been found than predicted to assemblages from deposits formed on urban sites, and host-specific parasites from a range of domestic mammals and humans have been found.

the author argues that individual regions within the British Isles passed through economic stages as they became incorporated into an international trade network, followed by the collapse of that network and the emergence of a new trade axis in the ninth century. Midland and western Britain may have experienced a similar transformation following the foundation of burhs in the late-ninth and early-tenth centuries and the development of coastal ports, inland towns and rural markets in the later-tenth and eleventh centuries

recent environmental work is reviewed with a summary of the new results from the middle Saxon settlement on the Strand. Differences in the assemblages from peripheral or rural sites are contrasted with the consistency seen in the sites in the centre of Lundenwic. Results from later Saxon sites are discussed and the high status character of late Saxon assemblages from Westminster Abbey illustrated