Chapter 1 Contemporary community ecology and environmental, John H.R. Gee, Paul S. Giller; Chapter 2 On the relationship between palaeoecology and neoecology, Keith Barber; Chapter 3 Phytosociology and Archaeobotany, Hansjôrg Hansjôrg; Chapter 4 Phytosociology and Ancient Weed Floras: Taking Account of Taphonomy and Changes in Cultivation Methods, Gordon Hillman; Chapter 5 Spatial scale in the pollen record, Richard Bradshaw; Chapter 6 Spatial scale and palynology: a commentary on Bradshaw, Kevin J. Edwards; Chapter 7 Using space in cultural palynology: the value of the off-site pollen record, Kevin J. Edwards; Chapter 8 An approach to the interpretation of dry-ground and wet-ground molluscan taxocenes from central-southern England, J.G. Evans; Chapter 9 Modelling ecological change in environmental archaeology, David R. Harris, Kenneth D. Thomas;