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Plants in Neolithic Britain and Beyond

by Andrew S Fairbairn

Plant-centred issues are fundamental in the definitions and explanations of the Neolithic as a phenomenon.The meeting of the Neolithic Studies Group from which this volume developed aimed to provide a forum for the wide range of approaches now applied to Neolithic archaeobotany at site and landscape scales of resolution. 210p, b/w figs (Oxbow Books for Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 5, 2000)

Review Quotes

"Given the diversity of papers, anybody with a strong interest in plant use during the Neolithic will find something thought-provoking and useful in this volume. It should also appeal to a wider audience, acting as a useful reference for those, such as palaeoecologists, who wish to gain an up-to-date overview of current evidence and thinking on plant use in the Neolithic. The book will also be a useful source of reference for final-year undergraduates studying Holocene environmental change, especially those courses that evaluate the role of prehistoric cultures on the environment."

Tim Mighall
The Holocene, 12 (2002)

"Investigations of plant and insect remains usually remain separate from studies of monuments, lithic scatters and landscape studies. To bring these categories of evidence into the 'taskscapes' of the British Neolithic is to pursue a truly multi-disciplinary approach to landscape interpretation."

"...well worth a read..."

Helen Evans
Assemblage, 6 (2001)

Table of Contents

Bringing plants into the taskscape (A Whittle)
High resolution maping of landscapes and landuse (M J Allen)
Coleopteran evidence for the elm decline (M Robinson)
Plant rescources on a crannog (C Warsop)
Floodplain vegetation history (A G Brown)
Woodland, trees and people in southern Britain (P Austin)
The importance of cultivation and collecting in Britain (G Jones)
Charred cereals, fruits and nuts (Mark Robinson)
Wheat crops of Britain (F McLaren)
Neolithization of the Netherlands (C Bakels)
Spread of plant crops across Britain (A Fairbairn)
Human consumption of plant foods in the British Neolithic (M P Richards)
Neolithic ale (M Dineley & G Dineley)
Plant as the raw material for crafts (L Hurcombe)
Reconstructing archaeobotany (J Swogger)

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