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Prehistoric Britain

The Neolithic of the Irish Sea: Materiality and traditions of practice
edited by Vicki Cummings and Chris Fowler
This collection of 24 papers from the Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Series aims to reconsider the nature and significance of the Irish Sea as an area of cultural interaction during the Neolithic period. The traditional character of work across this region has emphasised the existence of prehistoric contact, with sea routes criss-crossing between Ireland, the Isle of Man, Anglesey and the British mainland. A parallel course of investigation, ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £45.00, Our Price GB £15.00

Gathering Time: Dating the Early Neolithic Enclosures of Southern Britain and Ireland
by Alasdair Whittle, Frances Healy and Alex Bayliss
Gathering Time presents the results of a major dating programme that re-writes the early Neolithic of Britain by more accurately dating enclosures, a phenomenon that first appeared in the early Neolithic: places of construction, labour, assembly, ritual and deposition. The project has combined hundreds of new radiocarbon dates with hundreds of existing dates, using a Bayesian statistical framework. Such formal chronological modelling is ...
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Carving a Future for British Rock Art: New Directions for Research, Management and Presentation
edited by Tertia Barnett and Kate Sharpe
Over the last few years, the ways in which we perceive and document rock art have shifted irreversibly. Prehistoric rock art played little part in the development of British and Irish archaeology and was not recognised until the 19th century, when its equivalents in Scandinavia and the Iberian Peninsula were already well known. Previously considered a fringe activity and the work of amateur archaeologists, over the last 30 years the situation has ...
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An Animate Landscape: Rock Art and the Prehistory of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland
by Andrew Meirion Jones, Davina Freedman, Blaze O'Connor, Hugo Lamdin-Whymark, Richard Tipping and Aaron Watson
The Kilmartin landscape in western Scotland is widely regarded as Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape. It contains a number of barrow cemeteries, stone alignments, stone circles and a henge. With over 250 individual rock art sites, it also has the greatest concentration of prehistoric rock art in the British Isles and some of the most impressive rock art sites. An Animate Landscape contains the results of a major research project that ...
Paperback. Price GB £35.00

Fear of Farming
by Caroline Wickham-Jones
The environmental crisis is one of the most pressing concerns to face the population of the world today. The debate centres on the way in which our current problems are of recent making and how we might fix them. But in reality the issue is far more fundamental and stretches back further in time than many of us might think. This book traces the origins of our present situation to the changes that came about with the introduction of farming to ...
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Managing Archaeological Landscapes in Northumberland: Till Tweed Studies Volume 1
by David G. Passmore and Clive Waddington
The Till-Tweed river catchment areas in Northumberland contain outstanding archaeological and palaeoenvironmental remains which have been in general only poorly understood. This study has assembled detailed data that will provide a platform for future landscape-based research and site-based investigation. Written from a landscape, or geoarchaeological perspective, this study develops a methodology and management tool that will allow planners, ...
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The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent
edited by Colin Haselgrove and Rachel Pope
The Earlier Iron Age (c. 800-400 BC) has often eluded attention in British Iron Age studies. Traditionally, we have been enticed by the wealth of material from the later part of the millennium and by developments in southern England in particular, culminating in the arrival of the Romans. The result has been a chronological and geographical imbalance, with the Earlier Iron Age often characterised more by what it lacks than what it comprises: for ...
Hardback. Price GB £75.00

Mesolithic Settlement in the North Sea Basin: A Case Study from Howick, North-East England
edited by Clive Waddington
The archaeological remains at Howick consist of a Mesolithic hut site and an Early Bronze Age cist cemetery located on a modern cliff edge overlooking a small estuary. This volume is devoted solely to the reporting and interpretation of the Mesolithic remains. Three huts had been constructed on the Howick site, all on the same footprint, with no evidence to indicate a gap between these occupations, and the remains inside the hut were all ...
Hardback. Price GB £20.00

Neolithic Settlement in Ireland and Western Britain
edited by Ian Armit, Eileen Murphy, Eiméar Nelis and Derek Simpson
The past few years have seen an upsurge in the numbers of known Neolithic settlements in Ireland. Many of these sites have been excavated by archaeologists based in field units, but few are well-known to the wider archaeological community. The papers in this volume which were presented at a conference held at Queen's University, Belfast in 2001, provided a forum for a discussion of the new Neolithic material from Ireland in its wider geographical ...
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Defining a Regional Neolithic: Evidence from Britain and Ireland
edited by Kenneth Brophy and Gordon Barclay
This book is the ninth published collection of papers from a Neolithic Studies Group day conference, and it continues the Group's aim of presenting research on the Neolithic of all parts of the British Isles. The topic - regional diversity - is an important theme in Neolithic studies today, and embraces traditions of monumentality, settlement patterns and material culture. The contributors to this volume address issues of regionality through a ...
Paperback. Price GB £28.00