List of Figures and Tables
Contributors
Abstract
French Language Abstract
German Language Abstract
Acknowledgements
Notes about radiocarbon dates and the use of the term ‘east Yorkshire’
1. Introduction
By Mike Parker Pearson, Mandy Jay and Alison Sheridan
2. Radiocarbon dates and their Bayesian modelling
By Mandy Jay, Michael P. Richards and Peter Marshall
3. Economy and society in Beaker-period Britain
By Mike Parker Pearson
4. The Beaker People Project individuals, their funerary practices and their grave goods
By Mike Parker Pearson, Stuart Needham and Alison Sheridan with Alex Gibson
5. Beakers and bodies in north-east Scotland: a regional and contextual study
By Neil Curtis and Neil Wilkin, with Margaret Hutchison
6. Aspects of human osteology and skeletal biology
By Chris A. Deter, Patrick Mahoney, Sarah E. Johns and Sandra Thomas
7. Dental microwear: 2D and 3D approaches
By Patrick Mahoney, Laura Chiu, Pia Nystrom, Chris A. Deter and Christopher W. Schmidt
8. Carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis
By Mandy Jay and Michael P. Richards
9. Sulphur isotopic analysis
By Mandy Jay, Olaf Nehlich and Michael P. Richards
10. Strontium isotopic analysis
By Janet Montgomery, Jane Evans and Jacqueline Towers
11. Oxygen isotopic analysis
By Maura Pellegrini, Mandy Jay and Michael P. Richards
12. Synthesis, discussion and conclusions
By Mike Parker Pearson, Mandy Jay, Janet Montgomery, Alison Sheridan and Stuart Needham
Bibliography
Appendices
Appendix 1. The pre-2500 BC individuals
By Mandy Jay, Janet Montg omery, Mike Parker Pearson and Alison Sheridan
Appendix 2. The post-1500 BC individuals
By Mandy Jay, Janet Montg omery, Mike Parker Pearson and Alison Sheridan
Appendix 3. Details of findspot location, current location of the human remains and bibliographic
references for the skeletal material studied by the Beaker People Project
By Mandy Jay and Alison Sheridan
Appendix 4. Location group, period, incidence of association with Beaker or Food Vessel and sex
and age identifications
By Mandy Jay and Alison Sheridan
Appendix 5. Analytical and dating work undertaken for the Beaker People Project and the Beakers and
Bodies Project (plus other data used by these projects)
By Mandy Jay and Alison Sheridan
Appendix 6. Part 1. Details of the individuals studied in the Beakers and Bodies Project: findspot,
identifier, NGR, find date, associations and radiocarbon dates
Part 2. Osteological information and data on orientation and disposition in the grave
of individuals studied in the Beakers and Bodies Project
Both By Margaret Hutchison
Index
"[…]page numbers do not convey the scale of the work that went into it […] the data assembled here will be invaluable as the challenge continues"
Mike Pitts
British Archaeology
(10/02/2020)
"...this book is a highly valuable contribution to archaeological science. It presents material culture studies side-by-side with natural scientific studies for a successful integration of both domains to create an understanding of the big picture. The richness of the details and the background information provided is impressive."
Ralf Gleser
Archaeologische Informationen
(06/09/2021)
"[T]he books makes a transformative contribution to our understanding of Beaker people in Britain"
Richard Madgwick
Archaeological Journal
(09/12/2022)
"Was it worth waiting? Yes. Are the results significant? Yes. Is the book worth acquiring? Yes."
Marc Vander Linden
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
(01/08/2019)
"This 600-page edited volume...continues the tradition for weudite, well- and sensibly illustrated tomes, and it sells it short to say this is 'yet another' important book...This consummate volume […] provides the full 'Beaker Experience' that must guide/control the answer to that question: Who thought a few old bones could say so much?"
Rob Ixer
Current Archaeology
(01/08/2019)