The birth of neolithic Britain : an interpretive account

The birth of neolithic Britain : an interpretive account / Julian Thomas.

The beginning of the Neolithic in Britain is a topic of perennial interest in archaeology, marking the end of a hunter-gatherer way of life with the introduction of domesticated plants and animals, pottery, polished stone tools, and a range of new kinds of monuments, including earthen long barrows a...

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Main Author: Thomas, Julian (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Corby : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Prehistoric peoples > Great Britain.
Agriculture > Origin.
NATURE > Fossils.
Agriculture > Origin
Prehistoric peoples
Great Britain
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; The Birth of Neolithic Britain: An Interpretive Account; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; 1: Introduction: The Problem; 2: The Neolithization of Southern Europe; INTRODUCTION; GREECE AND THE SOUTHERN BALKANS; STARČEVO-KÖRÖS-CRIS; THE DANUBE GORGES; THE ADRIATIC AND ITALY; THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND IBERIA; CONCLUSION; 3: The Neolithization of Northern Europe; CENTRAL EUROPE: THE LINEARBANDKERAMIK; THE NORTH EUROPEAN PLAIN AND SOUTHERN SCANDINAVIA; THE LOW COUNTRIES; NORTH-WEST FRANCE: THE EMERGENCE OF MONUMENTAL BURIAL; CONCLUSION.
  • 4: The Neolithization of Europe: ThemesINTRODUCTION; CHANGING CONCEPTIONS OF EUROPEAN NEOLITHIZATION; RECENT PERSPECTIVES ON POPULATION MOVEMENT; SKILLS, PRACTICES, AND KNOWLEDGE; THE DIVERSITY OF EUROPEAN MESOLITHICS; THE 'NEOLITHIC FRONTIER'; CHANGING PATTERNS OF NEOLITHIC ECONOMIC PRACTICE; HOUSES AND 'HOUSE SOCIETIES'; CONCLUSION; 5: The Neolithic Transition in Britain: A Critical Historiography; INTRODUCTION; CULTURE HISTORY 1: VERE GORDON CHILDE; CULTURE HISTORY 2: STUART PIGGOTT AND JACQUETTA HAWKES; GRAHAME CLARK AND THE INVASION HYPOTHESIS; HUMPHREY CASE'S NEOLITHIC EXPLANATIONS.
  • ALASDAIR WHITTLE ON THE CONTINENTAL BACKGROUNDROBIN DENNELL'S 'INDIGENISM'; IAN KINNES AND THE 'CATTLESHIP POTEMKIN'; IAN HODDER: DOMESTICATING BRITAIN; JULIAN THOMAS: RE-HISTORICIZING THE TRANSITION; THREE TYPES OF REVISIONISM: 1, GABRIEL COONEY; THREE TYPES OF REVISIONISM: 2, ALISON SHERIDAN; THREE TYPES OF REVISIONISM: 3, PETER ROWLEY-CONWY; A NEW BEGINNING?; CONCLUSION; 6: Mesolithic Prelude?; INTRODUCTION; UNPACKING HUNTER-GATHERER 'COMPLEXITY'; MOBILE HUNTER-GATHERERS IN BRITAIN; HUNTER-GATHERER LANDSCAPES; DIET AND DIVERSITY; THE EMERGENCE OF PLACE.
  • SHELL MIDDENS AND THE SPIRIT OF PLACEMIDDENS, LANDSCAPE, AND SEASCAPE; LITHICS AND SOCIETY; CONCLUSION; 7: Times and Places; DATING THE MESOLITHIC-NEOLITHIC TRANSITION; ASSESSING THE DATING EVIDENCE; COMPOUND TEMPORALITY; PRIMARY NEOLITHIC PLACES; ASCOTT-UNDER-WYCHWOOD, OXFORDSHIRE; FIR TREE FIELD, DORSET; HAZLETON NORTH, GLOUCESTERSHIRE; CANNON HILL, BERKSHIRE; GWERNVALE, POWYS; BIGGAR COMMON, SOUTH LANARKSHIRE; EWEFORD WEST, EAST LOTHIAN; THE CONEYBURY 'ANOMALY', WILTSHIRE; THE SWEET TRACK, SOMERSET; BALFARG, FIFE; THE PICT'S KNOWE, DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY; DISCUSSION.
  • 8: Contact, Interaction, and SeafaringINTRODUCTION; ISSUES OF INSULARITY; THE MEANING OF SEA-CROSSING; TRACES OF INTERACTION; JADE AND JADEITITE AXES IN EUROPE; JADE AND JADEITITE AXES IN BRITAIN; 9: Architecture: Halls and Houses; BUILDING AND DWELLING; NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT AND OCCUPATION IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND; HOUSE SOCIETIES; THE MEANING OF THE HOUSE; HOUSES AND HALLS IN THE PRIMARY NEOLITHIC; POTS AND PLANT REMAINS: FINDS FROM HALLS; BRITISH HALLS AND THE CONTINENTAL NEOLITHIC; THE DEATH OF THE HOUSE; CONCLUSION; 10: Architecture: Timber Structures, Long Mounds, and Megaliths.

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