Neolithic Britain is an up-to-date, concise introduction to the period of British prehistory from c. 4000-2200 BCE, covering key material and social developments, and reflecting on the nature of cultural practices, tradition, genealogy, and society across nearly two millennia.
Neolithic Britain is an up-to-date, concise introduction to the period of British prehistory from c. 4000-2200 BCE, covering key material and social developments, and reflecting on the nature of cultural practices, tradition, genealogy, and society across nearly two millennia.
Keith Ray is an Archaeological consultant and writer. He has been actively involved in field archaeology since 1970, when he worked with Dr Geoffrey Wainwright at the major later Neolithic henge site at Mount Pleasant, Dorchester, Dorset. He has been involved in fieldwork and research elsewhere in southern and western England and in Scotland, Wales, France, and Norway, as well as in West Africa. In 2007 he was awarded an MBE for services to archaeology in Herefordshire. He was a collaborator on the 'Gathering Time' Neolithic chronologies project, having co-organised the excavation of the early Neolithic enclosure at Hill Croft Field, Bodenham, in Herefordshire in 2006. His publications include The Archaeology of Herefordshire: An Exploration (Logaston Press, 2015) and Offa's Dyke: Landscape and Hegemony in Eighth-Century Britain (with Ian Bapty; Oxbow/Windgather, 2016). Julian Thomas is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Manchester. Early in his career, Julian worked on a number of key Neolithic sites, including the early Neolithic Hazleton North long barrow in the Cotswolds with Alan Saville, and the Hambledon Hill causewayed enclosure with Roger Mercer. He was appointed Professor of Archaeology at Manchester University in 2000. He was a co-director of the Stonehenge Riverside Project (2005-9), and is a Vice-President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He is the author of The Birth of Neolithic Britain An Interpretive Account (OUP, 2013).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Neolithic Britain--encounters and reflections 1: Writing Neolithic Britain: an interpretive journey 2: 4000 BCE: a cultural threshold 3: Narratives for the Fourth Millennium 4: Social Being and Cultural Practices 5: Narratives for the Third Millennium 6: Kinship, History, and Descent Conclusion: A Lived Neolithic
Introduction: Neolithic Britain--encounters and reflections 1: Writing Neolithic Britain: an interpretive journey 2: 4000 BCE: a cultural threshold 3: Narratives for the Fourth Millennium 4: Social Being and Cultural Practices 5: Narratives for the Third Millennium 6: Kinship, History, and Descent Conclusion: A Lived Neolithic
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