Prehistoric Flintwork

Author: Chris Butler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Flint was vital for prehistoric societies, from the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers down to Bronze Age farmers. Chris Butler describes how the different diagnostic flint implements were used in each period and how they were produced. The author further explores what the analysis of flintwork can tell us about early man's use of the landscape, such as how and where flint was obtained; settlement, manufacturing, and ritual sites; and the eventual decline in the importance of flint. The book is the fruit of 20 years' research into flint assemblages.

Flint Daggers in Prehistoric Europe

Author: Catherine J. Frieman
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785700197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365

Book Description
For more than a century flint daggers have been among the most closely studied and most heavily published later prehistoric lithic tools. It is well established that they are found across Europe and beyond, and that many were widely circulated over many generations. Yet, few researchers have attempted to discuss the entirety of the flint dagger phenomenon. The present volume brings together papers that address questions of the regional variability and socio-technical complexity of flint daggers and their production. It focuses on the typology, chronology, technology, functionality and meaning of flint and other lithic daggers produced primarily in Europe, but also in the Eastern Mediterranean and East Asia, in prehistory. The 14 papers by leading researchers provide a comprehensive overview of the state of knowledge concerning various flint dagger corpora as well as potential avenues for the development of a research agenda across national, regional and disciplinary boundaries. The volume originates from a session held at the 2011 meeting of the European Association of Archaeology but includes additional commissioned contributions.

Prehistoric Sussex

Author: Alex Vincent
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398112267
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 127

Book Description
A fascinating exploration of prehistoric Sussex from the Palaeolithic era to the Iron Age and the Roman invasion.

Prehistoric Gloucestershire

Author: Timothy Darvill
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445619946
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 507

Book Description
This book charts the story of Gloucestershire's landscape and its inhabitants over a period spanning more than half a million years.

Excavation of Later Prehistoric and Roman Sites along the Route of the Newquay Strategic Road Corridor, Cornwall

Author: Andy M. Jones
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789691532
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
This volume presents the results of archaeological investigations on the Newquay Strategic Road and goes on to discuss the complexity of the archaeology, review the evidence for ‘special’ deposits and explore evidence for the deliberate closure of buildings especially in later prehistoric and Roman period Cornwall.

Prehistoric Britain

Author: Timothy Darvill
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113474658X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 665

Book Description
Tim Darvill examins the development of human societies in Britain from the earliest times down to the Roman Conquest, as revealed by available archaeological evidence. Special attention is given to six themes which are traced through all phases of prehistory: subsistence, technology, ritual, trade, society and population. Ideal for extramural course use, Prehistoric Britain is a book that can be read for pleasure by anyone interested in the early history of the British Isles.

Evolution of a Community: The Colonisation of a Clay Inland Landscape

Author: Samantha Paul
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784910872
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Chronologically documents the colonisation of a clay inland location north-west of Cambridge at the village of Longstanton and outlines how it was not an area on the periphery of activity, but part of a fully occupied landscape extending back into the Mesolithic period.

Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe

Author: Anne Teather
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789251516
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
The social processes involved in acquiring flint and stone in the Neolithic began to be considered over thirty years ago, promoting a more dynamic view of past extraction processes. Whether by quarrying, mining or surface retrieval, the geographic source locations of raw materials and their resultant archaeological sites have been approached from different methodological and theoretical perspectives. In recent years this has included the exploration of previously undiscovered sites, refined radiocarbon dating, comparative ethnographic analysis and novel analytical approaches to stone tool manufacture and provenancing. The aim of this volume in the Neolithic Studies Group Papers is to explore these new findings on extraction sites and their products. How did the acquisition of raw materials fit into other aspects of Neolithic life and social networks? How did these activities merge in creating material items that underpinned cosmology, status and identity? What are the geographic similarities, constraints and variables between the various raw materials, and how does the practise of stone extraction in the UK relate to wider extractive traditions in northwestern Europe? Eight papers address these questions and act as a useful overview of the current state of research on the topic.

A Vanishing Landscape: Archaeological Investigations at Blakeney Eye, Norfolk

Author: Naomi Field
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789698413
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
This volume presents a report on the archaeological excavation of a small building on the Norfolk coast, locally known as 'Blakeney Chapel', in advance of expected coastal erosion at Blakeney Eye. The investigations produced evidence for multi-period occupation, with abandonments driven by the ever-changing climate.

Waterlands: Prehistoric Life at Bar Pasture, Pode Hole Quarry, Peterborough

Author: Andy Richmond
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803271531
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
Presenting the results of a decade-long archaeological investigation at Bar Pasture Farm, Pode Hole Quarry, Peterborough, this book represents one of the most significant landscape excavations carried out in recent years. The 55-hectare site was the scene of human activity on the fenland edge from the Mesolithic through to the Late Iron Age.