The distinctive languages, art, and mythologies of the ancient Celts give archaeologists with an enduring quest in Northern Europe. The Celts rarely used their written language, passing along beliefs,
Campbell presents a cumulative list of pottery and glass imports into Britain and Ireland during the transition from the late Roman/late Iron Age period to the emerging kingdoms of the Middle Ages. Fo
Round barrows are the most common form of prehistoric monuments in Britain with over 30,000 sites known, and have been subject to over 200 years of research and excavation. Last (English Heritage) mai
The processes involved in the transformation of society from Mesolithic hunter-gatherers to Neolithic farmers were complex. They involved changes not only in subsistence but also in how people thought
"This volume comprises essays first presented in the symposium Upper Paleolithic 'Transitional' Industries: New Questions, New Methods on March 21, 2002, at the 67th annual meetings of the Society for
Collaboration by the universities of Sheffield and Kalmar and Stockholm in Sweden led to two conferences being held. The second, held at Sheffield in 2006, sought collaboration and the sharing of info
The study investigates why the scientific construction of knowledge about the prehistoric inhabitants of Lancastria has focused so much on individual artefacts and single sites removed from their land
Moravia played a very important role in the Palaeolithic migration of ancient Homo sapiens as it made a natural corridor between the south and the north of the central Europe, which allowed for shifti
This volume reports on excavations conducted in advance of the construction of a campus of Cornwall University. In addition to the expected linear field systems and Romano-British settlement activity,
We are now familiar with the Three Age System, the archaeological partitioning of the past into Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. This division, which amounted at the time to a major scientific rev
This book represents an innovative experiment in presenting the results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project. The well-known authors and their team examined the Neolithic and Bro
Shell deposits, or middens, abound along the shores of Europe, but researchers tend to be isolated and relatively few have been excavated. Taken from a September 2005 workshop at the U. of York that d
Five summers of fieldwork at Leskernick, a small hill in Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, involved excavation of course, but also sociological projects, art projects, an exhibition, a website, and this volume e
We take for granted the survival into the present of artifacts from the past. Indeed the discipline of archaeology would be impossible without the survival of such artifacts. What is the implication of the durability or ephemerality of past material culture for the reproduction of societies in the past? In this book, Andrew Jones argues that the material world offers a vital framework for the formation of collective memory. He uses the topic of memory to critique the treatment of artifacts as symbols by interpretative archaeologists and artifacts as units of information (or memes) by behavioral archaeologists, instead arguing for a treatment of artifacts as forms of mnemonic trace that have an impact on the senses. Using detailed case studies from prehistoric Europe, he further argues that archaeologists can study the relationship between mnemonic traces in the form of networks of reference in artifactual and architectural forms.
Participants in the extensive project, undertaken in advance of redevelopment, explain their findings in the southwest quadrant of the Roman and medieval town of Bath. Their coverage also extends back
Anthropologists Johnston (George Washington U.) and Wailes (emeritus, U. of Pennsylvania), along with other workers on the project, present the full description of their work to date on the Iron Age r
What happened to Roman soldiers in Britain during the decline of the empire in the 4th and 5th centuries? Did they withdraw, defect, or go native? More than a question of military history, this is the
From the Oxford Archaeological Unit as number 27 of the Thames Valley Landscapes Monographs, this report provides an overview of the archaeological evidence from the late Iron Age, Roman, and Anglo-Sa
Taking as its central theme the issue of whether early Hominins organized themselves into societies as we understand them, John McNabb looks at how modern researchers recognize such archaeological cul
