Understanding the NeolithicThis volume is an investigation of the Neolithic period in southern Britain. Whilst examining the archaeological data of this region, Thomas exposes the assumptions and prejudices which have shaped archaeologists' accounts of the distant past. |
Contents
Chapter | 7 |
Chapter Three | 34 |
Chapter Four | 62 |
Chapter Five | 89 |
Chapter | 126 |
and Dorchester on Thames Sites VI and II | 154 |
Chapter Seven | 163 |
Chapter Eight | 184 |
Chapter Nine | 199 |
Chapter | 221 |
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Abingdon animal bones argued artefacts assemblages Avebury henge Barrow Hills Beaker burials Beaker pottery body Bradley British Neolithic Bronze Age cairn Cambridge cattle causewayed enclosures ceramic chalk chambered tombs circle Cleal communities complex concentrated Coneybury construction contained context cremation cursus monuments dead decoration distinct Dorchester on Thames Durrington Walls earlier Neolithic entrance evidence excavations Figure flint funerary Grooved Ware groups Hambledon Hambledon Hill henge monuments Hodder indicate interpretation involved Kinnes landscape later Neolithic lithic locations long barrow long mounds material culture means mortuary practice Neolithic pottery north Wiltshire number of different particular pattern period Peterborough Ware phase Piggott pots Prehistoric Society radiocarbon dates recognised represented Richards ring ditch ritual round barrow sarsen sequence sherds significance Silbury skull Smith social southern Britain space spatial Stanton Harcourt stone Stonehenge structure style suggests symbolic timber timber circles traditions Upper Thames valley vessels Wessex Whittle Windmill Hill Woodhenge woodland