The Later Prehistory of North-West Europe : The Evidence of Development-Led Fieldwork.

Cover -- The Later Prehistory of North-West Europe: The Evidence of Development-Led Fieldwork -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Setting the Scene -- AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF EUROPE? -- THE CHANGING SCALE OF EUROPE ANARCHAEOLOGY -- THE QUESTION OF SCALE IN BRITISH AND IRISH ARCHAEOLOGY -- THE IMPACT OF DEVELOPMENT-LED ARCHAEOLOGY -- INTRODUCING THE PROJECT -- THE DATASET -- CONTEMPORARY ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRACTICE IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD -- Development Pressures -- The Organization of Development-Led Archaeology -- Funding -- Fieldwork and Post-Excavation Practice -- CONCLUSION -- 2: Late Foragers and First Farmers (8000-3700 BC) -- MESOLITHIC STUDIES AND NEOLITHIC STUDIES -- THE LAST FORAGERS -- Inland Areas -- On the Coast -- Integration -- THE INTRODUCTION OF FARMING: THE LINEARBANDKERAMIK CULTURE -- NEW CONFIGURATIONS IN GERMANY AND FRANCE (4900-3700 BC) -- The First Monumental Cemeteries in the Paris Basin -- The Development of Enclosures -- The Development of Flint Mines -- THE ADOPTION OF AGRICULTURE IN NORTH-WEST FRANCE -- THE ADOPTION OF AGRICULTURE IN NORTHERN GERMANY, THE LOW COUNTRIES, AND DENMARK -- THE ADOPTION OF AGRICULTURE IN THE BRITISH ISLES -- THE DIRECTION OF CHANGE -- 3: Regional Monumental Landscapes (3700-2500 BC) -- A SECOND GENERATION OF NEOLITHIC MONUMENTS -- THE HISTORIES OF FUNERARY MONUMENTS -- Long Mounds in Denmark and the British Isles -- Passage Graves in Ireland and Britain -- Passage Graves and Other Mortuary Monuments in Northern Europe -- Later Chambered Tombs in France -- Later Chambered Tombs in Western Germany and the Low Countries -- The Demise of Megalithic Tombs and the Development of New Burial Rites -- THE HISTORIES OF ENCLOSURES -- Causewayed Enclosures in Britain and Ireland.

Causewayed Enclosures in Northern Europe -- Causewayed Enclosures in France -- Stone Circles and Henge Monuments in the British Isles -- SETTLEMENTS -- Settlements and Great Houses in France and Belgium -- Settlements and Great Houses in the British Isles -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF LONG-DISTANCE NETWORKS -- OVERVIEW: THEMES WITH VARIATIONS -- ENTERING A NEW WORLD -- Corded Ware Settlements -- Corded Ware Burials -- 4: Barrow Landscapes Across the Channel (2500-1600 BC) -- INTRODUCTION: LIVES AND DEATHS -- THE BELL BEAKER PHASE -- Mobility -- Metallurgy -- Bell Beaker Settlements -- Monuments and the Past -- Bell Beaker Mortuary Practices -- Overview -- EARLY BRONZE AGE NETWORKS -- Mobility, Metallurgy, and Exchange -- Settlement Evidence -- Summary -- EARLY BRONZE AGE FUNERARY PRACTICES -- Round Barrows and Ring-Ditches -- Round Barrows and Flat Graves -- Flat Cemeteries -- Summary -- THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME -- 5: Changes in the Pattern of Settlement (1600-1100 BC) -- INTRODUCTION -- SETTLEMENT -- Settlement in the Low Countries and Northern Europe -- Settlement in Britain and Ireland -- Settlement in the Maritime Regions of Northern and Western France -- Settlement: An Overview -- TREATMENT OF THE DEAD -- Germany and Northern Europe -- The Low Countries and Neighbouring Areas -- Britain and Ireland -- North-Western and Western France -- The Dead: An Overview -- THE DEPOSITION OF METALWORK -- Summary -- A NEW ATTACHMENT TO PLACE -- 6: The Expansion of Settlement (1100-250 BC) -- INTRODUCTION -- SETTLEMENT -- HILLFORTS -- LINES ACROSS THE LANDSCAPE -- LIVING OFF THE LAND -- PRODUCTION AND EXCHANGE -- MIDDENS, FEASTING, AND CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION -- ARTEFACT DEPOSITION -- DEALINGS WITH THE DEAD -- Late Bronze Age Cemeteries -- Earlier Iron Age Cemeteries -- Social Distinctions in Funerary Rites -- Human Remains in Settlements.

Human Remains in Natural Places -- Death and Personhood -- MATERIAL CULTURE AND REGIONAL INTERACTIONS -- SOCIAL FORMS DURING THE EARLY TO MID-FIRST MILLENNIUM BC -- 7: Total Landscapes (250 BC to the Early Roman Period) -- INTRODUCTION -- HOUSEHOLDS AND RURAL SETTLEMENT -- Northern and North-Western France -- Western Germany and Southern Belgium -- The Longhouse Region of the North European Plain -- Britain and Ireland -- A More Ordered Landscape -- CENTRAL PLACES -- Summary -- OBJECTS AND CONNECTIONS -- RITUAL AND DEPOSITION -- TREATMENT OF THE DEAD -- Social and Regional Trends in Burial Practices -- Summary -- THE END OF PREHISTORY -- 8: The Research in Retrospect -- POTENTIALS AND LIMITATIONS -- IS THERE A PREHISTORY OF NORTH-WEST EUROPE? -- HOUSING THE LIVING AND THE DEAD -- DEMOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE -- THE PREHISTORY OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY -- APPENDIX: List of sites from the database cited in the text -- References -- Index.

The Later Prehistory of North-West Europe provides a unique, up-to-date, and easily accessible synthesis of the later prehistoric archaeology of north-west Europe, surveying changes in social forms, landscape organization, monument types, and ritual practices over six millennia.

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