Prehistory
Prehistoric houses at Sumburgh in Shetland Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 138
ISBN: 9781842170038
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2000
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: drawings and pls
Description:
Excavations at Sumburgh Airport in the 1960s and 70s discovered stone-built houses of the later Bronze Age and the early Iron Age. This report describes the results of the excavations (stone walls, paved areas, hearths, cubicles) and of the analysis of the stratigraphy and the position of the artefacts. It shows how one house was added to the other, and how both were then substantially modified.
Dating and the Earliest Known Rock Art Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781900188654
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1999
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: with 18 b/w plates
Description:
While significant advances have been made in direct dating French and Spanish rock art, direct dates obtained by AMS for the New World are extremely scarce and existing stylistic hronologies cannot be trusted. These papers from the International Rock Art Congress held in Bolivia in 1997 focus in the dating problem. They also reflect discussion of the earliest art in the light of recent research and as seen from a world palaeo-art perspective.
Experiment and Design Cover
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781900188760
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1999
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
These essays, in honour of John Coles, reflect his interests in experimental archaeology and in the exploration of wetland sites. Contents include: Palaeolithic Archaeology: Radiocarbon dating and the origins of anatomically modern populations in Europe ( P Mellars ); The Chauvet cave dates ( J Clottes ); The archaeology of Scotland: The Hidden landscape: the Neolithic of Tayside ( G J Barclay ); The stony limits - rock carvings in passage graves and in the open air ( R Bradley ); Evidence, North and South, in the earlier Neolithic ( R J Mercer ); The birth of the Scottish Bronze Age ( J N Graham Ritchie ); Drinking, driving, death and display: Scottish Bronze Age artefacts since Coles ( A Sheridan ). Bronze Age archaeology: Bronze Age landscapess in Southern Europe ( G Barker ); From Skåne to Scotstown: some notes on amber in Bronze Age Ireland ( G Eogan ); Swords, shields and scholars: Bronze Age warfare, past and present ( A Harding ); Gold reflections ( J J Taylor ); Rise and fall: the deposition of Bronze Age weapons in the Thames valley and the Fenland ( R Thomas ); Bronze Age settlement in south Scandinavia - territorality and organisation ( H Thrane ); Experimental Archaeology: Getting to grips with music's prehistory: experimental approaches to function, design and operational wear in excavated musical instruments ( G Lawson ); Experimental ship archaeology in Denmark ( O Crumli-Pedersen ); Wood-tar and pitch experiments at Biskupin Museum ( W Piotrowski ); The nature of experiment in archaeology ( P J Reynolds ).
Late prehistoric exploitation of the Eurasian steppe Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781902937038
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1999
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Illustrations: b/w illus, tbs
Description:
The nomadic peoples of the great grasslands of the former USSR have left little in the way of settlement evidence, and archaeologists studying their history have had to rely on environmental remains to reconstruct their pasts. This book contains three major studies: The origins of horse husbandry on the Eurasian Steppe (M Levine) ; The eneolithic of the Black Sea Steppe: The dynamics of cultural and economic development 4500-2300 BC (Y Rassamakin) , and The Eastern Ural steppe at the end of the Stone Age (A Kislenko and N Tatarintseva) . Each presents evidence that has not previously been available to European prehistorians.
RRP: £40.00
Reconstructing Past Population Trends in Mediterranean Europe (3000BC-AD1800) Cover Reconstructing Past Population Trends in Mediterranean Europe (3000BC-AD1800) Cover
Format: 
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781900188623
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1999
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes
Illustrations: with illus
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9781785704703
Pub Date: 15 Oct 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes
Description:
Archaeology of Populus Monograph in Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes Series. Population trends and demographics in general are discussed through a variety of case studies based in Mediterranean Europe. The range of archaeological techniques and methods of analysis includes reginal field surveys, artefact scatter analysis, palaeoanthropology, historical and documentary sources, and studies of cemeteries.
EAA 82: Archaeology and the Landscape in the Lower Blackwater Valley, Essex Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 246
ISBN: 9781852811600
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1998
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 12 pls, 136 figs, 42 tbs
Description:
A report on the excavation of three sites which revealed evidence of change in landscape use. An extensive series was found to run along much of the North side of the Blackwater estuary. Discoveries include Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Saxon remains at Slough House, Chigborough and Howell's Farms.
Klithi Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 734
ISBN: 9780951942024
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1998
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Illustrations: 2 Volume Set
Description:
The Epirus region of north-west Greece has witnessed more dramatic changes of physical landscape than almost any other part of Europe. Tectonic activity has shaped a complex and dynamic topography, supplemented by the impact of a local ice sheet formed during the Glacial Maximum, and dramatic episodes of erosion triggered by changes of climate, vegetation and land use. These two volumes set out the history of Palaeolithic occupation over the past 100,000 years, bringing together the full range of studies carried out between 1981 and 1983 as part of the Klithi project.
RRP: £70.00
EAA 80: Arton Bendish and Caldecote Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780905594217
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1997
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 11 b/w pls, 34 b/w figs, 10 tables
Description:
This volume offers three papers detailing the results of projects in south-west Norfolk: firstly an extensive one-man fieldwalking survey of Barton Bendish parish; secondly, an area excavation within Barton Bendish; thirdly, a very detailed one-man fieldwalking survey of 6.5 hectares in one field. The surveys provided a diverse range and quality of surface scatter evidence, which in conjunction with historical sources, provide a sound basis for the understanding of human settlement and land use patterns in Barton Bendish feom the Iron Age to the seventeenth century.
A Celtic Florilegium7 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 226
ISBN: 9780964244634
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1997
Imprint: Celtic Studies Publications
Series: Celtic Studies Publications
Description:
Nineteen papers on early medieval Irish and Welsh texts. Contents include: St Patrick in Cornwall? The origin and transmission of Vita Tertia S.
Colloquia Pontica 3 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 356
ISBN: 9781900188333
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1997
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: numerous illustrations
Description:
Landscape archaeology, a recent theoretical discovery in the west, has long been practised by eastern european scholars. This stimulating collection of papers ranges over the whole of central and eastern Europe and from the Neolithic to the early Medieval periods.
Rock Art Studies Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 229
ISBN: 9781900188210
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1997
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: with numerous figures
Description:
Essays on recent developments and recent discoveries in Rock Art research around the world, based on the proceedings of the 1995 Rock Art conference held in Italy. This is the third in the five-yearly surveys of what is happening in rock art studies around the world, which builds upon the exciting contributions made in the first two volumes of this series. As always, the texts reflect something of the great differences in approach and emphasis that exist in different regions.
EAA 77: Barrow Excavations in Norfolk, 1984-8 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 94
ISBN: 9780905594194
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1996
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 30 b&w plates
Description:
^Aby J J Wymer ^DA number of sites excavated in advance of mineral extraction during the 1980s are described in this report. The Early Bronze Age round barrow with an outer bank and ditch at Bawsey, near King's Lynn, contained traces of a tree-trunk bier but no evidence of the body, plus a satellite burial and seven secondary cremations, one of which was buried beneath a complete, inverted collared urn. A mound and a possible ring-ditch in the parishes of Longham and Beeston with Bittering were found to be of periglacial origin, but the range and quantity of prehistoric material recovered indicates settlement from the Neolithic to the Iron Age in an area where little has been recorded before.
EAA 78: The Fenland Project, No. 11 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 194
ISBN: 9780905594200
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1996
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 113 figs, 12 plates, 14 fiche
Description:
^Aby Frances Healy ^DThe latest volume of the series on the archaeology of East Anglia attempts to document and synthesise the mass of evidence for pre-Iron Age activity between the rivers Wissey and Little Ouse. The sites are thoroughly surveyed and the finds examined, including four human skeletons which have been radio-carbon dated to the Early Bronze Age. Substantial Early or Middle Neolithic settlement is indicated, with significant Beaker and Early Bronze Age settlement after it.
On the Track of a Prehistoric Economy Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 315
ISBN: 9788772884394
Pub Date: 31 Jan 1996
Illustrations: b/w illlus
Description:
Basing this study of South Scandinavia's Maglemosian economy on a selection of the faunal assemblages of the period, this book uses spatial analysis and multivariate correspondence analysis to draw together theories on human movements of the time.
EAA 73: The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Spong Hill, Part 7 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9780905594163
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1995
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: with illus, 4 fiche and site-plan
Description:
Sparse Iron Age occupation was followed by extensive rural occupation, building up over three phases in the Roman period to a large 2nd-4th AD farmstead. In the late 4th century AD this was abandoned for no archaeologically discernible reason to lay the ground for the famous Anglo-Saxon cemetery. Ecofactual evidence for crop-processing (including flax) and artefactual evidence for many craft activities are presented.
EAA 75: North Shoebury Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9781852811303
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1995
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 25 pl 122figs, fiche
Description:
The North Shoebury Project was mounted in response to the accumulating evidence for settlement in the Southend Peninsula during virtually all periods from the prehistoric to the present day, especially widespread and possibly continuous from the Neolithic. The site itself lay on a brickearth covered gravel terrace, whose calcareous nature resulted in the preservation of bone and shell. This excavation report includes discussion of the evidence for occupation in each period, and a gazetteer of antiquities of the region.