Plants in Neolithic Britain and Beyond

Plant-centred issues are fundamental in the definitions and explanations of the Neolithic as a phenomenon.The meeting of the Neolithic Studies Group from which this volume developed aimed to provide a forum for the wide range of approaches now applied to Neolithic archaeobotany at site and landscape scales of resolution.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Contents
• Preface and acknowledgements
• List of contributors
• Chapter 1: Bringing plants into the taskscape
• Chapter 2: High resolution mapping of Neolithic and Bronze Age chalkland landscapes and landuse: The combination of multiple palaeoenvironmental analyses and topgraphic modelling
• Chapter 3: Coleopteran evidence for the Elm Decline, Neolithic activity in woodland, clearance and the use of the landscape
• Chapter 4: Plants by proxy: Plant resources on a Neolithic crannog as indicated by insect remains
• Chapter 5: Floodplain vegetation history: Clearings as potential ritual spaces?
• Chapter 6: The emperor’s new garden: Woodland, trees, and people in the Neolithic of southern Britain
• Chapter 7: Evaluating the importance of cultivation and collecting in Neolithic Britain
• Chapter 8: Further considerations of Neolithic charred cereals, fruit and nuts
• Chapter 9: Revising the wheat crops of Neolithic Britain
• Chapter 10: The Neolithization of the Netherlands: Two ways, one result
• Chapter 11: On the spread of plant crops across Neolithic Britain, with special reference to southern England
• Chapter 12: Human consumption of plant foods in the British Neolithic: Direct evidence from bone stable isotopes
• Chapter 13: Neolithic ale: Barley as a source of malt sugars for fermentation
• Chapter 14: Plants as the raw materials for crafts
• Chapter 15: The altering eye: Reconstructing archaeobotany
• Bibliography