Neolithic Landscapes  
Author(s): Peter Topping
Published by Oxbow Books
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ISBN: 9781785701542
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Reprint of another classic Neolithic Studies Group volume. 'It is a sign of the intellectual health of a specialist study group that its deliberations can generate collections of papers of general interest. The topical issue of landscape is addressed, although with the added complication of attempting to focus on the domestic as opposed to ceremonial aspects of Neolithic life'.
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Reprint of another classic Neolithic Studies Group volume. 'It is a sign of the intellectual health of a specialist study group that its deliberations can generate collections of papers of general interest. The topical issue of landscape is addressed, although with the added complication of attempting to focus on the domestic as opposed to ceremonial aspects of Neolithic life'.
Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • List of contributors
  • 1 Neolithic Landscapes: Identity and definition (Timothy Darvill)
  • 2 Moving on and moving around: Neolithic settlement mobility (Alasdair Whittle)
  • 3 Images of settlement and the landscape in the Neolithic (Gabriel Cooney)
  • 4 The infernal cycle of fire ecology (Jenny Moore)
  • 5 The social construction of the Neolithic landscape of the Channel Islands (Mark Patton)
  • 6 The landscape of extraction: aspects of the procurement of raw material in the Neolithic (David Field)
  • 7 NEO-“Realism?”: An alternative look at the Neolithic chalkland database of Sussex (Miles Russell)
  • 8 Landscape, the Neolithic, and Kent (Marfyn Barber)
  • 9 A landscape of two halves: The Neolithic of the Chelmer Valley / Blackwater Estuary, Essex (Nigel Brown)
  • 10 Neolithic settlement at Yarnton, Oxfordshire (Gill Hey)
  • 11 Different Realities: the Neolithic in the Northumberland Cheviots (Peter Topping)
  • 12 Domestic settlement and the landscape during the Neolithic of the Tavoliere, S.E. Italy (Keri Brown)
  • 13 The origins of tells in Eastern Hungary (John Chapman)
  • Bibliography
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