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Neolithic Stepping Stones : Excavation and Survey Within the Western Seaways of Britain, 2008-2014
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction to the Stepping Stones project -- 1.2. The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Britain, Ireland and north-west France -- 1.3. The 'western seaways...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Online-Ressource Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Havertown
: Oxbow Books, Limited
, 2017
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| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als:
Neolithic Stepping Stones : Excavation and Survey Within the Western Seaways of Britain, 2008-2014 |
| E-Book-Pakete: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction to the Stepping Stones project -- 1.2. The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Britain, Ireland and north-west France -- 1.3. The 'western seaways' -- 1.4. The changing palaeogeography of Britain and Ireland -- Channel Islands -- Isles of Scilly -- Outer Hebrides -- Summary -- 1.5. Early Neolithic settlement in Britain and Ireland -- 1.6. The Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age archaeology of the Channel Islands, Isles of Scilly and Outer Hebrides -- Channel Islands -- Isles of Scilly -- Outer Hebrides -- 1.7. Volume overview: key themes -- Chapter 2. L'Erée, Guernsey, Channel Islands -- 2.1. Introduction -- Geology and topography -- Previous work at the site -- Research objectives -- 2.2. Survey and excavation strategy -- Survey strategy -- Excavation strategy -- Excavation methodology -- 2.3. Results -- The soil sequence -- Artefact distributions within the stratifi ed deposits -- Archaeological features -- 2.4. Prehistoric pottery (by Anwen Cooper) -- 2.5. Chipped stone (by Anne Pirie & Donovan Hawley) -- 2.6. Worked stone (by Duncan Garrow & John Renouf) -- 2.7. Micromorphology (by Charles French) -- 2.8. Environmental analysis (by Julie Jones, Rob Scaife and Fraser Sturt) -- 2.9. Radiocarbon dating (by Duncan Garrow & Seren Griffiths) -- 2.10. Discussion: Mesolithic to Bronze Age occupation at L'Erée -- Chapter 3. Old Quay, St Martin's, Isles of Scilly -- 3.1. Introduction -- Geology, topography and environment -- Previous work at the site -- Research objectives -- 3.2. Excavation strategy and methodology -- 3.3. Results -- The soil sequence -- Artefact distributions -- Archaeological features -- 3.4. Prehistoric pottery (by Henrietta Quinnell with Roger Taylor). 3.5. Worked flint, chert and quartz (by Martin Tingle & Hugo Anderson-Whymark) -- 3.6. Worked stone (by Henrietta Quinnell with Roger Taylor) -- 3.7. Pumice (by Katharine Sawyer) -- 3.8. Environmental analysis (by Julie Jones, Ceren Kabukcu & Fraser Sturt) -- 3.9. Radiocarbon dating (by Duncan Garrow & Seren Griffiths) -- 3.10. Discussion: Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age and Romano-British occupation at Old Quay -- Chapter 4. An Doirlinn, South Uist, Outer Hebrides -- 4.1. Introduction -- Geology, topography and environment -- Previous work at the site -- Research objectives -- 4.2. Excavation strategy and methodology -- 4.3. Results -- Phase 1: Hebridean Neolithic -- Phase 2: Grooved Ware -- Phase 3: Beaker -- Phase 4: Modern -- 4.4. Prehistoric pottery (by Mike Copper) -- 4.5. Chipped stone (by Anne Pirie) -- 4.6. Worked and utilised stone (by Hugo Anderson-Whymark) -- 4.7. Pumice (by Elise Fraser) -- 4.8. Bone (by Duncan Garrow with Jaco Weinstock) -- 4.9. Environmental evidence (by Ceren Kabukcu, Julie Jones & Fraser Sturt) -- 4.10. Radiocarbon dating (by Duncan Garrow & Seren Griffiths) -- 4.11. Discussion: Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age occupation at An Doirlinn -- Chapter 5. Discussion: 'insular connectivity' across the western seaways -- 5.1. Introduction: 'islandness' - a context-specific concept -- 5.2. Differential traditions of research -- 5.3. Settlement variability -- 5.4. Material signatures of connectivity and 'islandness' -- 5.5. Summary: ebbs and flows, contrasts and contradictions, connections and separations -- Appendix 1. Chipped stone post-excavation analysis sampling strategies -- Bibliography. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (237 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781785703485 |
