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Marking Place Jonathan Last

Marking Place By Jonathan Last

Marking Place by Jonathan Last


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Neolithic Studies Group volume discussing the range of current work on causewayed enclosures and exploring the recent fieldwork, academic research and community projects.

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Marking Place: New Perspectives on Early Neolithic Enclosures by Jonathan Last

Much archaeological work is concerned with identifying gaps in our knowledge and developing strategies for addressing them; we perhaps spend less time thinking about how research should proceed when we already know, relatively speaking, quite a lot. The programme of dating causewayed enclosures in southern Britain that was published in 2011 as Gathering Time (Oxbow Books) gave us a new, more precise chronology for many individual sites as well as for enclosures as a whole, and as a consequence a far better sense of their significance and place in the story of the British Early Neolithic. Arguably, causewayed enclosures are now the best understood type of Neolithic monument. Yet work continues, and in the last few years new discoveries have been made, older excavations published and further work undertaken on well-known sites. Viewing this research within the new framework for these monuments allows us to assess where our understanding of enclosures has got to and where the focus of future research should lie. This volume originates from a Neolithic Studies Group meeting held in November 2019, which aimed firstly to showcase and explore the wide range of current work on causewayed enclosures and related sites, and secondly to assess what we still want to know about these sites in light of the monumental achievement of Gathering Time. The papers collected here comprise reports on recent development-led fieldwork, academic research and community projects, and the volume concludes with a reflection by the authors of Gathering Time.

About Jonathan Last

Jonathan Last has worked in various roles for Historic England (formerly English Heritage) since 2001 and is currently Landscape Strategy Adviser in the Archaeological Investigation team. His research interests are principally focussed on prehistory, especially the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: marking place Jonathan Last 2. Interrogating the Third Dimension: enclosures and surface artefact distributions Joshua Pollard 3. Early Neolithic Tor Enclosures of South-Western England Simon R. Davies 4. Structural and Sequential Complexity in Causewayed Enclosures: implications from Dorstone Hill, Herefordshire Nick Overton, Keith Ray and Julian Thomas 5. A Demographic Perspective on Burial Practices at Early Neolithic Enclosures in South-East England Dawn Cansfield 6. The Freston Causewayed Enclosure, Suffolk: initial insight and hypothetical history Tristan Carter, Nathaniel Jackson, Rose Moir, Peter Allen, Helene Burningham, Daniel Contreras, Tim Schofield and Richard Tipping 7. Expanding the Neolithic of Hembury, East Devon F.M. Griffith and E.M. Wilkes 8. Come, Friendly Bones, Flint And Pots... Datchet's Fit for the Neolithic Now: recent work at Riding Court Farm, Datchet John Powell 9. Gathering Time for Harlow Robin Webb 10. Butts Brow: Coombe Hill's Counterpart? Initial excavations at an early Neolithic enclosure monument in Eastbourne Stephen Patton 11. Gathering Space Dave Durkin 12. Made In Hembury: an experimental reconstruction of the Hembury bowl Angie Wickenden 13. A Decade On: revised timings for causewayed enclosures in southern Britain Alasdair Whittle, Alex Bayliss and Frances Healy

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GOR012668525
9781789257090
1789257093
Marking Place: New Perspectives on Early Neolithic Enclosures by Jonathan Last
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxbow Books
20211210
240
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