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New Light on the Neolithic of Northern England

Hey Gill Frodsham Paul
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781789252668
Publisert
2020-11-15
Utgiver
Oxbow Books
Høyde
280 mm
Bredde
216 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Redaktør
Hey Gill
Frodsham Paul

Biografisk notat

Gill Hey is CEO of Oxford Archaeology with research interests in Neolithic Britain. Paul Frodsham is recently retired as archaeologist for the Northumberland National Park.

New Light on the Neolithic of Northern England

Hey Gill Frodsham Paul
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
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The authors, editors and contributors are to be congratulated and commended on bringing these excellent volumes to publication.

Antiquity

This fine volume … [is] a fine counterbalance to the biases at the very core of the historical narrative of the Neolithic in Britain.

Archaeological Journal

Until recently, archaeologists took a broad-brush, sometimes ignoring local and regional nuances, so it is refreshing that Hey, Frodsham, and their team look at the Neolithic in terms of a northern tradition … The editors have skilfully integrated the academic, commercial and community sectors to provide a multi-interpretive approach to this dynamic period … This book is a much-needed addition to the Neolithic bookshelf and will be a useful reference for ongoing and future research.

Current Archaeology

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This book, like the 2016 conference in Carlisle from which it derives, is an explicit bid to sing the glories of stone axe quarries, rock art, stone circles and other landscape features which proclaim the intense regionality of Britain’s earliest farming communities.

British Archaeology

These papers highlight recent archaeological work in Northern England, in the commercial, academic and community archaeology sectors, which have fundamentally changed our perspective on the Neolithic of the area. Much of this was new work (and much is still not published) and has been overlooked in the national discourse. The papers cover a wide geographical area, from Lancashire north into the Scottish Lowlands, recognising the irrelevance of the England/Scotland Border. They also take a broad chronological sweep, from the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition to the introduction of Beakers into the area.   The key themes are: the nature of transition; the need for a much-improved chronological framework; regional variation linked to landscape character; links within northern England and with distant places; the implications of new dating for our understanding of the axe trade; the changing nature of settlement and agriculture; the character of early Neolithic enclosures; and the need to integrate rock art into wider discourse.
Les mer
A review of the latest research into the Neolithic settlement of northern England/southern Scotland.
List of contributors List of figures List of tables and appendices   Introduction Gill Hey and Paul Frodsham   Acknowledgements   Chapter 1: Langdale and the Northern Neolithic Richard Bradley and Aaron Watson   Chapter 2: Stainton West: a Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Site on the Banks of the River Eden Fraser Brown   Chapter 3: The last hunter of a wise race: evidence for Neolithic practices in northern England Seren Griffiths   Chapter 4: ‘Weird and atypical, even degenerate’… or then again, maybe not? Early Neolithic Enclosures in the North Al Oswald and Mark Edmonds   Chapter 5: Documenting English Rock Art: a review of the ‘big picture’ Kate E. Sharpe   Chapter 6: New Light on the Neolithic: a perspective from North-East England Clive Waddington   Chapter 7: Street House in the Neolithic Period, Stephen J. Sherlock   Chapter 8: Recent work on the Neolithic landscapes of Cumbria and North Lancashire Helen Evans, Antony Dickson and Denise Druce   Chapter 9: Out of the Shadows: an emerging Neolithic in the Yorkshire Dales   Yvonne Luke   Chapter 10: ‘A most noble work', at the Heart of Neolithic Britain.  Some Thoughts on the Long Meg Complex in the Light of Recent Fieldwork Paul Frodsham   Chapter 11: A View from North of the Border Alison Sheridan   Chapter 12:  Monumentality in Neolithic Britain: The Case of South West Scotland Julian Thomas   Chapter 13: A New Survey of The Carles Stone Circle, Castlerigg, Cumbria Al Oswald and Constance Durgeat   Chapter 14: Two Newly-Identified Possible ‘Hengiform’ Monuments in the North Pennines Stewart Ainsworth, David McOmish, Al Oswald and Andrew Payne   Chapter 15: The End of the Neolithic?: Early Bell Beaker Groups in Northern England A. P. Fitzpatrick
Les mer
First major publication in 20 years to focus on the Neolithic across northern England and southern Scotland

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The authors, editors and contributors are to be congratulated and commended on bringing these excellent volumes to publication.

Antiquity

This fine volume … [is] a fine counterbalance to the biases at the very core of the historical narrative of the Neolithic in Britain.

Archaeological Journal

Until recently, archaeologists took a broad-brush, sometimes ignoring local and regional nuances, so it is refreshing that Hey, Frodsham, and their team look at the Neolithic in terms of a northern tradition … The editors have skilfully integrated the academic, commercial and community sectors to provide a multi-interpretive approach to this dynamic period … This book is a much-needed addition to the Neolithic bookshelf and will be a useful reference for ongoing and future research.

Current Archaeology

Se alle

This book, like the 2016 conference in Carlisle from which it derives, is an explicit bid to sing the glories of stone axe quarries, rock art, stone circles and other landscape features which proclaim the intense regionality of Britain’s earliest farming communities.

British Archaeology

These papers highlight recent archaeological work in Northern England, in the commercial, academic and community archaeology sectors, which have fundamentally changed our perspective on the Neolithic of the area. Much of this was new work (and much is still not published) and has been overlooked in the national discourse. The papers cover a wide geographical area, from Lancashire north into the Scottish Lowlands, recognising the irrelevance of the England/Scotland Border. They also take a broad chronological sweep, from the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition to the introduction of Beakers into the area.   The key themes are: the nature of transition; the need for a much-improved chronological framework; regional variation linked to landscape character; links within northern England and with distant places; the implications of new dating for our understanding of the axe trade; the changing nature of settlement and agriculture; the character of early Neolithic enclosures; and the need to integrate rock art into wider discourse.
Les mer
A review of the latest research into the Neolithic settlement of northern England/southern Scotland.
List of contributors List of figures List of tables and appendices   Introduction Gill Hey and Paul Frodsham   Acknowledgements   Chapter 1: Langdale and the Northern Neolithic Richard Bradley and Aaron Watson   Chapter 2: Stainton West: a Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Site on the Banks of the River Eden Fraser Brown   Chapter 3: The last hunter of a wise race: evidence for Neolithic practices in northern England Seren Griffiths   Chapter 4: ‘Weird and atypical, even degenerate’… or then again, maybe not? Early Neolithic Enclosures in the North Al Oswald and Mark Edmonds   Chapter 5: Documenting English Rock Art: a review of the ‘big picture’ Kate E. Sharpe   Chapter 6: New Light on the Neolithic: a perspective from North-East England Clive Waddington   Chapter 7: Street House in the Neolithic Period, Stephen J. Sherlock   Chapter 8: Recent work on the Neolithic landscapes of Cumbria and North Lancashire Helen Evans, Antony Dickson and Denise Druce   Chapter 9: Out of the Shadows: an emerging Neolithic in the Yorkshire Dales   Yvonne Luke   Chapter 10: ‘A most noble work', at the Heart of Neolithic Britain.  Some Thoughts on the Long Meg Complex in the Light of Recent Fieldwork Paul Frodsham   Chapter 11: A View from North of the Border Alison Sheridan   Chapter 12:  Monumentality in Neolithic Britain: The Case of South West Scotland Julian Thomas   Chapter 13: A New Survey of The Carles Stone Circle, Castlerigg, Cumbria Al Oswald and Constance Durgeat   Chapter 14: Two Newly-Identified Possible ‘Hengiform’ Monuments in the North Pennines Stewart Ainsworth, David McOmish, Al Oswald and Andrew Payne   Chapter 15: The End of the Neolithic?: Early Bell Beaker Groups in Northern England A. P. Fitzpatrick
Les mer
First major publication in 20 years to focus on the Neolithic across northern England and southern Scotland

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781789252668
Publisert
2020-11-15
Utgiver
Oxbow Books
Høyde
280 mm
Bredde
216 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Redaktør
Hey Gill
Frodsham Paul

Biografisk notat

Gill Hey is CEO of Oxford Archaeology with research interests in Neolithic Britain. Paul Frodsham is recently retired as archaeologist for the Northumberland National Park.

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