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Antiquity 81 (312)
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Title:
Antiquity 81 (312)
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Antiquity
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Volume:
81 (312)
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Journal
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Editor:
Martin O H Carver
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Antiquity Publications Ltd
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Year of Publication:
2007
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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18 Sep 2007
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Sea level change and the prehistory of Orkney
Susan Dawson
Caroline R Wickham-Jones
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Interim report on a project aimed at documenting the submerged coastal evidence for the earliest settlement of Orkney, which is under threat through erosion and human disturbance. The initial step was to reconstruct the former position of the sea and the evolution of the coastal landscape at different time-slices for the last 10 000 years; this would allow an examination of likely prehistoric settlement patterns in the former coastal area.
Prehistoric surveyors -- measured landscapes
John Hill
0
In the article the author describes his method of using new technology to investigate prehistoric ritual landscapes, arguing that Neolithic and Early Bronze Age communities went to great effort to create ritual landscapes so that their monuments could align towards natural features of the landscape. The author investigated the geographical positioning of over 400 extant prehistoric ritual monuments located throughout the Peak District, Derbyshire. In particular, he examined the location of each individual monument in relation to its nearest natural landscape feature (such as caves, hilltops, rivers and valleys).
Designs and designers of medieval `new towns' in Wales
Keith D Lilley
Christopher D Lloyd
Steven Trick
279 - 293
The authors analyse the new towns founded by Edward I in Wales and find some highly significant variations from the standard plan often credited with having been applied by the hand of authority -- that of a grid of streets associated with a fortress. Rediscovering the original layouts by high precision survey and GIS mapping, they show that some towns, founded at the same time and on similar topography, had quite different layouts, while others, founded at long intervals, had plans that were almost identical. Documentation hints at the explanation that it was the architects, masons and ditch-diggers, not the king and aristocracy, who established and developed these blueprints of urban life.
The transition from the Lower to the Middle Palaeolithic in Europe and the incorporation of difference
Terry Hopkinson
294 - 307
The author argues for a significant social and cognitive transition between the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in Europe on the basis that, between about 300,000 and 200,000 years ago, early Neanderthals developed stone working techniques which combined methods that were previously discrete, began to occupy high-relief terrain and to settle systematically the highly seasonal environments of central and eastern Europe -- skill-sets here termed the `incorporation of difference'. These findings point to a reassessment of the competence of pre-modern hominins and a review of what the author terms `the boundaries we erect to police the uniqueness of humanity'.
What linked the Bell Beakers in third millennium BC Europe?
Mark Vander Linden
343 - 352
The author argues that neither trade nor migration can account for the distribution of Bell Beakers and the associated artefacts and burial practices in Europe, but that the materials were generally local and rooted in local know-how. However recent stable isotope results show small-scale population changes associated with the arrival of Beaker practice. The distribution of Bell Beakers could thus reflect the movement of marriage partners.
Materiality and memory: an archaeological perspective on the popular adopt...
Harold C Mytum
381 - 396
The author examines the concept of linear, measurable time which emerged in learned Europe largely in the first millennium, and tracks how, with the broadening of literacy in sixteenth-century Britain, dates start appearing on numerous items of popular culture. The dated objects in turn feed back into the way that people of all social levels began to see themselves and their place in history.
A weapon of choice -- experiments with a replica Irish Early Bronze Age halberd
Ronan O'Flaherty
423 - 434
The halberd of prehistoric Europe is thought by some to have had a symbolic rather than a functional purpose. To find out if, and how, it might have worked as a weapon, the author tested a replica on a number of sheep's heads, finding it highly effective in administering killer blows. Studies taking off from these experiments indicate that the halberd could have performed both in fighting and ritual, and in ritualised fighting, during its predominance in the Early Bronze Age.
Imag(in)ing the Celts
Vincent V S Megaw
438 - 445
In the latest of his periodic reviews of Celtic exhibitions in Antiquity (Megaw 1981; 1992; 1994), the author evaluates a series of such events over the past decade.
