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report on an `enclosure' of Mesolithic pits which has yielded a microlith inventory of a type not previously recognised, radiocarbon dates from one of the pit features suggesting occupation of the site well into the fifth millennium cal BC

the paper aims to increase awareness of the soil science contribution to current improvements in understanding of the Neolithic of south-east England by reviewing some soil science methods, experimental studies, some of the European regional background, and on-site study themes

examines the reasons for the bias in the reported record of earlier Holocene sites in the area, and the archaeological and stratigraphic evidence that should provide the data to examine issues related to the speed of landscape change, the spatial complexity of the contemporary landscape, and the potential relationship between preserved sites and current site distributions for the earlier parts of the Holocene approximating to the Mesolithic and Neolithic phases.

the article aims to highlight some new discoveries and promote the sources of information relating to aerial survey

provides a study of the evidence for, and the impact of, Neolithic people in an area of the middle Thames Valley between Taplow and Eton, dealing largely with the results of two landscape projects which together provide one of the most intensive archaeological investigations of any stretch of the Thames Valley

draws on the results and digital archives of the 1998/1999 excavations at Perry Oaks, which aimed to move beyond the recovery and description of archaeological remains, and to create an understanding of the history of human inhabitation of the landscape and to develop this into a site narrative

summarises the findings of a study of the distribution of material culture in relation to the general architecture of the Staines causewayed enclosure, undertaken in order to investigate further and clarify the patterns presented in the published report. The paper also presents some general conclusions about spatial patterning and causewayed enclosure design

paper dealing in detail with two sherds from the Thames at Mortlake, one containing the impression of a fingertip and the other the impression of a whittled stick or twig, and also placing the sherds within their wider regional ceramic context;

cleaning of a section exposed during quarrying operations at Lower Mill Farm, Stanwell, Surrey, and subsequent excavation, revealed several features and worked flints apparently of late Neolithic date, plus a worked bone `scoop' and fragments of a Grooved Ware vessel, both described in this article

description and discussion of the site, which included three pits containing large quantities of Grooved Ware, radiocarbon dates of carbonised residues adhering to which suggest deposition in the early- to mid-third millennium BC. The site also included late Mesolithic and Late Bronze Age material

review of a sample of ethnographic data from North America in order to create an interpretative framework by which to study European, and in particular, South Downs Neolithic flint mining, and to give a comparative analysis