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Contains: Introduction by editors (pp 1-3); Section 1, Materials, theories and themes: R Bradley (5-14), Regional systems in Neolithic Britain; J P Gardiner (15-40), Lithic distributions and Neolithic settlement patterns in central southern England; I J Thorpe (41-60), Ritual, power and ideology: a reconstruction of Earlier Neolithic rituals in Wessex; R Bradley (61-6), Studying monuments; I J Thorpe & Colin C Richards (67-84), The decline of ritual authority and the introduction of Beakers into Britain. Section 2, Three regional studies: R Bradley, Rosamund Cleal et al (87-105), The Neolithic sequence in Cranborne Chase; R Bradley & R Holgate (107-34), The Neolithic sequence in the Upper Thames Valley; R Cleal (135-58), The Later Neolithic in eastern England. Section 3, Three local studies: Julian Thomas (161-76), A tale of two polities: kinship, authority and exchange in the Neolithic of S Dorset and N Wilts; Julian Richards (177-87), The development of the Neolithic landscape in the environs of Stonehenge; Colin Richards & Julian Thomas (189-218), Ritual activity and structured deposition in later Neolithic Wessex. |