| Abstract: |
Twenty-two papers in three sections, the first on origins of agriculture, etc. Section 2, Early human remains, includes: S H Andersen et al on Meso burials in Denmark (pp 39-43). Section 3, Upper Palaeolithic, includes J Gowlett & R Hedges (63-71), 'Lessons of context and contamination in dating the Upper Palaeolithic' (including Gough's Cave and the Sproughton point); R M Jacobi (81-6), 'AMS results from Cheddar Gorge - trodden and untrodden "lifeways" ' (the first chronological fix in Europe for 'Creswellian' type technology, and clarification of Cheddar data); J Cook & R N E Barton (87-9), 'Dating Late Devensian-Early Flandrian barbed points' (Sproughton and Earls Barton: 11kyr BP and 10kyr BP respectively); J G Evans (91-3), 'Radiocarbon dates from the Pitstone Soil at Pitstone, Buckinghamshire' (palaeosol, Windermere Interstadial date confirmed at 10kyr BP); Richard Burleigh (95-8), 'Complementarity of conventional and accelerator dating: examples in Pleistocene extinctions'. Section 4, Later Prehistory, has T C Darvill (119-24), 'Prospects for dating Neo sites and monuments in the Cotswolds and adjacent areas' (dates for two Gloucestershire sites, Peak Camp and Hazleton chambered tomb); J G Evans & D D A Simpson (125-31), 'Radiocarbon dates for the Giants' Hills 2 long barrow, Skendleby, Lincolnshire' (environment and archaeology; three Neo phases including Late Neo reuse); Alan Saville (133-7), 'Radiocarbon dating of Hazleton North chambered tomb: a preliminary statement' (monument use phase 2890-2500bc + 80/120); Richard Bradley (139-41), 'Radiocarbon and the cursus problem' (cursus appear fairly early in Neo, in long barrow/causewayed enclosure phase, may belong to large-scale celebration of dead). S P Needham (143-50), 'Radiocarbon: a means to understanding the role of Bronze Age metalwork' (expresses dissatisfaction with hoard chronologies and suspects that regional differences may have depositional causes); R Bradley (151-4), 'Methodological issues in the study of Bronze Age chronology'. The last section has R Gillespie & J Gowlett (157-62), 'The terminology of time' (BP dating); and R E M Hedges (163-5), 'The future prospects of accelerator dating'. Appended is a list of dates (laboratory number order only). |
