The later prehistory of North-West Europe : the evidence of development-led fieldwork / / Richard Bradley [and three others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825374003321
• Autore: Bradley Richard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016
• ISBN: 0-19-191828-8; 0-19-163471-9
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (477 p.)
• Collana: Oxford scholarship online
• Disciplina: 936.01
• Soggetti: Antiquities, Prehistoric - Europe; Europe Antiquities; Europe
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover ; The Later Prehistory of North-West Europe: The Evidence of Development-Led Fieldwork ; Copyright ; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Setting the Scene ; AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF EUROPE?; THE CHANGING SCALE OF EUROPE ANARCHAEOLOGY ; THE QUESTION OF SCALE IN BRITISH AND IRISH ARCHAEOLOGY ; THE IMPACT OF DEVELOPMENT-LED ARCHAEOLOGY ; INTRODUCING THE PROJECT; THE DATASET; CONTEMPORARY ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRACTICE IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD; Development Pressures; The Organization of Development-Led Archaeology; Funding; Fieldwork and Post-Excavation PracticeCONCLUSION; 2: Late Foragers and First Farmers (8000-3700 BC) ; MESOLITHIC STUDIES AND NEOLITHIC STUDIES; THE LAST FORAGERS; Inland Areas; On the Coast; Integration; THE INTRODUCTION OF FARMING: THE LINEARBANDKERAMIK CULTURE ; NEW CONFIGURATIONS IN GERMANY AND FRANCE (4900-3700 BC) ; The First Monumental Cemeteries in the Paris Basin; The Development of Enclosures; The Development of Flint Mines; THE ADOPTION OF AGRICULTURE IN NORTH-WEST FRANCE ; THE ADOPTION OF AGRICULTURE IN NORTHERN GERMANY, THE LOW COUNTRIES, AND DENMARK; THE ADOPTION OF AGRICULTURE IN THE BRITISH ISLES THE DIRECTION ; OF CHANGE; 3: Regional Monumental Landscapes (3700-2500 BC); A SECOND GENERATION OF NEOLITHIC MONUMENTS ; THE HISTORIES OF FUNERARY MONUMENTS; Long Mounds in Denmark and the British Isles; Passage Graves in Ireland and Britain; Passage Graves and Other Mortuary Monuments in Northern Europe ; Later Chambered Tombs in France; Later Chambered Tombs in Western Germany and the Low Countries ; The Demise of Megalithic Tombs and the Development of New Burial Rites ; THE HISTORIES OF ENCLOSURES; Causewayed Enclosures in Britain and IrelandCausewayed Enclosures in Northern Europe; Causewayed Enclosures in France; Stone Circles and Henge Monuments in the British Isles ; SETTLEMENTS; Settlements and Great Houses in France and Belgium; Settlements and Great Houses in the British Isles; THE DEVELOPMENT OF LONG-DISTANCE NETWORKS; OVERVIEW: THEMES WITH VARIATIONS; ENTERING A NEW WORLD; Corded Ware Settlements; Corded Ware Burials; 4: Barrow Landscapes Across the Channel (2500-1600 BC) ; INTRODUCTION: LIVES AND DEATHS; THE BELL BEAKER PHASE; Mobility; Metallurgy; Bell Beaker Settlements; Monuments and the PastBell Beaker Mortuary Practices; Overview; EARLY BRONZE AGE NETWORKS; Mobility, Metallurgy, and Exchange; Settlement Evidence; Summary; EARLY BRONZE AGE FUNERARY PRACTICES; Round Barrows and Ring-Ditches; Round Barrows and Flat Graves; Flat Cemeteries; Summary; THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME; 5: Changes in the Pattern of Settlement (1600-1100 BC) ; INTRODUCTION; SETTLEMENT; Settlement in the Low Countries and Northern Europe; Settlement in Britain and Ireland; Settlement in the Maritime Regions of Northern and Western France ; Settlement: An Overview; TREATMENT OF THE DEAD; Germany and Northern Europe
• Sommario/riassunto: An up-to-date and easily accessible synthesis of the later prehistoric archaeology of North-West Europe, surveying changes in social forms, landscape organisation, monument types, and ritual practices over six millennia.