(The) later prehistory of North-West Europe : the evidence of development-led fieldwork

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Figures = xiii
• List of Tables = xix
• 1. Setting the Scene = 1
• An Archaeology of Europe? = 1
• The Changing Scale of European Archaeology = 5
• The Question of Scale in British and Irish Archaeology = 7
• The Impact of Development-Led Archaeology = 10
• Introducing the Project = 12
• The Dataset = 17
• Contemporary Archaeological Practice in North-West Europe and the Constitution of the Archaeological Record = 26
• Development Pressures = 26
• The Organization of Development-Led Archaeology = 27
• Funding = 29
• Fieldwork and Post-Excavation Practice = 30
• Conclusion = 37
• 2. Late Foragers and First Farmers(8000-3700 BC) = 39
• Mesolithic Studies and Neolithic Studies = 39
• The Last Foragers = 45
• Inland Areas = 46
• On the Coast = 48
• Integration = 52
• The Introduction of Farming : The Linearbandkeramik Culture = 55
• New Configurations in Germany and France(4900-3700 BC) = 58
• The First Monumental Cemeteries in the Paris Basin = 62
• The Development of Enclosures = 64
• The Development of Flint Mines = 66
• The Adoption of Agriculture in North-West France = 67
• The Adoption of Agriculture in Northern Germany, the Low Countries, and Denmark = 71
• The Adoption of Agriculture in the British Isles = 74
• The Direction of Change = 81
• 3. Regional Monumental Landscapes(3700-2500 BC) = 84
• A Second Generation of Neolithic Monuments = 84
• The Histories of Funerary Monuments = 86
• Long Mounds in Denmark and the British Isles = 87
• Passage Graves in Ireland and Britain = 92
• Passage Graves and Other Mortuary Monuments in Northern Europe = 93
• Later Chambered Tombs in France = 93
• Later Chambered Tombs in Western Germany and the Low Countries = 95
• The Demise of Megalithic Tombs and the Development of New Burial Rites = 96
• The Histories of Enclosures = 98
• Causewayed Enclosures in Britain and Ireland = 98
• Causewayed Enclosures in Northern Europe = 99
• Causewayed Enclosures in France = 101
• Stone Circles and Henge Monuments in the British Isles = 104
• Settlements = 107
• Settlements and Great Houses in France and Belgium = 108
• Settlements and Great Houses in the British Isles = 112
• The Development of Long-Distance Networks = 115
• Overview : Themes with Variations = 117
• Entering a New World = 121
• Corded Ware Settlements = 122
• Corded Ware Burials = 123
• 4. Barrow Landscapes Across the Channel(2500-1600 BC) = 126
• Introduction : Lives and Deaths = 126
• The Bell Beaker Phase = 131
• Mobility = 133
• Metallurgy = 134
• Bell Beaker Settlements = 135
• Monuments and the Past = 141
• Bell Beaker Mortuary Practices = 143
• Overview = 150
• Early Bronze Age Networks = 151
• Mobility, Metallurgy, and Exchange = 152
• Settlement Evidence = 155
• Summary = 157
• Early Bronze Age Funerary Practices = 158
• Round Barrows and Ring-Ditches = 160
• Round Barrows and Flat Graves = 162
• Flat Cemeteries = 164
• Summary = 164
• The Shape of Things to Come = 167
• 5. Changes in the Pattern of Settlement(1600-1100 BC) = 171
• Introduction = 171
• Settlement = 175
• Settlement in the Low Countries and Northern Europe = 175
• Settlement in Britain and Ireland = 182
• Settlement in the Maritime Regions of Northern and Western France = 188
• Settlement : An Overview = 192
• Treatment of the Dead = 195
• Germany and Northern Europe = 195
• The Low Countries and Neighbouring Areas = 198
• Britain and Ireland = 199
• North-Western and Western France = 201
• The Dead : An Overview = 203
• The Deposition of Metalwork = 205
• Summary = 209
• A New Attachment to Place = 210
• 6. The Expansion of Settlement(1100-250 BC) = 213
• Introduction = 213
• Settlement = 216
• Hillforts = 227
• Lines across the Landscape = 233
• Living off the Land = 236
• Production and Exchange = 238
• Middens, Feasting, and Conspicuous Consumption = 239
• Artefact Deposition = 241
• Dealings with the Dead = 246
• Late Bronze Age Cemeteries = 246
• Earlier Iron Age Cemeteries = 250
• Social Distinctions in Funerary Rites = 252
• Human Remains in Settlements = 254
• Human Remains in Natural Places = 255
• Death and Personhood = 257
• Material Culture and Regional Interactions = 258
• Social Forms During the Early to Mid-First Millennium BC = 259
• 7. Total Landscapes(250 BC to the Early Roman Period) = 261
• Introduction = 261
• Households and Rural Settlement = 264
• Northern and North-Western France = 265
• Western Germany and Southern Belgium = 272
• The Longhouse Region of the North European Plain = 276
• Britain and Ireland = 278
• A More Ordered Landscape = 283
• Central Places = 285
• Summary = 297
• Objects and Connections = 299
• Ritual and Deposition = 305
• Treatment of the Dead = 312
• Social and Regional Trends in Burial Practices = 316
• Summary = 324
• The End of Prehistory = 324
• 8. The Research in Retrospect = 328
• Potentials and Limitations = 328
• Is There a Prehistory of North-West Europe? = 331
• Housing the Living and the Dead = 334
• Demography and Climate = 336
• The Prehistory of European Society = 340
• Appendix : List of sites from the database cited in the text = 343
• References = 357
• Index = 443