Stella & Rose's Books

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Contents

• PART 1 - THE ICE AGES: PALAEOGEOGRAPHY, PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY AND PLEISTOCENE ENVIRONMENTS
• Chapter 1 - Introduction and teh Pre-Anglian Geological, Palaeo-Environmental and Archaeological Records by Anthony Morigi, Danielle Schreve and Mark White
• Chronostratigraphy
• North-Western European Setting of teh River Thames System
• Topography and Geology of the Thames Catchment: An Overview
• An overview of the river terrace deposits of the Thames
• Climatic controls on Thames terrace formation
• Tectonic controls on Thames terrace formation
• Nomenclature of the river terrace deposits
• The Early and Middle Pleistocene Environment and Occupation
• The Early Pleistocene
• The early Middle Pleistocene
• The earliest occupation of Britain
• Upper and Middle Thames
• Hominin behaviour in the Lower Palaeolithic
• CHAPTER 2 - THE DIVERSION OF THE THAMES, THE HOXNIAN INTERGLACIAL AND ADJACENT COLD STAGES (MIS 12-11-10) by Danielle Schreve, Anthony Morigi and Mark White
• The Anglian Glaciation
• The diversion of the Thanes
• Palaeogeography of the terrace deposits
• Correlation of the terrace deposits
• Archaeology and Palaeontology of the Anglian Glaciation
• The Hoxnian Interglacial
• Sites outside the main area
• Key sites in the Upper and Middle Thames
• Key Debates in Hoxnian Archaeology
• Clactonian-Acheulian
• Hominin landscapes and habitats
• Handaxe variation
• CHAPTER 3 - THE 'PURFLEET' INTERGLACIAL AND ADJACENT COLD STAGES (MIS 10-8) by Mark White, Danielle Schreve and Anthony Morigi
• Palaeogeography of the Terrace Deposits
• Correlation of the terrace deposits
• The Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment of the 'Purfleet' Interglacial
• Levallois technology and the early Middle Palaeolithic
• Behavioural changes a teh Lower-Middle Palaeolithic transition
• CHAPTER 4 - THE 'AVELEY' INTERGLACIAL AND ADJACENT COLD STAGES (MIS 8-6) by Anthony Morigi, Mark White and Danielle Schreve
• Palaeogeography of teh Terrace Deposits
• Correlation of teh terraces
• Archaeology and Palaeontology
• Finds outside the study area
• Sites in the main area
• Human behaviour and population dynamics of MIS 7
• CHAPTER 5 - THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ABSENCE IN THE LATE PLEISTOCENE (mis 6-4) by Danielle Schreve, Mark White and Anthony Morigi
• Palaeogeography of the Thames Terraces
• Correlation of the terrace deposits
• Archaeology and Palaeontology
• Is the absence real or imaginary?
• How can the absence be explained?
• MIS 5E: The Ipswichian Interglacial
• MIS 5D-4: The Early Devensian
• CHAPTER 6 - THE MIDDLE AND LATE DEVENSIAN (MIS 3-2) by Mark White, Anthony Morigi and Danielle Schreve
• Palaeogeography of the Terraces
• Correlation of the terraces
• The Late Middle Palaeolithic
• The Early Upper Palaeolithic (EUP)
• CHAPTER 7 - THE TERMINAL PLEISTONCENE-EARLY HOLOCENE TRANSITION (MIS2-1), C 20-10 000 BP by Danielle Schreve, and Mark White with contributions by Gill Hey, Philip Jones, Anthony Morigi and Mark Robinson
• Palaeogeography of the Terraces
• Correlation of the terraces
• Lateglacial Humans and their Environment
• The Last Glacial Maximum
• The return of humans in the lateglacial (Windermere) Interstadial
• The Late Upper Palaeolithic
• The Final Upper Palaeolithic
• The last cold spell: the Younger Dryas/Loch Lomond stadial
• Later glacial environments
• Human occupation: Final Upper Palaeolithic 'long blade' industries
• PART 2: THE MESOLITHIC, NEOLITHIC AND EARLY BRONZE AGE AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PERMANENT HUMAN OCCUPATION IN THE VALLEY
• CHAPTER 8: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HOLOCENE OF THE THAMES by Gill Hey with Chris Hayden
• Introduction to the Holocene of teh Thames
• The History of Research
• The Nature of the Evidence
• Preservational environments
• The state of preservation of archaeological remains
• Investigating Mesolithic, neolithic and early Bronze Age remains
• Chronology and Definitions: An Overview
• The role of material culture
• The impact of the radiocarbon dating on our understanding of the period
• A brief overview
• CHAPTER 9 - THE THAMES AND ITS CHANGING ENVIRONMENT IN OUR ERA by Mark Robinson
• Floodplain Creation at the end of the Devensian
• Palaeohydrology
• The Late Devensian to Holocene transition c 11,500 cal BP/9500 cal BC
• The Mesolithic c 9600-4000 cal BC
• The Neolithic c 4000-2500 cal BC
• The early Bronze Age c 2500-1500 cal BC
• Aquatic conditions
• Vegetational Succession
• The early Mesolithic (Flandrian Zone I, 9400-6000 cal BC)
• The late Mesolithic (Flandrian Zone II, 6000-4000 cal BC)
• The Elm decline and teh earliest Neolithic, c 4000 cal BC
• The Neolithic, c 4000-2500 cal BC)
• The early Bronze Age (2500-1500 cal BC)
• Middle Bronze Age postscript (1500 cal BC onwards)
• Origin and Development of Agriculture in teh Thames Valley
• CHAPTER 10 - MESOLITHIC COMMUNITIES IN THE THAMES VALLEY: LIVING IN THH NATURAL LANDSCAPE by Gill Hey with Mark Robinson
• Hunter-Gatherers
• Movement and Habitation in the Early Mesolithic
• The Kennet Valley
• Early Mesolithic habitation elsewhere in the Thames Valley catchment
• Later Mesolithic Habitation in teh Thames Valley
• Mesolithic Lifeways
• Hunter-Gatherers and Natural Resources
• CHAPTER 11 - NEOLITHIC COMMUNITIES IN THE THAMES VALLEY: THE CREATION OF NEW WORLDS by Gill Hey with Mark Robinson
• World in Transition: Changing Landscapes of the Early 4th Millennium CAL BC
• Inherited landscapes
• Changing landscapes
• Woodland clearance
• The evidence from three-throw holes
• The Creation of New Worlds
• Hoses
• Middens
• Artefact Scatters
• Pits
• New objects and materials
• New foods
• Animal and dairying
• Cereals
• Becoming 'Neolithic'
• Neolithic Habitation: Living in an Altered Landscape
• The early Neolithic settlement of the Thames Valley
• Later Neolithic land use and teh social landscape
• CHAPTER 12 - INSCRIBING THE LANDSCAPE: NEOLITHIC FUNERARY AND CEREMONIAL MONUMENTS by Gill hey and Alistair Barclay
• Constructing Monuments and Burying the Dead
• The Earliest Monuments
• The Cotswolds monuments
• Early monuments on the Chalk
• Funerary and other small monuments of the 4th millennium on the river gravels
• Causewayed Enclosures
• Cursus Monuments and Bank Barrows
• Henges
• Stone and Timber Circles
• Monument Complexes
• CHAPTER 13 - DOMESTICATING THE LANDSCAPE: SETTLEMENT AND AGRICLTURE IN THE EARLY BRONZE AGE by Gill Hey with Mark Robinson
• The End of the Neolithic, the Beginning of the Bronze Age, and teh Beaker Phenomenon
• Settlement at the Beginning of the Bronze Age
• Bronze Age Settlement in teh Early 2nd Millennium CAL BC
• Evidence for Change in Early Bronze Age Settlement
• Landscape, Land Use and Farming
• A Changed Landscape
• CHAPTER 14: RITUAL, CEREMONY AND COSMOLOGY by Paul Garwood with Gill Hey and Alistair Barclay
• Ritual Practices and Ceremonial Monuments by Paul Garwood
• Interpreting ritual and ceremony
• Ritual and material culture: special objects and structured deposits
• Sacred places: space, knowledge and ceremonial architecture
• The creation of sacred landscapes: ritual and cosmography
• Interpreting Neolithic Ceremonial Monuments and Depositional Practices by Alistair Barclay with Paul Garwood and Gill Hey
• The simple tombs of teh north-east Cotswolds
• Long barrow, cairns and mortuary structures
• Causewayed enclosures
• Cursus monuments and related structures in the Thames Valley
• Henges
• Neolithic round barrow, ring ditches and pit circles
• Earth, Ceremony and Monumental Architecture in teh Beaker Period and Early Bronze Age by Paul Garwood
• Round barrows as ceremonial architecture
• Round barrow groups as ceremonial complexes
• Acts of Ritualised Deposition in Pits, Tree-Throw Holes and Middens by Alistair Barclay and Paul Garwood
• River Deposits and Votive Offerings by Alistair Barclay
• Ritual, Ceremony and Cosmography
• CHAPTER 15: MAKING THE DEAD by Paul Garwood with a contribution by Alistair Barclay
• Funerary Ritual and Society by Paul Garwood
• Early Neolithic Mortuary Practices: Imagining, Making and Celebrating the Dead by Paul Garwood
• Exceptional Events: Complex Burials in the Late 4th-Early 3rd Millennia CAL BC by Paul Garwood and Alistair Barclay
• A Time and a Place for the Cremation Cemetery by Paul Garwood and Alistair Barclay
• Beaker Period and Early Bronze Age Funerary Practices, 2500-1800 CAL BC by Paul Garwood
• Radical departures: Beaker funerary ritual and the late Neolithic ceremonial landscape
• Communities of the dead, single graves and mortuary symbolism, 2100-1800 cal BC
• Early Bronze Age Burials, Monuments and Landscape, 1900-1500 CAL BC by Paul Garwood
• The diversity and complexity of early bronze Age funerary practices
• Funerary deposition in 'open' arena and premound contexts
• Funerary deposition in 'closed' primary contexts sealed by mounds
• Satellite burials and complex early Bronze Age funerary architecture
• Burning events, pyres, and funerary display
• The elite dead: power and identity
• CHAPTER 16: MEANINGFUL MATERIALS: PROCUREMENT, PRODUCTION AND EXCHANGE by Alistair Barclay and Philippa Bradley
• Introduction
• Meaningful materials
• Exchange
• Deposition and discard
• Raw Materials
• Flint and stone
• Shell
• Clay Organic materials
• Metals
• Production and Craftsmanship
• Working stone and flint
• Knowledge of materials and craftsmanship
• Lithic assemblages and their analysis
• Mesolithic flintworking techniques
• Neolithic flintworking techniques
• Bronze Age flintworking techniques
• Stone working
• Amber
• Shale, lignite and jet
• Shells, fossils and other natural materials
• Faience
• Organic materials
• Woodworking
• Worked bone, horn and antler
• Textiles, fibres, leather and resin
• New Technologies
• Pottery: a novel technology
• The place of potting within the community
• Development of pottery production and decoration
• The first metalwork
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index