Overview

The prehistories of Britain and Ireland are inescapably entwined with continental European narratives. The central aim here is to explore ‘cross-channel’ relationships throughout later prehistory, investigating the archaeological links (material, social, cultural) between the areas we now call Britain and Ireland, and continental Europe, from the Mesolithic through to the end of the Iron Age. Since the separation from the European mainland of Ireland (c. 16,000 BC) and Britain (c. 6000 BC), their island nature has been seen as central to many aspects of life within them, helping to define their senses of identity, and forming a crucial part of their neighbourly relationship with continental Europe and with each other. However, it is important to remember that the surrounding seaways have often served to connect as well as to separate these islands from the continent. In approaching the subject of ‘continental connections’ in the long-term, and by bringing a variety of different archaeological perspectives (associated with different periods) to bear on it, this volume provides a new a new synthesis of the ebbs and flows of the cross-channel relationship over the course of 15,000 years of later prehistory, enabling fresh understandings and new insights to emerge about the intimately linked trajectories of change in both regions.

Full Product Details

Author:   Hugo Anderson-Whymark ,  Duncan Garrow ,  Fraser Sturt
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781782978091

ISBN 10:   1782978097
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   26 February 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

1. Continental connections: introduction Duncan Garrow & Fraser Sturt 2. From sea to land and back again: understanding the shifting character of Europe's landscapes and seascapes over the last million years Fraser Sturt 3. Attitudes and latitudes to seafaring in prehistoric Atlantic Europe Robert Van De Noort 4. Britain and Ireland inside Mesolithic Europe Graeme Warren 5. Seaways and shared ways: imagining and imaging the movement of people, objects and ideas over the course of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, c. 5000-3500 BC Hugo Anderson-Whymark & Duncan Garrow 6. Parallel Lives? Neolithic funerary monuments and the Channel divide Chris Scarre 7. What was and what would never be: changing patterns of interaction and archaeological visibility across North West Europe from 2500 to 1500 cal. BC Neil Wilkin & Marc Vander Linden 8. Rethinking Iron Age connections across the Channel and North Sea Leo Webley 9. Connections and separation? Narratives of Iron Age art in Britain and its relationship with the Continent Jody Joy 10. Continental connections: concluding discussion Fraser Sturt & Duncan Garrow

Reviews

This really is a highly recommended, must-read volume that moves the debate forward in interesting directions. * Landscape History * This work is significant. It gives the continental reader insight into both an important subject and the post-process intellectual world of British research. * Germania *

This really is a highly recommended, must-read volume that moves the debate forward in interesting directions. -- Andrew Meirion Jones Landscape History

Author Information

Hugo Anderson-Whymark is a Researcher at the University of York, based in Stromness, Orkney. He is a prehistorian specialising in flint and stone artefacts. Duncan Garrow teaches later European prehistory and archaeological theory at the University of Reading. His research interests include long-term histories of deposition, burial practices, island archaeologies and interdisciplinary approaches to material culture. Fraser Sturt is a senior lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Southampton University specialising in maritime prehistory and geoarchaeology.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions