Overview

Studies of prehistoric pottery in Britain have changed dramatically through the 1990s and many of these developments are considered here by members of The Prehistoric Pottery Research Group. They argue that key aspects of pottery technology and usage can provide us with indicators for some of the many things that we wish to know about people in prehistory: how they lived, worked and subsisted on a daily basis, how their activities varied by the seasons, how they celebrated festivals and rites of passage at home and with other people, how they interrelated and socialized with their neighbours at local and regional levels, and how they related to the world around them. The potential to manufacture vessels of many different sizes, shapes and styles meant that customs of presenting food, drink and drugs, both at the domestic and communal levels could be highly elaborate. The shapes, colour, texture and decoration of pottery vessels could be developed to signify kinship or status, and to act as symbolic markers relating to many spheres of social and spiritual life.

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Author:   Ann Woodward ,  J. D. Hill ,  J. D. Hill
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9781842170717

ISBN 10:   1842170716
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   15 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction  (Ann Woodward & J D Hill)   1) A date with the past: Late Bronze and Iron Age pottery and chronology  (Steven Willis) 2) The nature of archaeological deposits and finds assemblages  (Joshua Pollard) 3) Aspects of manufacture and ceramic technology  (Alex Gibson) 4) Between ritual and routine: interpreting British prehistoric pottery production and distribution  (Sue Hamilton) 5) Staying alive: The function and use of prehistoric ceramics  (Elaine L Morris) 6) Sherds in space: pottery and the analysis of site organisation  (Ann Woodward) 7) Pottery and the expression of society, economy and culture  (J D Hill) 8) Ceramic lifes  (Alistair Barclay) 9) Pots as categories: British Beakers  (Robin Boast) 10) Inclusions, impressions and interpretation  (Ann Woodward) 11) A regional ceramic sequence: pottery of the First Millennium BC between the Humber and the Nene  (David Knight) 12) Just about the potter's wheel? Using, making and depositing Middle and Later Iron Age pots in East Anglia  (J D Hill) 13) Roman pottery in Iron Age Britain

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Ann Woodward is a retired Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. She specialises in Bronze Age pottery and barrows; her publications include An Examination of Prehistoric Stone Bracers, and Prehistoric Britain: The Ceramic Basis. J.D. Hill is Research Manager in the British Museum and specializes in the Iron Age. Contributors include curatorial experts drawn from the whole range of the British Museum’s collection.

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