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Author:   Graham Brown ,  David Field ,  David McOmish ,  Deborah Cunliffe
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Dimensions:   Width: 22.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 29.00cm
Weight:   0.880kg
ISBN:  

9781842171523

ISBN 10:   1842171526
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   08 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations List of Tables List of contributors Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Some observations on change, consolidation and perception in the chalk landscape (David Field, Graham Brown and David McOmish) Fieldwork in the Avebury area (David McOmish, Hazel Riley, David Field and Carenza Lewis) Recent aerial survey work in the Marlborough Downs region (Simon Crutchley) The investigation of sites on the Marlborough Downs using geophysical methods (Andrew David) The geological history of the Marlborough Downs (Isobel Geddes and Helen Walkington) The Palaeolithic of the Marlborough Downs and Avebury area (Julie Scott Jackson) Some observations on perception, consolidation and change in a land of stones (David Field) Considering prehistoric environmental changes on the Marlborough Downs (Michael J. Allen) Mesolithic hunter-gatherer exploitation of the Marlborough Downs (Stephen Allen) Memory, monuments and middens in the Neolithic landscape (Joshua Pollard) Avebury, the Marlborough Downs and their local context in the Early Bronze Age (Ros Cleal) Bronze Age land allotment on the Marlborough Downs (David McOmish) There wur a bit of ould brass : Bronze Age metalwork and the Marlborough Downs landscape (Martyn Barber) Prehistoric linear ditches on the Marlborough Downs, Wiltshire: an initial view (Graeme Kirkham) The middle Iron Age on the Marlborough Downs (Mark Bowden) From pagus to parish: Territory and Settlement in the Avebury region from the Late Roman Period to the Domesday Survey (Andrew Reynolds) The monastic settlement and land-use on the Marlborough Downs (Graham Brown) Medieval and later sheep farming on the Marlborough Downs (Nicky Smith) 'New myths at Swallowhead: the past and the present in the landscape of the Marlborough Downs' (Jon Cannon)

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the core of the book is superb' -- Mike Pitts British Archaeology, 2006 an essential basis on which to build for the future.' -- Geoff Wainwright Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 2005

...the core of the book is superb. British Archaeology ...an essential basis on which to build for the future. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society

the core of the book is superb' -- Mike Pitts British Archaeology 2006 an essential basis on which to build for the future.' -- Geoff Wainwright Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 2005

the core of the book is superb' -- British Archaeology British Archaeology an essential basis on which to build for the future.' -- Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society

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edited by Graham Brown, David Field and David McOmish with illustrations by Deborah Cunliffe

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