New Light on the Neolithic of Northern England

Gill Hey, Paul Frodsham

• Publisher: Oxbow Books
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781789252699
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: Social Sciences

These papers highlight recent archaeological work in Northern England, in the commercial, academic and community archaeology sectors, which have fundamentally changed our perspective on the Neolithic of the area. Much of this was new work (and much is still not published) has been overlooked in the national discourse. The papers cover a wide geographical area, from Lancashire north into the Scottish Lowlands, recognising the irrelevance of the England/Scotland Border. They also take abroad chronological sweep, from the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition to the introduction of Beakers into the area. The key themes are: the nature of transition; the need for a much-improved chronological framework; regional variation linked to landscape character; links within northern England and with distant places; the implications of new dating for our understanding 'the axe trade; the changing nature of settlement and agriculture; the character early Neolithic enclosures; the need to integrate rock art into wider discourse.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Book Title
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• List of figures
• Introducing New Light on the Neolithic of Northern England
• 1. Langdale and the northern Neolithic
• 2. Stainton West: a late Mesolithic and early Neolithic site on the banks of the River Eden
• 3. The last hunter of a wise race: evidence for Neolithic practices in northern England
• 4. ‘Weird and atypical, even degenerate’ … or then again, maybe not? Early Neolithic enclosures in the North
• 5. Documenting English rock art: a review of the ‘big picture’
• 6. New light on the Neolithic: a perspective from north-east England
• 7. Street House in the Neolithic period
• 8. Recent work on the Neolithic landscapes of Cumbria and North Lancashire
• 9. Out of the shadows: an emerging Neolithic in the Yorkshire Dales
• 10. ‘A most noble work’, at the heart of Neolithic Britain. Some thoughts on the Long Meg complex in the light of recent fieldwork
• 11. A view from north of the border
• 12. Monumentality in Neolithic Britain: the case of south-west Scotland
• 13. A new survey of the Carles stone circle, Castlerigg, Cumbria
• 14. Two newly-identified possible ‘hengiform’ monuments in the North Pennines
• 15. The end of the Neolithic? Early Bell Beaker groups in northern England