Bronze Age Landscapes

Joanna Bruck

• Publisher: Oxbow Books
• Year: 2002
• eBook ISBN: 9781785705380
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: Social Sciences

This volume is a collection of essays, which exemplify the range and diversity of work currently being undertaken on the regional landscapes of the British Bronze Age and the progress which has been made in both theoretical and interpretive debate. Together these papers reflect the vibrancy of current research and promote a closer marriage of landscape, site and material culture studies. CONTENTS: Settlement in Scotland during the Second Millennium BC (P Ashmore); Place and Space in the Cambridgeshire Bronze Age (T Malim); Exploring Bronze Age Norfolk: Longham and Bittering (T Ashwin); Ritual Activity at the Foot of the Gog Magog Hills, Cambridge (M Hinman); The Bronze Age of Manchester Airport: Runway 2 (D Garner); Place and Memory in Bronze Age Wessex (D Field); Bronze Age Agricultural Intensification in the Thames Valley and Estuary (D Yates); The 'Community of Builders': The Barleycroft Post Alignments (C Evans and M Knight); 'Breaking New Ground': Land Tenure and Fieldstone Clearance during the Bronze Age (R Johnston); Tenure and Territoriality in the British Bronze Age: A Question of Varying Social and Geographical Scales (W Kitchen); A Later Bronze Age Landscape on the Avon Levels: Settlement: Settlement, Shelters and Saltmarsh at Cabot Park (M Locock); Reading Business Park: The Results of Phases 1 and 2 (A Brossler); Leaving Home in the Cornish Bronze Age: Insights into Planned Abandonment Processes (J A Nowakowski); Body Metaphors and Technologies of Transformation in the English Middle and Late Bronze Age (J Bruck); A Time and a Place for Bronze (M Barber); Firstly, Let's get Rid of Ritual (C Pendleton); Mining and Prospection for Metals in Early Bronze Age Britain - Making Claims within the Archaeological Landscape (S Timberlake); The Times, They are a Changin': Experiencing Continuity and Development in the Early Bronze Age Funerary Rituals of Southwestern Britain (M A Owoc); Round Barrows in a Circular World: Monumentalising Landscapes in Early Bronze Age Wessex (A Watson); Enduring Images? Image Production and Memory in Earlier Bronze Age Scotland (A Jones); Afterward: Back to the Bronze Age

Table of contents

• Preface
• List of Contributors
• 1 Settlement in Scotland during the second millennium BC
• 2 Place and space in the Cambridgeshire Bronze Age
• 3 Exploring Bronze Age Norfolk: Longham and Bittering
• 4 Ritual activity at the foot of the Gog Magog Hills, Cambridge
• 5 The Bronze Age of Manchester Airport: Runway 2
• 6 Place and memory in Bronze Age Wessex
• 7 Bronze Age agricultural intensification in the Thames Valley and Estuary
• 8 The ‘community of builders’: the Barleycroft post alignments
• 9 ‘Breaking new ground’: land tenure and fieldstone clearance during the Bronze Age
• 10 Tenure and territoriality in the British Bronze Age: a question of varying social and geographic scales?
• 11 A Later Bronze Age landscape on the Avon Levels: settlement, shelters and saltmarsh at Cabot Park
• 12 Reading Business Park: the results of phases 1 and 2
• 13 Leaving home in the Cornish Bronze Age: insights into planned abandonment processes
• 14 Body metaphors and technologies of transformation in the English Middle and Late Bronze Age
• 15 A time and a place for bronze
• 16 Firstly, let’s get rid of ritual
• 17 Mining and prospection for metals in Early Bronze Age Britain – making claims within the archaeological landscape
• 18 The times, they are a changin’: experiencing continuity and development in the Early Bronze Age funerary rituals of southwestern Britain
• 19 Round barrows in a circular world: monumentalising landscapes in Early Bronze Age Wessex
• 20 Enduring Images? Image production and memory in Earlier Bronze Age Scotland
• Afterword: Back to the Bronze Age
• Cover