- 210 pages
- English
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Plants in Neolithic Britain and Beyond
About this book
Plant-centred issues are fundamental in the definitions and explanations of the Neolithic as a phenomenon.The meeting of the Neolithic Studies Group from which this volume developed aimed to provide a forum for the wide range of approaches now applied to Neolithic archaeobotany at site and landscape scales of resolution.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Preface and acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- 1 Bringing plants into the taskscape
- 2 High resolution mapping of Neolithic and Bronze Age chalkland landscapes and landuse: The combination of multiple palaeoenvironmental analyses and topgraphic modelling
- 3 Coleopteran evidence for the Elm Decline, Neolithic activity in woodland, clearance and the use of the landscape
- 4 Plants by proxy: Plant resources on a Neolithic crannog as indicated by insect remains
- 5 Floodplain vegetation history: Clearings as potential ritual spaces?
- 6 The emperor's new garden: Woodland, trees, and people in the Neolithic of southern Britain
- 7 Evaluating the importance of cultivation and collecting in Neolithic Britain
- 8 Further considerations of Neolithic charred cereals, fruit and nuts
- 9 Revising the wheat crops of Neolithic Britain
- 10 The Neolithization of the Netherlands: Two ways, one result
- 11 On the spread of plant crops across Neolithic Britain, with special reference to southern England
- 12 Human consumption of plant foods in the British Neolithic: Direct evidence from bone stable isotopes
- 13 Neolithic ale: Barley as a source of malt sugars for fermentation
- 14 Plants as the raw materials for crafts
- 15 The altering eye: Reconstructing archaeobotany
- Bibliography