Routledge Archaeology of Northern Europe
The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland
2nd Edition
By Vicki Cummings
April 24, 2025
The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland provides a comprehensive overview of this exciting period, covering the last few hundred years of the Mesolithic and the arrival and spread of the Neolithic up to the start of the early Beaker period: roughly 2000 years of prehistory. Drawing on the latest ...
The Mesolithic in Britain: Landscape and Society in Times of Change
1st Edition
By Chantal Conneller
November 30, 2021
The Mesolithic in Britain proposes a new division of the Mesolithic period into four parts, each with its distinct character. The Mesolithic has previously been seen as timeless, where little changed over thousands of years. This new synthesis draws on advances in scientific dating to understand ...
Formative Britain: An Archaeology of Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Century AD
1st Edition
By Martin Carver
February 04, 2019
Formative Britain presents an account of the peoples occupying the island of Britain between 400 and 1100 AD, whose ideas continue to set the political agenda today. Forty years of new archaeological research has laid bare a hive of diverse and disputatious communities of Picts, Scots, Welsh, ...
The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland
1st Edition
By Vicki Cummings
May 18, 2017
The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland provides a synthesis of this dynamic period of prehistory from the end of the Mesolithic through to the early Beaker period. Drawing on new excavations and the application of new scientific approaches to data from this period, this book considers both life and ...
The British Palaeolithic: Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World
1st Edition
By Paul Pettitt, Mark White
March 08, 2012
The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years ago) to the end of the Ice Age. Landscape and ecology form the canvas for an explicitly interpretative approach aimed at ...