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Author : Steve Preston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956197436
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (974 download)
Download or read book Settlement and Landscape Archaeology in the Middle Thames Valley written by Steve Preston and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Framework Archaeology
Publisher : Wessex Archeology
ISBN 13 : 9780955451928
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Landscape Evolution in the Middle Thames Valley written by Framework Archaeology and published by Wessex Archeology. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The construction of an additional passenger terminal (Terminal 5) at Heathrow Airport was preceded by one the largest archaeological investigations ever undertaken in the UK. The previous volume revealed the results of earlier phases of work in 1996 to 2000, while this volume presents a complete account of all excavations up to 2007. The earliest evidence for human activity revealed in the Terminal 5 excavations related to hunter-gatherers in the 7th or 6th millennia BC. By the end of the 4th millennium BC. The landscape had been transformed by a series of major cursus monuments, which were part of a significant ceremonial centre. Further changes by the early 2nd millennium BC resulted in the first archaeologically detectable settlements, fields and trackways. Major elements of this Bronze Age agricultural landscape persisted right up to the medieval period. A nucleated settlement of Middle Iron Age date remained as a focus of occupation right through into the later Roman period. There is no evidence for post-Roman continuity, although the remains of a dispersed early Saxon settlement were revealed further to the north-west. Extensive medieval and post-medieval activity was found across much of the excavated area, largely comprising field systems and agricultural buildings. The character of the Heathrow landscape remained predominantly rural well into the 20th century. As with 1, this book and accompany CD-Rom are designed to provide the reader with an accessible interpretation of the findings, while also allowing a more detailed exploration of the excavation achive.
Author : Wendy A. Morrison
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443885584
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Complex Assemblages, Complex Social Structures written by Wendy A. Morrison and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late Iron Age and Early Roman Britain has often been homogenised by models that focus on the resistance/assimilation dichotomy during the period of transition. Complex Assemblages examines the rural settlements of this period through the lens of Cultural Theory in order to tease out the more nuanced and diverse human landscape that the material suggests. This approach develops new ways of thinking about the variability observed in rural settlements from the end of the Middle Iron Age (MIA) to the early 2nd century AD; the selected study area is the Upper and Middle Thames Valley. This book uses the grid/group designations of Mary Douglas’ Cultural Theory as a tool to produce a more multifaceted picture of the period, exploring the assemblages of these rural settlements to understand the nature of the socio-political structures of the region, beyond the anonymity of tribal affiliation and the faceless economic dichotomy of high and low status.
Author : Stuart Foreman
Publisher : Oxford University School of Archaeology
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gathering the People, Settling the Land written by Stuart Foreman and published by Oxford University School of Archaeology. This book was released on 2002 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CD-ROM contains: Project background and local area information -- Site specific information -- Specialist reports.
Author : Paul Booth
Publisher : Oxford University School of Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9780954962753
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (627 download)
Download or read book The Thames Through Time written by Paul Booth and published by Oxford University School of Archaeology. This book was released on 2007 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thames Valley offers one of the richest resources of archaeological data in the country. This volume providesd a detailed overview of the late Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods in the Upper and Middle Thames Valley, from the source of the river in Gloucestershire to the start of the tidal zone at Teddington Lock. Following a thematic structure, it offers an up to date account of the changing environment of the valley, evolving settlement patterns, the identity, beliefs and culture of the valley's inhabitants, their agriculture and industry, and the archaeology of power and politics in the region. Much of the evidence has been recovered during extensive gravel quarrying.
Author : David Miles
Publisher : Oxford Univ School of Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9780947816742
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Iron Age and Roman Settlement in the Upper Thames Valley written by David Miles and published by Oxford Univ School of Archaeology. This book was released on 2007 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cotswold Water Park Project is a landscape study centred upon parts of the Upper Thames Valley within what is now the Cotswold Water Park. The report is based upon four key excavated rural settlements, the most extensive being that at Claydon Pike, which dated primarily from the middle Iron Age to the late Roman period. A number of middle Saxon burials were also found. The other Water Park settlements dated to the late Iron Age-Roman period and the 2nd to 3rd century AD. The report has incorporated the results of these excavations into a wider synthesis of landscape development in the region, including aspects of material culture, environment and the economy.
Author : T. G. Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Prehistoric Landscape and Iron Age Enclosed Settlement at Mingies Ditch, Hardwick-with-Yelford, Oxon written by T. G. Allen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1977-1978 excavation of the Middle Iron Age enclosure at Mingies Ditch and the prehistoric evidence from the 1980 excavation of Smithfield, the adjoining field. It includes a 90-page technical appendix of figures and tables.
Author : George Lambrick
Publisher : Thames Valley Landscapes Monog
ISBN 13 : 9780954962791
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (627 download)
Download or read book The Thames Through Time written by George Lambrick and published by Thames Valley Landscapes Monog. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In common with other volumes in the Thames Through Time series, this account of the Thames Valley in the millennium and a half before the Roman conquest seeks to examine change in human society from a thematic point of view. The geographical and chronological framework for this volume is established in Chapters 1 and 2, but thereafter we have tried to get away from the traditional, somewhat artificial pigeon-holes of 'periods' 'ages' 'eras' and 'phases' to look much harder at how change in human society actually works. In a period when the 20th century has come to dominate secondary school history and much popular TV, the notion that the first foundations of modern society can be traced back more than 3000 years may seem a rather surprising proposition. But some fundamental patterns of settlement and landuse, political boundaries, human impact on the environment, and even the specific use and form of a few places can be traced back to late prehistoric times despite millennia of subsequent change - even though otherwise we may now have very little in common with those remote ancestors. Exploring these issues on a thematic basis should help us to gain a better understanding of how human society evolves and also of how people have altered their natural environment, providing a better long term perspective on what we are doing to the planet.
Author : Gill Hey
Publisher : Thames Valley Landscapes Monog
ISBN 13 : 9781905905379
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Yarnton written by Gill Hey and published by Thames Valley Landscapes Monog. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich prehistoric landscape was unexpectedly revealed on the Thames floodplain during investigations in advance of gravel extraction in the parishes of Yarnton and Cassington. This fascinating study examines this 2500-year settlement history and its changing landscape context on the gravel islands, silted up river channels and adjacent gravel terrace. The strength of the narrative derives from the longevity of occupation, but also the ability to combine and compare a suite of evidence related to house construction, burial practices, pit digging, craft activity, farming strategies, and interaction and exchange with nearby and distant communities. The earliest evidence for more than transient occupation was the construction of a substantial, rectangular post-built house at the beginning of the Neolithic (c 3800 cal BC); traces of midden activity, pit digging and cremation burial were also found, as well as a small, circular early Neolithic house dated to c 3600 cal BC. The volume then traces the changing character of settlement through a period of frequent but short-lived occupation events in the middle and late Neolithic and the early Bronze Age, a time when ceremonial monuments were constructed and burials were made, to more permanent settlement in the early to middle Bronze Age. Later Bronze Age settlement was focused on small circular and oval houses surrounded by evidence for domestic activity, perhaps representing single generation households.
Author : Timothy Gates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Middle Thames Valley written by Timothy Gates and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Rippon
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783276800
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape written by Stephen Rippon and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All communities have a strong sense of identity with the area in which they live, which for England in the early medieval period manifested itself in a series of territorial entities, ranging from large kingdoms down to small districts known as pagi or regiones. This book investigates these small early folk territories, and the way that they evolved into the administrative units recorded in Domesday, across an entire kingdom - that of the East Saxons (broadly speaking, what is now Essex, Middlesex, most of Hertfordshire, and south Suffolk). A wide range of evidence is drawn upon, including archaeology, written documents, place-names and the early cartographic sources. The book looks in particular at the relationship between Saxon immigrants and the native British population, and argues that initially these ethnic groups occupied different parts of the landscape, until a dynasty which assumed an Anglo-Saxon identity achieved political ascendency (its members included the so-called "Prittlewell Prince", buried with spectacular grave-good in Prittlewell, near Southend-on- Sea in southern Essex). Other significant places discussed include London, the seat of the first East Saxon bishopric, the possible royal vills at Wicken Bonhunt near Saffron Walden and Maldon, and St Peter's Chapel at Bradwell-on-Sea, one of the most important surviving churches from the early Christian period.
Author : Kelly Powell
Publisher : Thames Valley Landscapes Monog
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Evolution of a Farming Community in the Upper Thames Valley written by Kelly Powell and published by Thames Valley Landscapes Monog. This book was released on 2010 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the results of a series of excavations undertaken at colswold Community from 1999 to 2008. --Book Jacket.
Author : Duncan Wright
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784911267
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Middle Saxon' Settlement and Society: The Changing Rural Communities of Central and Eastern England written by Duncan Wright and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-05-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the experiences of rural communities who lived between the seventh and ninth centuries in central and eastern England. Combining archaeology with documentary, place-name and topographic evidences, it provides unique insight into social, economic and political conditions in 'Middle Saxon' England.
Author : Gill Hey
Publisher : Thames Valley Landscapes Monog
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Yarnton written by Gill Hey and published by Thames Valley Landscapes Monog. This book was released on 2004 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the development of Yarnton and its surrounds from early Anglo-Saxon farmsteads to the rise of the medieval village and beyond.
Author : Gill Hey
Publisher : Oxford Archaeology Monograph
ISBN 13 : 9781905905218
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Yarnton written by Gill Hey and published by Oxford Archaeology Monograph. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yarnton landscape has witnessed a long history of topographic and vegetational change linked to human activity. Settlements were occupied throughout the Iron Age and Roman periods.
Author : Andrew Sargent
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445612011
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Thames written by Andrew Sargent and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 500,000 years in the life of a river.
Author : Joanna Bruck
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785705369
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Bronze Age Landscapes written by Joanna Bruck and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
