Plants in Neolithic Britain and Beyond

List of contents

Bringing plants into the taskscape (Alasdair Whittle); High resolution mapping of Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes and landuse (Michael J. Allen); Coleopteran evidence for the elm decline, Neolithic activity in woodland, clearance and the use of the landscape (Mark Robinson); Plant resources on a Neolithic crannog as indicated by insect remains (Clive Warsop); Floodplain vegetation history: clearings as potential ritual spaces? (Anthony G. Brown); Woodland, trees, and people in the Neolithic of southern Britain (Phil Austin); Evaluating the importance of cultivation and collecting in Neolithic Britain (Glynis Jones); Further considerations of Neolithic charred cereals, fruits and nuts (Mark Robinson); Revising the wheat crops of Neolithic Britain (Frances McLaren); The Neolithization of the Netherlands (Corrie Bakels); On the spread of plant crops across Neolithic Britain, with special reference to southern England (Andrew Fairbairn); Human consumption of plant foods in the British Neolithic (Michael P. Richards); Neolithic ale: Barley as a source of malt sugars for fermentation (Mervyn Dineley and Graham Dineley); Plant as the raw materials for cults (Linda Hurcombe); The altering eye: reconstructing archaeobotany (John Swogger).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew S. Fairbairn
• Assisted by: Alistair Barclay (Editor), Andrew S. Fairbairn (Editor)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2000
• EAN: 9781842170274
• ISBN: 978-1-84217-027-4
• No. of pages: 210
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 239 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Neolithic Studies Group Semina; Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers; Neolithic Studies Group Semina
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity