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This book studies current approaches to the archaeology of mountainous landscapes, presenting research results from different scientific contexts. To discuss these issues, and to study different aspects of human activity in the mountains and adjacent regions it incorporates archaeological, botanical, zooarchaeological and ethnological information.

Neolithic period. --- Mountains --- Archaeological surveying. --- Civilization.

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Neolithic Britain is an up to date, concise introduction to the period of British prehistory from c. 4000-2200 BCE, covering key material and social developments, and reflecting on the nature of cultural practices, tradition, genealogy, and society across nearly two millennia.

Antiquities. --- Neolithic period --- Neolithic period. --- Prehistoric peoples --- Prehistoric peoples. --- Great Britain --- Great Britain. --- Antiquities.

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"During the mid-third millennium BC, people across Europe started using an international suite of novel material culture including early metalwork and distinctive ceramics known as Beakers. The nature and social significance of this phenomenon, as well as the reasons for its rapid and widespread transmission have been much debated. The adoption of these new ideas and objects in Ireland, Europe's westernmost island, provdes a highly suitable case study in which to investigate these issues. While many Beaker-related stone and metal artefacts were previously known from Ireland, a decade of intensive developer-led excavations (1997-2007) resulted in an exponential increase in discoveries of Beaker pottery within apparent settlement contexts across the island. This scenario is radically different from Europe where these objects are found with Beakers in funerary settings, stereotypically with single burials. Instead, these new international ideas, objects and practices played an important role in enabling people in Ireland to perform and negotiate thier personal and group identities by using this new suite of object to frame and maintain their social relations with other groups across Europe"--Back cover. Using an innovative approach, this book interlinks the study of the pottery and various object types (that have traditionally been studied in siolation) with their context of discovery and depositional treatment to characterise social practices within settlements, funerary monuments, ceremonial settings and natural places. These characterisations deliver rich new understandings of this period which reveal a much more nuanced narrative for this international phenomenon. Significantly, this integrated regional study reveals that the various Beaker-related objects found in Ireland were all deposited during a series of highly structured and rule-bound activities which were strongly influenced by pre-existing Irish traditions. This is a departure from previous interpretations which incorrectly attributed the adoption of Beakers to large-scale immigration or a prestige goods economy.

Beaker cultures --- Ireland --- History --- Bronze age --- Neolithic period

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Neolithic period --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Bracelets --- Jewelry, Prehistoric --- Stone carving --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Antiquities. --- Excavations (Archaeology). --- Neolithic period. --- Iberian Peninsula --- Europe

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"The significant body of stone and flint axe-heads imported into Britain from the Continent has been poorly understood, overlooked and undervalued in Neolithic studies, particularly over the past half century. It is proposed, in this study, that the cause is a bias of British Neolithic scholarship against the invasion hypothesis and diffusionist model, and it is sought therefore to re-assess the significance accorded to these objects. The aim is to redress the imbalance by re-focusing on the material, establishing a secure evidence base, and exploring the probable conditions in which these often distinctive items made their way to Britain. The narrative presented here rests upon the argument that imported axe-heads came into what is today called Britain as objects of considerable significance. Specifically, they were items of high symbolic value that played a crucial role in fostering particular ways of thinking about, and addressing, social identity in the Neolithic period. These issues are the context for the study, whose main objectives are the close and detailed cataloguing of relevant material, and a documentation of the investigative work needed to establish the credentials of each artefact."--

Neolithic period --- Axes --- Tools --- Great Britain --- Antiquities. --- Axes, Prehistoric --- Civilization, Ancient --- Civilization --- Axes, Prehistoric - Great Britain --- Neolithic period - Great Britain --- Great Britain - Civilization