The Prehistoric Peak

Author : Andrew Johnstone
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781446639023

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The Prehistoric Peak by Andrew Johnstone Pdf

THE PREHISTORIC PEAK is a practical guide to discovering and exploring the Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments of the Peak District, not with the intention of explaining their origins, but to encourage everyone to go and see them for themselves as they are today. After all, they are located in some of the most spectacular landscapes available to us in Britain today and make fascinating destinations for journeys that are about experiencing all the wonders of the world around us. Each site has been personally visited by the author and is described through photographs, ground plans of what can be seen today, custom maps with step-by-step, clear, concise directions on how to find each one and all the necessary GPS and OS grid references. It also includes practical advice on how to make your exploration of the Prehistoric Peak as pleasurable and safe as possible.

Author : Jenna Tolli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1725301458

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The Highest Peak by Jenna Tolli Pdf

Author : Joanna Bruck
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785705380

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Bronze Age Landscapes by Joanna Bruck Pdf

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

Author : Lorenc Bejko,Sarah P. Morris,John K. Papadopoulos,Lynne A. Schepartz
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 1178 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781938770524

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The Excavation of the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus at Lofkend, Albania by Lorenc Bejko,Sarah P. Morris,John K. Papadopoulos,Lynne A. Schepartz Pdf

The burial tumulus of Lofkend lies in one of the richest archaeological areas of Albania (ancient "Illyria"), home to a number of burial tumuli spanning the Bronze and Iron Ages of later prehistory. Some were robbed long ago, others were reused for modern burials; few were excavated under scientific conditions. Modern understanding of the pre- and protohistory of Illyria has largely been shaped by the contents of such burial mounds. What inspired the systematic exploration of Lofkend by UCLA was more than the promise of an unplundered necropolis; it was also a chance to revisit the significance of this tumulus and its fellows for the emergence of urbanism and complexity in ancient Illyria. In addition to artifacts, the recovery of surviving plant remains, bones, and other organic material contribute insights into the environmental and ecological history of the region.

Author : T. Max Friesen,Owen K. Mason
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190630874

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The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic by T. Max Friesen,Owen K. Mason Pdf

The North American Arctic was one of the last regions on Earth to be settled by humans, due to its extreme climate, limited range of resources, and remoteness from populated areas. Despite these factors, it holds a complex and lengthy history relating to Inuit, Iñupiat, Inuvialuit, Yup'ik and Aleut peoples and their ancestors. The artifacts, dwellings, and food remains of these ancient peoples are remarkably well-preserved due to cold temperatures and permafrost, allowing archaeologists to reconstruct their lifeways with great accuracy. Furthermore, the combination of modern Elders' traditional knowledge with the region's high resolution ethnographic record allows past peoples' lives to be reconstructed to a level simply not possible elsewhere. Combined, these factors yield an archaeological record of global significance--the Arctic provides ideal case studies relating to issues as diverse as the impacts of climate change on human societies, the complex process of interaction between indigenous peoples and Europeans, and the dynamic relationships between environment, economy, social organization, and ideology in hunter-gatherer societies. In the The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic, each arctic cultural tradition is described in detail, with up-to-date coverage of recent interpretations of all aspects of their lifeways. Additional chapters cover broad themes applicable to the full range of arctic cultures, such as trade, stone tool technology, ancient DNA research, and the relationship between archaeology and modern arctic communities. The resulting volume, written by the region's leading researchers, contains by far the most comprehensive coverage of arctic archaeology ever assembled.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCSD:31822008709123

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U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Bradley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317612865

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The Prehistoric Settlement of Britain by Richard Bradley Pdf

This study, first published in 1978, explores the evidence for pre-Roman settlement in Britain. Four aspects of the prehistoric economy are described by the author – colonisation and clearance; arable and pastoral farming; transhumance and nomadism; and hunting, gathering and fishing. These aspects have been brought together to formulate a structure which contains the evidence more naturally than chronological schemes that depend on assumed changes in population or technology. The book draws upon environmental evidence and recent developments in archaeological fieldwork. It also provides an extensive exploration of the published literature on the subject and the scope of the evidence. Originally conceived as an ‘ideas book’ rather than a final synthesis, the author’s intention throughout is to stimulate argument and research, and not to replace one dogma with another.

Author : John Barnatt,Bill Bevan,Mark Edmonds
Publisher : Windgather Press is
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781911188186

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An Upland Biography by John Barnatt,Bill Bevan,Mark Edmonds Pdf

Gardom's Edge is an area of gritstone upland situated on the Eastern Moors of the Derbyshire Peak District. Like other parts of the Eastern Moors, Gardom's Edge has long been renowned for the wealth of prehistoric field systems, cairns and other structures which can still be traced across the surface. Drawing on the results of original survey and excavation, An Upland Biography documents prehistoric activity across this area, exploring the changing character of occupation from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age. It also tacks back and forth between local detail and regional patterns, to better understand the broader social worlds in which Gardom's Edge was set.

Author : Ed DeWitt,Sam Rosenblum,Michael Fleischer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Geology
ISBN : OSU:32435056588072

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U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin by Ed DeWitt,Sam Rosenblum,Michael Fleischer Pdf

Author : Robert Harris
Publisher : Sigma Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1850588228

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Walks in the Ancient Peak District by Robert Harris Pdf

Contains a collection of walks visiting the well-known and hard-to-find prehistoric monuments and sites of the Peak District. Divided into four sections, this book includes - the White Peak with its familiar limestone plateau and deep-cut dales, and the high gritstone moorland of the Dark Peak, and the Western, and Eastern Moors.

Author : John L. Bintliff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Civilization, Mycenaean
ISBN : UOM:39015004174788

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Natural Environment and Human Settlement in Prehistoric Greece by John L. Bintliff Pdf

Author : Douglas P. Fry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199858996

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War, Peace, and Human Nature by Douglas P. Fry Pdf

A collection of essays from leading academics about the nature of war and the capacity for peace as applied to human nature.

Author : Robert Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351710985

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Bronze Age Worlds by Robert Johnston Pdf

Bronze Age Worlds brings a new way of thinking about kinship to the task of explaining the formation of social life in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Britain and Ireland’s diverse landscapes and societies experienced varied and profound transformations during the twenty-fifth to eighth centuries BC. People’s lives were shaped by migrations, changing beliefs about death, making and thinking with metals, and living in houses and field systems. This book offers accounts of how these processes emerged from social life, from events, places and landscapes, informed by a novel theory of kinship. Kinship was a rich and inventive sphere of culture that incorporated biological relations but was not determined by them. Kinship formed personhood and collective belonging, and associated people with nonhuman beings, things and places. The differences in kinship and kinwork across Ireland and Britain brought textures to social life and the formation of Bronze Age worlds. Bronze Age Worlds offers new perspectives to archaeologists and anthropologists interested in the place of kinship in Bronze Age societies and cultural development.

Author : John L. Bintliff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Civilization, Mycenaean
ISBN : IND:39000002970254

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Natural Environment and Human Settlement in Prehistoric Greece: Thematic and summary chapters. Regional studies by John L. Bintliff Pdf

Author : John Barnatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015028688722

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Stone Circles of the Peak by John Barnatt Pdf