Land, Power and Prestige Bronze Age Field Systems in Southern England
A major phase of economic expansion occurred in southern England during the second and early first millennium BC, accompanied by a fundamental shift in regional power and wealth towards the eastern lowlands. This book offers a synthesis of available data on Bronze Age lowland field systems in Englan...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Havertown :
Oxbow Books, Limited
2007.
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| Colección: | --For dummies
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009631075506719 |
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- Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; LIST OF PLATES; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABSTRACT; RÉSUMÉ; ZUSAMMENFASSUNG; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1 Living on the edge; 1.2 Southern England and the Atlantic economy; 1.3 The political ascendancy of the Lowlands of Southern England; 1.4 Political economies and conspicuous production; 1.5 Prehistoric field systems in Southern England: a century of research; 1.6 Research methodology; 1.7 Developer-funding and landscape exploration; 1.8 Chronology; CHAPTER 2. THE RANGE OF EVIDENCE; 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Field layout2.3 Boundary construction; 2.4 Stock handling features; 2.5 Settlement evidence; 2.6 Special deposits in field and settlement boundaries; 2.7 Environmental evidence; 2.8 Evidence of counter claims in land ownership; CHAPTER 3. THE STRAITS OF DOVER AND THE THAMES ESTUARY; 3.1 The search; 3.2 Emerging patterns in the SE corner; 3.3 Social inequality; 3.4 Mucking to South Hornchurch; 3.5 Contacts with afar; 3.6 Conclusion; CHAPTER 4. THE LONDON BASIN; 4.1 Into the heart of things; 4.2 Rolling down the Lea; 4.3 Lambeth, Southwark and Bermondsey; 4.4 The River Wandle floodplain. 4.5 The West of London gravel terraces4.6 Mind the gap; CHAPTER 5. THE UPPER THAMES VALLEY; 5.1 Worlds apart; 5.2 The new frontier; 5.3 A polar reversal: the upper reaches of the Thames in Gloucestershire and North Wiltshire; 5.4 Reflections on the Thames; CHAPTER 6. THE SUSSEX COAST, DOWNLANDS AND WEALD; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2 The Weald; 6.3 The Sussex Coastal Plain; 6.4 The South Downs; CHAPTER 7. THE SOLENT BASIN; 7.1 Solent Lowlands; 7.2 Southampton Waters; 7.3 The New Forest; 7.4 Christchurch Harbour and Hengistbury Head; 7.5 Poole Harbour: Corfe, Frome and Piddle; 7.6 Dorchester. 7.7 Over the rim of the basin7.8 Basin reflections; CHAPTER 8. THE WEST COUNTRY; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Devon-off the Moors; 8.3 Cornwall; 8.4 St George's Channel towards Bristol; CHAPTER 9. THE NORTH SEA COAST; 9.1 The Eastern Seaboard; 9.2 The Lower Blackwater; 9.3 Inland from the Blackwater Estuary; 9.4 Colchester, Clacton and Tendring; 9.5 Orwell and Deben; 9.6 Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth; 9.7 Land division north of the Wash to the Scottish borders; 9.8 Changing times: the Early Iron Age along the North Sea coast; CHAPTER 10. INTO THE FENS; 10.1 Fenland research; 10.2 Northern Fens. 10.3 The Welland10.4 The River Nene and Flag Fen Basin; 10.5 The Great Ouse; 10.6 River Cam; 10.7 River Snail-River Lark; 10.8 Little Ouse River; CHAPTER 11. THE SEVERN AND AVON VALES; 11.1 From Bredon to the Breiddin; 11.2 The Severn Vale; 11.3 The Vale of Evesham and the Avon; 11.4 Gloucestershire north of the Chilterns; CHAPTER 12. PATTERNS IN THE LAND; 12.1 Economic growth in the second and early first millennium BC; 12.2 How representative are these data?; 12.3 Where and when?; 12.4 Metal concentrations and land divisions; 12.5 Farming intensification?; 12.6 Social implications.
