Beyond the Core, Reflections on Regionality in Prehistory

edited by Andy M Jones and Graeme Kirkham

ISBN 10: 1842179896 / ISBN 13: 9781842179895

Edité par Oxbow Books, Oxford and Oakville, 2011

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Contents include: Regionality in prehistory, some thoughts from the periphery by Andy M Jones; Borders and Belonging, exploring the Neolithic of the Anglo-Welsh borderland by David Mullin; Moving on in Landscape Studies, goodbye Wessex, Hello German Bight? by David Field; Pattern, perception and preconception, recognising regionality in Scottish prehistory by Stratford Halliday; Scale and senses of belonging, thinking about regionality in the Neolithic of the Irish sea zone by Vicki Cummings; Social and geographical scale, regionality and the Cumbrian Stone Circles by Helen Evans; Islandscapes and standing stones, homogeneity and difference by Joanna Wright; The Alien Within, the forgotten sub-cultures of Early Bronze Age Wessex by Andrew Martin; The Botrea barrow group, regional identity in Early Bronze Age Cornwall by Andy M Jones; Into the west, placing Beakers within their Irish contexts by Neil Carlin; Something different at the Land's End by Graeme Kirkham; Any questions? by Richard Bradley. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. ISBN: 1842179896. ISBN/EAN: 9781842179895. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 42119011079. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

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• Titre: Beyond the Core, Reflections on Regionality in Prehistory
• Éditeur: Oxbow Books, Oxford and Oakville
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1842179896
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781842179895
• Reliure: Softcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Dust Jacket
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

This volume explores the idea of regionally-based archaeologies across the British Isles which are not necessarily defined by modern political boundaries or through comparisons with regions such as Wessex and Orkney. In the past these intensively studied areas have often been assumed to represent the 'typical' - other areas with apparently different narratives have generally been labelled 'peripheral' and their diversity and distinctiveness overlooked. Assumptions about these core-based models have been challenged, especially by archaeologists in Ireland and Scotland and to some extent Wales. In England, despite more than two decades of intensive developer-funded archaeological investigation, new regional narratives are only just beginning to emerge. The 12 contributions to the collection - based on a session at the Exeter TAG conference in 2006 - identify distinctive elements of the prehistoric archaeology of a number of discrete areas across the British Isles, from Cornwall to Scotland and south-east England to Ireland. Some also consider how archaeologically coherent regions might be defined and the associated methodological problems in approaching such definitions. Others examine the ways in which 'universal' artefact forms and monument types have been interpreted in different areas, and how different patterns of contact, with the Continent or other regions, may have affected the construction of identities.

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Andy M Jones is Principal Archaeologist with the Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Cornwall Council. He has had a long career in development controlled field archaeology with recent emphasis on the Earlier Bronze Age ceremonial monuments and barrow complexes in south-west Britain. His research interests include the Neolithic, Bronze Age periods, as well as the archaeology of the uplands and coastal areas of western Britain.