DEFINITIONS, ISSUES and DEBATE
1. Case and Place for the British Chalcolithic (STUART NEEDHAM)
2. Drawing Boundaries and Building Models: investigating the
concept of the ‘Chalcolithic frontier’ in northwest Europe
(BENJAMIN W. ROBERTS and CATHERINE FRIEMAN)
3. A Rumsfeld Reality Check: what we know, what we don’t know and
what we don’t know we don’t know about the Chalcolithic in Britain
and Ireland (ALISON SHERIDAN)
4. Before 29Cu became copper: tracing the recognition and invention
of metalleity in Britain and Ireland during the third millennium BC
(PETER BRAY)
CONTINENTAL PERSPECTIVES
5. The importance of being insular: Britain and Ireland in their
North-West European context during the 3rd millennium BC (MARC
VANDER LINDEN)
6. Sense and non-sense of the term ‘Chalcolithic’ (MARTIN
BARTELHEIM and RAIKO KRAUSS)
7. Growth and expansion; social, economic and ideological
structures in the European Chalcolithic (VOLKER HEYD)
8. Dutchmen on the Move? A discussion of the adoption of the Beaker
package (HARRY FOKKENS)
9. Working copper in the Chalcolithic; a long term perspective on
the development of metallurgical knowledge in Central Europe and
the Carpathian Basin (TOBIAS KIENLIN)
AROUND BRITAIN & IRELAND
10. Chronology, corpses, copper and lithics (FRANCES HEALY)
11. Is there a Scottish Chalcolithic? (IAN SHEPHERD† (completed by
Alison Sheridan and Lekky) )
12. A date with the Chalcolithic in Wales; a review of radiocarbon
determinations for the period 2450- 2100 BC (STEVE BURROW)
13. Searching for the Chalcolithic: continuity and change in the
Irish Final Neolithic/Early Bronze Age (NEIL CARLIN and JOANNA
BRÜCK)
14. The Chalcolithic in Ireland; a chronological and cultural
framework (WILLIAM O’BRIEN)
PEOPLE
15. The Beaker People Project: an interim report on the progress of
the isotopic analysis of the organic skeletal material (MANDY JAY,
MIKE PARKER PEARSON, MIKE RICHARDS, OLAF NEHLICH, JANET MONTGOMERY,
ANDREW CHAMBERLAIN, and ALISON SHERIDAN)
16. The Regionality of Beakers and Bodies in the Chalcolithic of
North-East Scotland (NEIL CURTIS and NEIL WILKIN)
17. Stepping out together: men, women and their Beakers in time and
space (ALEXANDRA SHEPHERD)
ECONOMY, LANDSCAPES and MONUMENTS
18. Beaker land-use, animals and economy – a chronological changing
point? (MICHAEL J. ALLEN and MARK MALTBY)
19. The present dead: the making of past and future landscapes in
the British ‘Chalcolithic’ (PAUL GARWOOD)
20. The Revenge of the Native: monuments, material culture and
burial and other practices in the third quarter of the 3rd
millennium BC in Wessex (ROSAMUND CLEAL and JOSHUA POLLARD)
Index
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1. Case and Place for the British Chalcolithic (STUART NEEDHAM)
Appendix 1.1: Key Chalcolithic grave groups
Appendix 1.2: Selected radiocarbon dated ceremonial sites mentioned
in the text
Bibliography
10. Chronology, corpses, copper and lithics (FRANCES HEALY)
Table 10.4 Radiocarbon measurements used in models and/or cited in
the text, in laboratory number order
Figures 10.3a, 10.3b. 10.3c, 10.3d, 10.3e, 10.5b, 10.5c, 10.5d,
10.5e, 10.5f, 10.5g, and 10.5i
Bibliography
15. The Beaker People Project: an interim report on the progress of
the isotopic analysis of the organic skeletal material. (MANDY JAY,
MIKE PARKER PEARSON, MIKE RICHARDS, OLAF NEHLICH, JANET MONTGOMERY,
ANDREW CHAMBERLAIN, and ALISON SHERIDAN)
Table 15.1: List of individuals included in the Beaker People
Project for isotope analysis
16. The Regionality of Beakers and Bodies in the Chalcolithic of
North-East Scotland (NEIL CURTIS and NEIL WILKIN)
Appendix 2: Figures 16.9, 16.10, 16.11 and 16.12
17. Stepping out together: men, women and their Beakers in time and
space. (ALEXANDRA SHEPHERD)
Case studies
Borrowstone Cists 1 & 2
Fig 17.11
Borrowstone Cists 4, 5 & 6
Broomhend of Crichie cist 2
Broomhend of Crichie cist 1
Garton Slack 163
Painsthorpe Wold 4
Huggate and Warter Wold 254
Michael J. Allen is proprietor of AEA Allen Environmental Archaeology and is one of the UK’s leading environmental archaeologists, specialising in geoarchaeology (particularly the analysis of hillwash and colluvium), land snail analysis, prehistoric landscape reconstruction and the management of environmental archaeological projects. Michael J. Allen is proprietor of AEA Allen Environmental Archaeology and is one of the UK’s leading environmental archaeologists, specialising in geoarchaeology (particularly the analysis of hillwash and colluvium), land snail analysis, prehistoric landscape reconstruction and the management of environmental archaeological projects. Alison Sheridan is emerita Principal Curator of Early Prehistory with National Museums Scotland and specialises in British and Irish Neolithic pottery and in the Neolithic period in this archipelago more generally.
...this is one of the most stimulating volumes on British
prehistory to have been published for a considerable time. The
arguments presented are constructive and substantial, and whilst in
many cases the conclusions drawn within individual chapters
conflict with one another, this ensures an engaging and
thought-provoking read.
*The Archaeological Journal*
...it is among the most stimulating of volumes on British
prehistory to hit the shelves for a considerable time.
*The Prehistoric Society*
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