Creating society and constructing the past : social change in the Thames Valley from the Late Bronze Age to the Middle Iron Age /
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| Author / Creator: | Davies, Alex (Alexander John), author. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford, UK : BAR Publishing, 2018. ©2018 |
| Description: | xviii, 275 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 30 cm Appendices 1 electronic text (iii pages, pages 266-466) : PDF file; illustrations, color maps, plans. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | BAR British series ; 637 BAR British series ; 637. |
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| Format: | Map Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11667426 |
| Summary: | This book gives a new account of society and social change in the upper and middle Thames Valley from the Late Bronze Age to Middle Iron Age, 1150-100 BC. A model is developed from social anthropological case studies setting out expectations on how societies are structured based on certain material manifestations. Patterns are found within the wide range of types of evidence that are integrated and synthesised. This includes settlements, house forms, metalwork, pottery, human and animal remains, monuments, landscape boundaries and special deposits. The main interpretation offered is that Late Bronze Age societies were fluid and unstructured by either social status differences or lineage identities, whereas Early Iron Age communities were more concerned with ancestral genealogy and inter-generational inheritance. By the Middle Iron Age, communal aspects of ritual practice and material practice were largely replaced by local and household concerns in which smaller groups displayed increasing autonomy from each other. |
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| Item Description: | "With additional material online"--Front cover. Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Cardiff University), which was presented under title: Social organisation in the Upper and Middle Thames Valley from the Late Bronze Age to the Middle Iron Age. |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 275 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 30 cm 1 electronic text (iii pages, pages 266-466) : PDF file; illustrations, color maps, plans. |
| Format: | Electronic text of appendices accessible via Internet. PDF file requires the Adobe Reader or similar to view. Appendices available online and can be accessed at http://www.barpublishing.com/additional-downloads.html by typing B637 at browser search box or scrolling to find author's name. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-275). |
| ISBN: | 1407316060 9781407316062 |