Plants in neolithic Britain and beyond /

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Imprint:Oxford : Oxbow, c2000.
Description:xiv, 210 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; 5
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4400810
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Other authors / contributors:Fairbairn, Andrew S.
ISBN:1842170279
Notes:Bibliography: p. 187-201.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Bringing plants into the taskscape / Alasdair Whittle
  • 2. High resolution mapping of Neolithic and Bronze Age chalkland landscapes and landuse: The combination of multiple palaeoenvironmental analyses and topographic modelling / Michael J. Allen
  • 3. Coleopteran evidence for the Elm Decline, Neolithic activity in woodland, clearance and the use of the landscape / Mark A. Robinson
  • 4. Plants by proxy: Plant resources on a Neolithic crannog as indicated by insect remains / Clive Warsop
  • 5. Foodplain vegetation history: Clearings as potential ritual spaces? / Anthony G. Brown
  • 6. The emperor's new garden: Woodland, trees, and people in the Neolithic of southern Britain / Phil Austin
  • 7. Evaluating the importance of cultivation and collecting in Neolithic Britain / Glynis Jones
  • 8. Further considerations of Neolithic charred cereals, fruit and nuts / Mark A. Robinson
  • 9. Revising the wheat crops of Neolithic Britain / Frances S. McLaren
  • 10. The Neolithization of the Netherlands: Two ways, one result / Corrie Bakels
  • 11. On the spread of plant crops across Neolithic Britain, with special reference to southern England / Andrew S. Fairbairn
  • 12. Human consumption of plant foods in the British Neolithic: Direct evidence from bone stable isotopes / Michael P. Richards
  • 13. Neolithic ale: Barley as a source of malt sugars for fermentation / Merryn Dineley and Graham Dineley
  • 14. Plants as the raw materials for crafts / Linda Hurcombe
  • 15. The altering eye: Reconstructing archaeobotary / John Swogger.