London under Ground : The Archaeology of a City

Sheldon, H./ Hannigan, Lesley/ Haynes, Ian

Oxbow Books（2017/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 324 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781785707766
• DDC分類 936.21

Full Description

London's archaeology is as complex and varied as the city is today. These seventeen papers survey twenty-five years of London archaeology in the city and its environs, exploring the history of the city from prehistory to 1800 and touching on art, landscape, mortuary archaeology, roads, buildings and artefacts.

Contents

Introduction ( H Sheldon and I Haynes ); Towards the development of a settled landscape in London c.4000-1200 BC ( J Cotton ); Changing approaches to the first millennium ( N Merriman ); The Roman city ( M Hassall ); Art in Roman London ( M Henig ); Religion ( I Haynes ); Evidence from Roman London's cemeteries ( B Barber and J Hall ); Roman Southwark ( H Sheldon ); Roads, roadside settlements and their countryside ( D G Bird ); Early and middle Saxon archaeology ( R Cowie ); Late Saxon and Norman London ( J Clark ); Buildings and defences 1200-1600 ( J Schofield ); Medieval pottery ( A Vince ); Tudor and Stuart playhouses ( S Blatherwick ); Mortuary archaeology to 1800 ( V Harding ); Environmental archaeology ( J Sidell ); Archaeology of London, 1973-1997 ( R Cowie and R Densem ).