Full Description
As the essays in this book demonstrate, Prehistoric and Romano-British landscape studies have come a long way since Hoskins, whose work reflected the prevailing 'Celtic' ethnological narrative of Britain before the medieval period. The contributors present a stimulating survey of the subject as it is in the early twenty-first century, and provide some sense of a research frontier where new conceptualisations of 'otherness' and new research techniques are transforming our understanding.
Contents
1955 and all thatFleming); A new downland prehistory: long term environmental change on the southern English chalklands (Michael J Allen & Rob Scaife);Making strange: monuments and the creation of the earlier prehistoric landscape (Richard Bradley); Geophysical survey and the emergence of underground archaeological landscapes: the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site (Nick Card, John Gater, Chris Gaffney & Emma Wood); Bronze Age field systems and the English Channel-North Sea cultural region (David Yates); Claylands revisited: the prehistory of W. G. Hoskins's Midlands Plain (Patrick Clay); Hillforts and human movement: unlocking the Iron Age landscapes of mid Wales (Toby Driver); The Roman landscape of Britain: from Hoskins to today (Richard Hingley); Beyond the economic in the Roman Fenland: reconsidering land, water, hoards and religion (Adam Rogers): What did the Romans ever do for us? Roman iron production in the East Midlands and the Forest of Dean (Irene Schrufer-Kolb); Roman towns, Roman landscapes: the cultural terrain of town and country in the Roman period (Steven Willis).
