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This next title in our new Reflections series celebrates the academic career of leading British prehistorian Alex Gibson as seen through his many contributions to collected works and monographs published by Oxbow Books. In collaboration with the author, we have selected papers that reflect some of the major themes that have been the subject of his long-term research. Alex has devoted decades of research to the analysis and understanding of prehistoric pottery, especially Neolithic and Beaker ceramics. He is particularly concerned to look beyond the pots themselves to examine all aspects of production, distribution, chronology and depositional contexts of recovery, taking an holistic approach to interpretation of both the functional and social role of early ceramics and their relationships with settlement, funerary and ceremonial structures and events. Chapters also explore Alex's major contributions to the study of Neolithic barrows, timber circles and palisaded enclosures and the ever-elusive evidence for Beaker associated settlement. In these papers we see demonstrated the breadth and development of some of Alex's key interests and most influential ideas that continue to inspire scholars and underpin our understanding of material culture in prehistory. Includes an introduction by the author.
Contents
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Editorial note
Preface
1. Introduction
2. All fired up: ceramic technology (from British Pottery: The First 3000 Years. 2024)
3. First impressions: a review of Peterborough Ware in Wales (from I. Kinnes and G. Varndell (eds), Unbaked Urns of Rudely Shape. Essays on British and Irish Pottery for Ian Longworth. 1995)
4. The Beaker pottery (from C. Evans, G. Appleby and S. Lucy (eds), Lives in Land. Mucking Excavations by Margaret and Tom Jones 1965-1978. 2015)
5. Postscript to Neolithic Impressed and Related Wares (from A. Barclay and A. Gibson (eds), Neolithic Impressed and Related Wares in Britain and Ireland. 2025)
6. Postscript to British Pottery (from British Pottery: The First 3000 Years. 2024)
7. Grooved Ware and timber circles (from R. Cleal and A. MacSween (eds), Grooved Ware in Britain and Ireland. 1999)
8. Cursus and possible cursus monuments in Wales: avenues for future research (or roads to nowhere?) (from A. Barclay and J. Harding (eds), Pathways and Ceremonies: The Cursus Monuments of Britain and Ireland. 1999)
9. Recent work on the Neolithic round barrows of the Upper Great Wold Valley, Yorkshire (from J. Leary, T. Darvill and D. Field (eds) Round Mounds and Monumentality in the British Neolithic and Beyond. 2010)
10. The Beaker funerary tradition in Britain in the context of Neolithic and Bronze Age practices (from M. Parker Pearson, A. Sheridan, M. Jay, A. Chamberlain and J. Evans (eds), The Beaker People: Isotopes, Mobility and Diet in Prehistoric Britain. 2019)
11. Where have all the houses gone? Or times they are a changin' (from A.M. Gibson (ed.), Bell Beaker Settlement of Europe: The Bell Beaker Phenomenon from a Domestic Perspective. 2019)
12. What do we mean by Neolithic Settlement? Some approaches 10 years on (from I. Armit, E. Murphy, E. Nelis and D. Simpson (eds), Neolithic Settlement in Ireland and Western Britain. 2003)
13. The later Neolithic structures at Trelyastan, Powys, Wales: ten years on (from T. Darvill and J. Thomas (eds), Neolithic Houses in Northwest Europe and Beyond. 2003)
14. Beaker domestic architecture in Britain and Ireland (from A.M. Gibson (ed.), Bell Beaker Settlement of Europe: The Bell Beaker Phenomenon from a Domestic Perspective. 2019)
