Research Catalog

Title

The harmony of symbols : the Windmill Hill causewayed enclosure, Wiltshire / by Alasdair Whittle, Joshua Pollard and Caroline Grigson ; with contributions by Janet Ambers, ... [et al.].

Author

Whittle, A. W. R.

Publication

Oxford, [England] : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : [Distributed by] D. Brown Book Co., 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Ambers, J.
• Grigson, Caroline.
• Pollard, Joshua

Description

xi, 404 p., [8 p. of plates] : ill. (some col.), maps, plans; 31 cm.

Series Statement

Cardiff studies in archaeology

Uniform Title

Cardiff studies in archaeology.

Alternative Title

Windmill Hill causewayed enclosure, Wiltshire

Subject

• Avebury (England) > Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Avebury Region
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Wiltshire
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Windmill Hill
• Megalithic monuments > Wiltshire
• Megalithic monuments > Windmill Hill
• Neolithic period > Wiltshire
• Neolithic period > Windmill Hill
• Wiltshire (England) > Antiquities
• Windmill Hill (England) > Antiquities
• Windmill Hill Site (England)

Genre/Form

Inventar.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-404).

Language (note)

• Summaries in French and German.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Radiocarbon dates -- 1. History of research and the 1988 excavations -- 2. The layout of the enclosure: earthwork and geophysical survey -- 3. The Keiller excavations -- 4. The 1988 excavations -- 5. Radiocarbon dating -- 6. Soils -- 7. Land Mollusca -- 8. Charred plant remains -- 9. The charcoal assemblages -- 10. Pollen analysis -- 11. The mammalian remains -- 12. Small vertebrate bone -- 13. Pottery -- 14. Flint -- 15. Other finds -- 16. Human remains -- 17. Interpretations -- 18. The harmony of symbols: wider meanings.

ISBN

1900188899

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library