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Prehistoric and Roman landscapes

Title
Prehistoric and Roman landscapes / edited by Andrew Fleming and Richard Hingley.
Publication
Bollington, Macclesfield : Windgather Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Fleming, Andrew J.
  • Hingley, Richard.
Description
xvii, 196 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Summary
Features essays that 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.
Series Statement
Landscape history after Hoskins ; v. 1
Uniform Title
Landscape history after Hoskins ; v. 1.
Subject
  • Prehistoric archaeology
  • Historical geography
  • Historische Geografie
  • Umweltarchäologie
  • Vor- und Frühgeschichte
  • Great Britain > Historical geography > Congresses
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • A selection of papers presented from the conference called W.G. Hoskins and the Making of the British Landscape, held at the University of Leicester on 7-10 July 2005.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-188) and index.
Contents
1955 and all that : prehistoric landscapes in The making / Andrew Fleming -- A new downland prehistory : long-term environmental change on the southern English chalklands / Michael J. Allen and Rob Scaife -- Making strange : monuments and the creation of the earlier prehistoric landscape / Richard Bradley -- Geophysical survey and the emergence of underground archaelogical landscpaes : the heart of neolithic Orkney world heritage site / Nick Card [and others] -- 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 Schrüfer-Kolb -- Roman towns, Roman landscapes : the cultural terrain of town and country in the Roman period / Steven Willis.
ISBN
  • 9781905119172
  • 1905119178
LCCN
2009293776
OCLC
  • ocn156832406
  • 156832406
  • SCSB-14138084
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library