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These adaptations of four 1974 episodes of the BBC1 comedy series,
The Liver Birds, feature the two incompatible Liverpudlian girls,
Beryl and Sandra. What they have in common are a tiny flat,
boyfriend problems, and a passion for the latest fashion.
Fragmentation in Archaeology revolutionises archaeological studies
of material culture, by arguing that the deliberate physical
fragmentation of objects, and their (often structured) deposition,
lies at the core of the archaeology of the Mesolithic, Neolithic
and Copper Age of Central and Eastern Europe. John Chapman draws on
detailed evidence from the Balkans to explain such phenomena as the
mass sherd deposition in pits and the wealth of artefacts found in
the Varna cemetery to place the significance of fragmentation
within a broad anthropological context.
Fragmentation in Archaeology revolutionises archaeological studies of material culture, by arguing that the deliberate physical fragmentation of objects, and their (often structured) deposition, lies at the core of the archaeology of the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Copper Age of Central and Eastern Europe. John Chapman draws on detailed evidence from the Balkans to explain such phenomena as the mass sherd deposition in pits and the wealth of artefacts found in the Varna cemetery to place the significance of fragmentation within a broad anthropological context.
This is an Element about some of the largest sites known in
prehistoric Europe - sites so vast that they often remain
undiscussed for lack of the theoretical or methodological tools
required for their understanding. Here, the authors use a
relational, comparative approach to identify not only what made
megasites but also what made megasites so special and so large.
They have selected a sample of megasites in each major period of
prehistory - Neolithic, Copper, Bronze and Iron Ages - with a
detailed examination of a single representative megasite for each
period. The relational approach makes explicit comparisons between
smaller, more 'normal' sites and the megasites using six criteria -
scale, temporality, deposition / monumentality, formal open spaces,
performance and congregational catchment. The authors argue that
many of the largest European prehistoric megasites were
congregational places.
This memoir is not really about research questions or main
conclusions. It tells the story of a boy growing up in Plymouth,
Devon, getting excited about archaeology after visits to mainland
Greece and Crete, trying to get into Greek archaeology and
re-locating northwards into the Balkans, where he spent a career in
prehistoric research. The chapters alternate between
museum/university experiences and my major research projects. The
experiences of working in that part of the world as the Third
Balkan War was starting were dramatic and a history-style chapter
is devoted to these beginnings. The Balkan prehistoric club in the
west is a very small and select group so there is an intrinsic
interest about how westerners did their archaeology there and how
they interacted with local colleagues. There is also a sense of a
'colonial relationship' between westerners knowledgeable about
theory and method, with well-stocked libraries and large research
grants and easterners with little of the above. On a basic level,
the memoir presents stories with implications for east - west
relationships that will soon disappear from living memory. The ways
that research projects originated and developed are strongly
featured and there is a fund of anecdotes about prehistorians
living and dead. The publication of this memoir records those
fragments of the discipline's history that are in danger of being
lost forever. But my life story is not erased from this account,
which is not an anthropological work but, rather, a participant
account with a modicum of relevant personal details. The book
providing the archaeological results is the publication Forging
identities in the prehistory of Old Europe. Dividuals, individuals
and communities 7000-3000 BC - a synthesis of academic research in
Balkan prehistory. This memoir provides the insider story to the
research results.
This book offered the first comprehensive study of the enclosure
mapping of England and Wales. Enclosure maps are fundamental
sources of evidence in many types of historical inquiries. Although
modern historians tend to view these large-scale maps essentially
as sources of data on past economies and societies, this book
argues that enclosure maps had a much more active role at the time
they were compiled. Seen from this perspective of their
contemporary society, enclosure maps are not simply antiquarian
curiosities, cultural artefacts, or useful sources for historians
but instruments of land reorganisation and control which both
reflected and consolidated the power of those who commissioned
them. The book is accompanied by a fully searchable, descriptive
and analytical web catalogue of all parliamentary and
non-parliamentary enclosure maps extant in public archives and
libraries and offers an essential research tool for economic,
social and local historians and for geographers, lawyers and
planners.
The communities who lived in the Balkans between 7000 and 4000 Cal.
BC have now been the focus of intensive and increasingly
inter-disciplinary research for the last forty years. Dwelling
between the warm, dry Mediterranean zones of the Aegean and
Anatolia and the cooler and snowier Central European heartlands,
these communities created distinctive social formations that left
enduring marks on today's landscapes. One of the key trends in
these millennia concerned the high value attributed to the exotic,
especially if that was represented by objects of striking colour
and brilliance. Thus, the preference, wherever possible, for
long-term sedentary lifeways was often in counterpoise with
strategies for bringing distinctive objects from remote places back
to the settlement for local 'domestication'. The prehistoric site
of Orlovo has been investigated neither by excavation nor by
systematic field walking but by repeated field visits, over many
years, and the collection of objects exposed by the plough. The
result is an extraordinarily rich and diverse collection of objects
whose contexts are poorly known but whose diversity reminds us not
so much of an excavated settlement as an excavated Chalcolithic
cemetery. This collection has challenged us to develop an approach
in which theory was integrated with methodology to propose as
complete an interpretation of the site as could be done from an
unstructured surface collection. The collection studied in this
book is significant for the prehistory not only of South East
Bulgaria but also for European prehistory as a whole and its study
and publication therefore, sheds light on the worlds of the
Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities of the Balkans through the
prism of a single site.
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