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Leading scholars in these 29 commissioned papers in honour of
Richard Bradley discuss key themes in prehistoric archaeology that
have defined his career, such as monumentality, memory, rock art,
landscape, material worlds and field practice. The scope is broad,
covering both Britain and Europe, and while the focus is very much
on the archaeology of later prehistory, papers also address the
interconnection between prehistory and historic and contemporary
archaeology. The result is a rich and varied tribute to Richard's
energy and intellectual inspiration.
Between 2018 and 2019, Cornwall Archaeological Unit undertook two
projects at Mount’s Bay, Penwith. The first involved the
excavation of a Bronze Age barrow and the second, environmental
augur core sampling in Marazion Marsh. Both sites lie within an
area of coastal hinterland, which has been subject to incursions by
rising sea levels. Since the Mesolithic, an area of approximately 1
kilometre in extent between the current shoreline and St
Michael’s Mount has been lost to gradually rising sea levels.
With current climate change, this process is likely to occur at an
increasing rate. Given their proximity, the opportunity was taken
to draw the results from the two projects together along with all
available existing environmental data from the area. For the first
time, the results from all previous palaeoenvironmental projects in
the Mount’s Bay area have been brought together. Evidence for
coastal change and sea level rise is discussed and a model for the
drowning landscape presented. In addition to modelling the loss of
land and describing the environment over time, social responses
including the wider context of the Bronze Age barrow and later
Bronze Age metalwork deposition in the Mount’s Bay environs are
considered. The effects of the gradual loss of land are discussed
in terms of how change is perceived, its effects on community
resilience, and the construction of social memory and narratives of
place. The volume presents the potential for nationally significant
environmental data to survive, which demonstrates the long-term
effects of climate change and rising sea levels, and peoples’
responses to these over time.
The Chalcolithic, the phase in prehistory when the important
technical development of adding tin to copper to produce bronze had
not yet taken place, is not a term generally used by British
prehistorians and whether there is even a definable phase is
debated. Is There a British Chalcolithic? brings together many
leading authorities in 20 papers that address this question. Papers
are grouped under several headings. Definitions, Issues and Debate
considers whether appropriate criteria apply that define a
distinctive period (c. 2450 - 2150 cal BC) in cultural, social, and
temporal terms with particular emphasis on the role and status of
metal artefacts and Beaker pottery. Continental Perspectives
addresses various aspects of comparative regions of Europe where a
Chalcolithic has been defined. Around Britain and Ireland presents
a series of large-scale regional case studies where authors argue
for and against the adoption of the term. The final section,
Economy, Landscapes and Monuments, looks at aspects of economy,
land-use and burial tradition and provides a detailed consideration
of the Stonehenge and Avebury landscapes during the period in
question. The volume contains much detailed information on sites
and artefacts, and comprehensive radiocarbon datasets that will be
invaluable to scholars and students studying this enigmatic but
pivotal episode of British Prehistory. Additional information
originally found on included CD ROM can be downloaded here.
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Crossways (Paperback)
Michael J. Allen; Illustrated by Jacqueline Sweet
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R609
Discovery Miles 6 090
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War
than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet
despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring
of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen
reveals how wartime loss transformed U.S. politics well before, and
long after, the war's official end. Throughout the war's last years
and in the decades since, Allen argues, the effort to recover lost
warriors was as much a means to establish responsibility for their
loss as it was a search for answers about their fate. Though
millions of Americans and Vietnamese took part in that effort, POW
and MIA families and activists dominated it. Insisting that the war
was not over ""until the last man comes home,"" this small,
determined group turned the unprecedented accounting effort against
those they blamed for their suffering. Allen demonstrates that
POW/MIA activism prolonged the hostility between the United States
and Vietnam even as the search for the missing became the basis for
closer ties between the two countries in the 1990s. Equally
important, he explains, POW/MIA families' disdain for the antiwar
left and contempt for federal authority fueled the conservative
ascendancy after 1968. Mixing political, cultural, and diplomatic
history, Until the Last Man Comes Home presents the full and
lasting impact of the Vietnam War in ways that are both familiar
and surprising.
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Crossways (Hardcover)
Michael J. Allen; Illustrated by Jacqueline Sweet
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R897
Discovery Miles 8 970
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The Ouse valley, East Sussex, is a key communication route from the
Channel coast, via the Downs (and the historic county town of
Lewes), to the wide expanse of the Weald. It traverses and
encompasses landscapes and archaeological sites of both regional
and national importance - all connected by the river Ouse and its
valley. This is the first review of the archaeology of this
important landscape - from Palaeolithic to medieval times by
contributors all routed in the archaeology of Sussex. Binding
together the archaeology is a review of the geoarchaeology and
palaeo-environment following which the chapters document the
collective archaeology and potential from the Palaeolithic of
Boxgrove vs Piltdown, via Mesolithic archaeology from the textbook
excavations of Grahame Clark to recent 21st century investigations.
Monuments of causewayed enclosures, long barrows and round barrows
represent some of the Neolithic and Bronze Age evidence with some
extraordinary finds recorded in the Bronze Age. From hillforts and
villas, to medieval rural and urban excavation; the Ouse valley
represents a microcosm of the wider region, the contributions
collectively reveal the importance and significance of this valley
to the development of landscape history and society of a
quintessential English county. The narrative concludes with the
first detailed research agenda for the Ouse valley.
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