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This volume examines long-term processes of social change and
settlement practices in later prehistoric and early medieval Wales.
As a case-study, it examines the settlement archaeology of
north-west Wales encompassing the counties of Gwynedd, Anglesey and
west Conwy, and covering a period of two millennia from the Late
Bronze Age to the end of the Early Medieval period (1150 BC - AD
1050). The shifting dynamics underlying society are examined
throughout this period in the introductory chapters via an
exploration of settlement and hill fort architectures, the
distribution patterns of site-types, and the histories of
particular places, with comparisons drawn from the evidence in
other regions of Britain and Ireland. Much of the data comes from
the grey literatures and Gwynedd Archaeological Trust Historic
Environment Record, making much unpublished information available
for the first time.
These fifteen papers came out of the eighth annual meeting of the
Iron Age Research Student Seminar (IARSS) and are loosely grouped
into three topics: settlement studies, deposition and material
culture, and experimental archaeology. Most of the studies are
re-examinings of well known data sets, such as hillforts, small
enclosures and bone assemblages, both human and animal. They are
mainly focused on the British Iron Age - one of the most
heterogeneous and regionally distinctive periods in British
prehistory. Material culture is highly variable, as are settlement
patterns, and even chronology is of an entirely local character,
being reliant on typological sequences from each region's specific
archaeological record. The book ends with the recounting of a trip
to the Iron Age village at St. Fagan's, Cardiff - a practical foray
into the Iron Age day-to-day.
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