Prehistoric Britain: The Ceramic Basis

by Ann Woodward, J. D. Hill

Overview

Pottery has become one of the major categories of artifact that is used in reconstructing the lives and habits of prehistoric people. In these 14 papers, members of the Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group discuss the many ways in which pottery is used to study chronology, behavioral changes, interrelationships between people and between people and their environment, technology and production, exchange, settlement organization, cultural expression, style and symbolism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785705335
Publisher:	Oxbow Books
Publication date:	01/31/2017
Series:	PREH CERAMICS RES GROUP OCC. , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

Ann Woodward is a retired Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. She specialises in Bronze Age pottery and barrows; her publications include An Examination of Prehistoric Stone Bracers, and Prehistoric Britain: The Ceramic Basis.
J.D. Hill is Research Manager in the British Museum and specializes in the Iron Age. Contributors include curatorial experts drawn from the whole range of the British Museum’s collection.

Table of Contents

Introduction (Ann Woodward and J D Hill)
A Date with the Past: Late Bronze and Iron Age Pottery and Chronology (Steven Willis)
The Nature of Archaeological Deposits and Finds Assemblages (Joshua Pollard)
Aspects of Manufacture and Ceramic Technology (Alex Gibson)
Between Ritual and Routine: Interpreting British Prehistoric Pottery Production and Distribution (Sue Hamilton)
Staying Alive: The Function and Use of Prehistoric Ceramics (Elaine L. Morris)
Sherds in Space: Pottery and the Analysis of Site Organisation (Ann Woodward)
Pottery and the Expression of Society, Economy and Culture (J D Hill); Ceramic Lives (Alistair Barclay)
Pots as Categories: British Beakers (Robin Boast)
Inclusions, Impressions and Interpretation (Ann Woodward)
A Regional Ceramic Sequence: Pottery of the First Millennium BC between the Humber and the Nene (David Knight)
Just about the Potter's Wheel? Using, Making and Depositing Middle and Later Iron Age Pots in East Anglia (J D Hill)
Roman Pottery in Iron Age Britain (Andrew Fitzpatrick and Jane Timby).