Plants in Neolithic Britain and Beyond

by Andrew S. Fairbairn

Overview

Plant-centred issues are fundamental in the definitions and explanations of the Neolithic as a phenomenon.The meeting of the Neolithic Studies Group from which this volume developed aimed to provide a forum for the wide range of approaches now applied to Neolithic archaeobotany at site and landscape scales of resolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785703706
Publisher:	Oxbow Books
Publication date:	12/01/2000
Series:	Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers , #5
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	210
File size:	14 MB
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Table of Contents

Bringing plants into the taskscape (A Whittle)
High resolution maping of landscapes and landuse (M J Allen)
Coleopteran evidence for the elm decline (M Robinson)
Plant rescources on a crannog (C Warsop)
Floodplain vegetation history (A G Brown)
Woodland, trees and people in southern Britain (P Austin)
The importance of cultivation and collecting in Britain (G Jones)
Charred cereals, fruits and nuts (Mark Robinson)
Wheat crops of Britain (F Mc Laren)
Neolithization of the Netherlands (C Bakels)
Spread of plant crops across Britain (A Fairbairn)
Human consumption of plant foods in the British Neolithic (M P Richards)
Neolithic ale (M Dineley & G Dineley)
Plant as the raw material for crafts (L Hurcombe)
Reconstructing archaeobotany (J Swogger)