Prehistory without borders : the prehistoric archaeology of the Tyne-Forth region /

Modern borders of all kinds, political, geographical and social, effect the kinds of prehistoric narratives archaeologists can write. Borders that dominate today did not exist in prehistory. This volume works across such borders and focuses specifically on the region between the Rivers Forth and Tyn...

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Other Authors:	Crellin, Rachel (Editor), Fowler, Chris, 1973- (Editor), Tipping, R. M. (Richard M.) (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016.
Subjects:	Prehistoric peoples > England > Tyne Valley. Prehistoric peoples > Scotland > Forth Valley. Prehistoric peoples > Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Tyne Valley. Excavations (Archaeology) > Scotland > Forth Valley. Social archaeology > England > Tyne Valley. Social archaeology > Scotland > Forth Valley. Tyne Valley (England) > Antiquities. Forth Valley (Scotland) > Antiquities. Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) > Antiquities.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Prehistory without borders: an introduction / Rachel Crellin, Chris Fowler and Richard Tipping
Chapter 2: Modern borders and the prehistory of northwest Europe / Colin Haselgrove, Marc Vander Linden and Leo Webley
Chapter 3: Archaeological co-operations across borders in the "Europe of the regions" : taking a closer look at four examples from Basle and Lake Constance / Sophie Hüglin
Chapter 4: Surveys and surveyors lurking in the shadows of our past / Stratford Halliday
Chapter 5: Creating the cropmark record of southeast Scotland / Dave Cowley
Chapter 6: The landscape context of Scotland's first open-air Late Upper Palaeolithic archaeological site / Richard Tipping, Lucy Verrill, Matthew Bradley, Rupert Housley, and Alan Saville
Chapter 7: Fragmenting society : pottery biographies from Neolithic Northumberland / Ben Edwards
Chapter 8: Breaking boundaries past and present : Neolithic and Early Bronze pottery in the Tyne-Forth region / Dana Millson
Chapter 9: Early Bronze Age mortuary practices in north-east England and south-east Scotland : using relational typologies to trace social networks / Chris Fowler and Neil Wilkin
Chapter 10: The view from above : prehistoric activity at Soutra Hill / Bob Will
Chapter 11: Funerary fragments between the rivers : analysing the evidence for the dead in the Tyne-Forth region during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1150-800 BC) / Katherine Warden, Edward Caswell and Ben Roberts
Chapter 12: Yetholm revisited : old and new finds of high-quality Late Bronze Age metalwork / Trevor Cowie, Brendan O'Connor and Marion Uckelmann
Chapter 13: Bronze Age settlement : some considerations in the light of recent results / Clive Waddington & Dave Passmore
Chapter 14: Catastrophism, climate change, Colin Burgess and The Cheviot / Richard Tipping
Chapter 15: The Needles Eye Enclosure, Berwick-upon-Tweed : evidence for salt manufacture in the Late Iron Age / Jennifer Proctor
Chapter 16: Querns in Northumberland / Dave Heslop
Chapter 17: Later prehistoric settlement from the Tees to the Forth : the timing of transformation and the tempo of renewal / Derek Hamilton.