Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland

by Clarke, D. L.

• ISBN13: 9781107662773
• ISBN10: 110766277X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-22
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

In this 1970 study, Dr Clarke has collected together a relatively complete sample of the surviving culture of the Bell Beaker people, consisting mainly, though not entirely, of pottery, and has carefully redesigned the system of classification. This material has been subjected to detailed analysis from many different angles, and the evidence of each domain integrated to complete as coherent and accurate a model of this ancient social group as is possible. For convenience of handling, the work has been divided into two volumes. The first outlines the basis of classification and discusses the analysis of the material. The second volume contains line drawings of all known surviving complete examples of British Beaker pottery drawn at one-third size, detailed inventories of all known examples giving their finding-place, description, dimension and present whereabouts, and some plates to illustrate the quality of the material.

Table of Contents

List of text figures and tables in Volume 1

List of plates

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

Beaker decoration

Matrix analysis and beaker classification

A system for British beaker classification

An outline of European beaker origins

The All-Over-Cord beaker group (AOC)

The European Bell beaker group (E)

The Wessex/Middle Rhine beaker group (W/MR)

The Northern British/Middle Rhine beaker group (N/MR)

The Northern British/North Rhine beaker group (N/NR)

The Barbed-Wire beaker group (BW)

The East Anglican beaker group; (E.Ang.)

The Primary Northern British/Dutch beaker group (N1/D)

The Developed Northern British beaker group (N2)

The Late Northern British beaker group (N3)

The Final Northern British beaker group (N4)

The Primary Northern British beaker group (S1)

The Developed Southern British beaker group (S2)

The Late Southern British beaker group (S3)

The Final Southern British beaker groups (S4)

The Handled Southern British beaker series (SH)

Overall trends

Associations

The British setting and relative chronology

Summary and conclusions

Corpus illustrations, figs. 1-1087

Concordance list, relating the beaker corpus numbers to the figure numbers of the illustrations

Appendices

Definitive characteristics

Minor characteristics

Associations

Stratigraphy

Matrix analysis and British beakers

Corpus list of British beakers

Distribution lists, by beaker group, of the beakers in the corpus, shown on distribution maps 1-10

Notes to chapters 1-25

References

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