Prehistoric and Roman Landscapes

by Fleming, Andrew; Hingley, Richard; Dyer, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9781905119172
• ISBN10: 1905119178
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-01
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

As the essays in this book demonstrate, Prehistoric and Romano-British landscape studies have come a long way since Hoskins, whose work reflected the prevailing 'Celtic' ethnological narrative of Britain before the medieval period. The contributors present a stimulating survey of the subject as it is in the early twenty-first century, and provide some sense of a research frontier where new conceptualisations of 'otherness' and new research techniques are transforming our understanding.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Series Foreword: Landscape History after Hoskins
Preface
1955 and All Thar: Prehistoric Landscapes in The Making	p. 1
A New Downland Prehistory: Long-term Environmental Change on the Southern English Chalklands	p. 16
Making Strange: Monuments and the Creation of the Earlier Prehistoric Landscape	p. 33
Geophysical Survey and the Emergence of Underground Archaeological Landscapes: The Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site	p. 43
Bronze Age Field Systems and the English Channel-North Sea Cultural Region	p. 57
Claylands Revisited: The Prehistory of W.G. Hoskins's Midlands Plain	p. 70
Hillforts and Human Movement: Unlocking the Iron Age Landscapes of Mid Wales	p. 83
The Roman Landscape of Britain: From Hoskins to Today	p. 101
Beyond the Economic in the Roman Fenland: Reconsidering Land, Water, Hoards and Religion	p. 113
What Did the Romans Ever Do For Us? Roman Iron Production in the East Midlands and the Forest of Dean	p. 131
Roman Towns, Roman Landscapes: The Cultural Terrain of Town and Country in the Roman Period	p. 143
Contributors	p. 165
Bibliography	p. 167
Index	p. 189
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