Contents

List of figures

Introduction: Neolithic Britain—encounters and reflections

1. Writing Neolithic Britain: an interpretive journey

2. 4000 bce: a cultural threshold

3. Narratives for the fourth millennium

4. Social being and cultural practices

5. Narratives for the third millennium

6. Kinship, history, and descent

Conclusion: A lived Neolithic

Glossary of technical words

Bibliographical commentary

An outline of chronologies

Index