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Index
Cover page Halftitle page Title page Copyright page Dedication Foreword Acknowledgements Contents List of figures Introduction: Neolithic Britain—encounters and reflections 1. Writing Neolithic Britain: an interpretive journey
Revolutions and emigrants Ecology and social evolution Symbol and meaning Writing the Neolithic as metaphor Writing the Neolithic creatively Writing ‘timescapes’: new chronologies for the Neolithic Writing the Neolithic in a geographically balanced way The grand narrative versus emergent causation Writing ‘the transformation of social worlds’
2. 4000 BCE: a cultural threshold
Differing views of a threshold Continuities across the threshold Innovative communities and their practices Halls, migration, and complexity: a White Horse Stone tale New preoccupations, new histories... new people? Genes and migrants Into fourth-millennium ‘history’
3. Narratives for the fourth millennium
The fourth millennium BCE in Britain: a broad-brush perspective In the beginning, there was fine pottery... A narrative of Neolithization, and the creation of houses or halls A narrative of human burial, and the first creation of bone repositories Regionalization and exchange networks A narrative of changing subsistence practices Building long mounds and chambers, variously Creating enclosures and delimiting space within a circle or curve Delimiting space in a linear way Cultural diversities and elaborations The descent and diversification of traditions
4. Social being and cultural practices
Working and extracting flint From feasting to deposition Dwelling Herding and hunting Harm Communicating with pots? Timberworld Trails of the axes: from procurement to exchange The art of transformation in skeuomorphic practices Dealings with the dead: histories of the body
5. Narratives for the third millennium
Orkney house societies The Grooved Ware phenomenon The symbolic encapsulation of the house Henging, mounding, and the dead Stonehenge Dye in the blood: the appearance of Beakers in Late Neolithic Britain
6. Kinship, history, and descent
Beginning with trees: encapsulating a hunting and gathering past The Sweet Track: histories in and between place ‘In the kinship of cows’ revisited Times and lives: some clues concerning Neolithic concepts of time Identity and descent implicated in the placing of pottery The creation, incorporation, and embodiment of the ‘House’ The communication and ‘seeding’ of history in stone Curation of remains from the past in the Neolithic Patterns of commemoration: burning and marking Making and recording history through practice
Conclusion: A lived Neolithic
Experiencing the Neolithic in the present People and things Neolithic Britain and the wider world The transformation of social worlds Rewriting—and always learning more about— the Neolithic of Britain
Glossary of technical words Bibliographical commentary An outline of chronologies Index
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