Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology: Life And Death In The Bronze Age: An Archaeologist's Field-

Reissuing works originally published between 1930 and 1996, this set presents a rich selection of renowned and lesser-known scholarship across the subject. Classic previously out-of-print works are brought back into print here in this set of research, guidance and surveys. It includes works of theory and of practical research, ranging over a wide range of themes from archaeology and place-names to industrial archaeology to the rock art of Africa. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Original Title Page 6 Original Copyright Page 7 Table of Contents 8 PREFACE 16 Purpose of the Book 16 List of Illustrations 10 INTRODUCTION 22 The Bronze Age in Southern Britain 22 Ritual: its Nature and Influence 30 1 A BARROW IN NORTH WALES—Neolithic–Bronze Age Transition, c. 1700 B.C., and Secondaries 34 Ysceifiog, Flintshire 34 2 (a) FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY IN WEST WALES, 1925–6 47 A Barrow on Kilpaison Burrows, Rhoscrowther, Pembrokeshire 47 Corston Beacon, Pembrokeshire: A Round Cairn 60 A Cist at Crosshands, Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire 65 Beaker Burial: Pale Bach, Cyffig, Carmarthenshire 67 (b) POTTERY FROM BURIALS IN WEST AND NORTH WALES, 1925–6 69 A Handled Beaker from Cwm-du, Brecknockshire 69 Two ‘Food-Vessels’ from Welsh Barrows 71 Middle Bronze Age Pottery: Overhanging-rim Urns and ‘Pigmy’ Cups 73 Late Bronze Age Pottery: ‘Encrusted’ Urns: All from burials in Wales 74 3 BARROW-DIGGING IN WEST AND SOUTH WALES—Early Bronze Age (Beaker Phase) 81 South Hill Barrow, Talbenny, Pembrokeshire, c. 1550 B.C. 82 Sutton 268', Llandow, Glamorgan, c. 1600 B.C. 111 4 THE ‘FOOD-VESSEL’ PHASE OF CULTURE IN BRITAIN 126 Quernhow, a Barrow in the North Riding of Yorkshire, c. 1500 B.C. 126 Simondston Cairn, Coity Higher Parish, Bridgend, Glamorgan, c. 1400 B.C. 133 5 COMPOSITE (EARTH AND STONE) BARROWS IN GLAMORGAN—Early and Middle Bronze Age 153 Breach Farm, Llanbleddian, Glamorgan, c. 1350 B.C. 154 Sutton 268', Llandow, Glamorgan: Secondaries c. 1300–900 B.C. 160 Pond Cairn, Coity, Glamorgan, c. 1100 B.C. 172 6 TURF BARROWS IN SOUTH WALES—Middle and Late Bronze Age 201 Introduction 201 Sheeplays 293', c. 1000 B.C. 202 Sheeplays 279', c. 900 B.C. 220 Six Wells 267', c. 900 B.C. 225 Six Wells 271', c. 700 B.C. 237 Mortuary Houses in Turf Barrows 262 7 COMMENTARY 267 BIBLIOGRAPHY 271 INDICES 272 Subject 272 Places 277 This book is one of a series of volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense, investigating how people lived in the past and how and why changes took place to result in the forms of society and culture which exist now. The series brought together archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, academics from contingent disciplines, and also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds who could lend their own expertise to the discussions. This book is an exploration of the way in which the animal world features in the works of art of a variety of cultures of different times and places. Contributors have adopted a variety of perspectives for looking at the complex ways in which past and present humans have interrelated with beings they classify as animals. Some of the approaches are predominantly economic and ecological, some are symbolic and others philosophical or theological. All these different views are included in the interpretation of the artworks of the past, revealing some of the foci and inspirations of cultural attitudes to animals. Originally published 1989 This is a great work by one of the pioneers of modern archaeology. The period covered is from 1700 to 700 B.C. and is mainly concerned with the author's field work in western Britain. It deals with burial ritual - dances, processions, ""houses of the dead"", the objects deposited, the building of the barrow; and it shows by line drawings and photographs how scientific excavation nowadays is planned and executed. The book gathers together an immense amount of research completed over a long span of years on burials and the ceremonial which attended them. Originally published in 1959 Experimental archaeology is a new approach to the study of early man. By reconstructing and testing models of ancient equipment with the techniques available to early man, we learn how he lived, hunted, fought and built. What did early man eat? How did he store and cook his food? How did he make his tools and weapons and pottery? Such everyday questions, besides the more dramatic mysteries associated with the monuments of Easter Island and Stonehenge and the colonization of Polynesia, can all be explored by experiment A comprehensive discussion of what can be established about the culture and daily life of medieval Germany. Besides methodological questions, the author considers what can be learnt about the history of settlement and architecture, of technology, of economic and social matters, of churches and missions, and of population, diet and vegetation. This volume develops a new approach to plant exploitation and early agriculture in a worldwide comparative context. The studies throughout the book come from a worldwide range of geographical contexts, from the Andes to China and from Australia to the Upper Mid-West of North America. Originally published 1989.