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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Southern Britain"”.
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Making the invisible, visible. Iron age and roman salt-production in Southern Britain.
… has tended to focus on the eastern coast of Britain, with less attention being paid to other potential salt-producing areas. In previous studies in southern Britain, much emphasis has been placed on the distribution of salt and the ‘equipment’ used to produce and potentially transport salt - …
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The differential use of constructed sacred space in southern Britain, from the late Iron Age to the 4th century AD
… the late Iron Age to the late Roman period in southern Britain, focusing on the differential use of internal space. Following an initial review of the interpretative parameters used in the archaeological identification of constructed cult sites, the evidence for such loci within an Iron Age …
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The re-examination of extant human skeletal remains from excavated earlier neolithic long barrows and chambered tombs in southern Britain
… excavated Earlier Neolithic human remains from Southern Britain. These form the subject of a Synoptic Overview. The Synoptic Overview places the papers within the context of academic debate and knowledge as it stood in the mid 1980s and 1990s. The background events surrounding the writing of the …
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Predicting ecological impacts of climate change and species introductions on a temperate chalk stream in Southern Britain - a dynamic food web model approach.
To predict the impact of future disturbances such a climate change and introduction of non-native species on ecosystems, it is important to understand how disturbances may affect community composition. This is inherently diffcult since species may be expected to respond differently to disturbances …
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A revision of the materiality of architecture: the significance of Neolithic long mound and chambered monument building practice, with particular reference to the Cotswold-Severn Group
… to be among the first 'architectures' in Britain. These architectures have been considered by archaeologists to characterise part of what we know about the neolithic in southern Britain. There are features and material culture associated with the mesolithic at these sites but this evidence …
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The early Neolithic tor enclosures of Southwest Britain
… the earliest enclosure of large open spaces in Britain and are the earliest form of surviving non-funerary monument. Their importance is at least as great as that of causewayed enclosures, and it might be argued that their proposed associations with settlement, farming, industry, trade and …
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An iconological analysis of British gold staters c.80 BC - AD 45
… presence of an iconographic repertoire across southern Britain during the late pre-Roman Iron Age. <br/><br/>Gold staters remain an important aspect of this phenomenon which is demonstrated to have manifested itself in other media, particularly metalwork. That this new art form supplemented, …
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The isotopic evolution of the British lithosphere
… north and south of the Leinster Granite. The southern suite has trace element, Sr and Nd isotope systematics equivalent to the present day calc alkaline volcanism of Java. It is estimated that 80% of the Sr and 50% of the Nd in these rocks are slab derived. The northern tholeiitic suite is …
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Holocene sea-level changes along the Channel coast of South-west England
… SLIP database for the south-west peninsula and southern Britain by 23% and for south Devon by almost fivefold.
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Iron age maritime nodes on the English Channel coast.
Studies of Iron Age coastal sites in southern Britain have previously concentrated on Hengistbury Head, Dorset and Mount Batten, Devon. These sites have coloured our understanding of late Iron Age cross-Channel interactions. The possibility of many other coastal sites being identified has been …
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Narrativizing Difference in Earlier Bronze Age Society: a comparative analysis of age and gender ideologies in the burials of Ireland and Scotland
… Age society developed with central Europe or southern Britain in mind, and it is shown that practice in Ireland and Scotland reflects significantly different realities.
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Biostratigraphy and palaeolimnology of late-glacial and holocene lake marls at Quidenham Mere, Norfolk.
In southern Britain there are relatively few natural lakes that have records extending back to the beginning of the Late-glacial. The exceptions are the Meres of central East Anglia that are infilled with organic sediments, providing detailed vegetational records. Of these, Quidenham Mere is unique …