ABSTRACT

This book employs contemporary theoretical perspectives to investigate the Neolithic period in southern britain. It is a fully reworked edition of the author's Rethinking the Neolithic (1991).

chapter 1|6 pages

An archaeology of difference

chapter 2|27 pages

Beyond the economic system

chapter 3|28 pages

Reading monuments

chapter |27 pages

Pits, pots and dirt

A genealogy of depositional practices

chapter 5|37 pages

Portable artefacts: the case of pottery

chapter 6|37 pages

Mortuary practice

chapter 7|21 pages

Regional sequences: the Stonehenge area

chapter 9|22 pages

Regional sequences: the Avebury district

chapter 10|9 pages

Conclusion