Westward on the high-hilled plains the later prehistory of the West Midlands

"The West Midlands has struggled archaeologically to project a distinct regional identity, having largely been defined by reference to other areas with a stronger cultural identity and history, such as Wessex the South-West, and the North. Only occasionally has the West Midlands come to promine...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hurst, J. D., editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, England ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : Oxbow Books 2017.
Colección:Making of the West Midlands.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009668697406719
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  • Foreign language summaries
  • Introduction: Westward on the high-hilled plains / Niall Sharples
  • Cows, beans and the view : landscape and farming of the West Midlands in later prehistory / Elizabeth Pearson
  • "The Bronze Age has lagged behind" : late Bronze Age settlement and landscape in the West Midlands / Hal Dalwood
  • Burnt mounds and beyond : the later prehistory of Birmingham and the Black Country / Mike Hodder
  • Any more old Iron Age? : an archaeological resource assessment for the middle Bronze Age to Iron Age in Warwickshire and Solihull / Stuart C. Palmer
  • Herefordshire : from the middle Bronze Age to the later Iron Age / Peter Dorling, Keith Ray, and Paul White
  • Fugitive pieces : towards a new understanding of the later second and first millennia BC in Shropshire / Andy Wigley
  • The late Bronze Age and Iron Age in Staffordshire : the torc of the Midlands? / Chris Wardle
  • Middle Bronze Age to late Iron Age Worcestershire / Derek Hurst
  • An overview of the ceramic basis within the broader West Midlands region / Annette Hancocks
  • The potential of the portable antiquities scheme and treasure finds for understanding the Iron Age in the West Midlands / Angie Bolton
  • Later prehistoric production and trade in the West Midlands / Derek Hurst
  • Touching the void : Iron Age landscapes and settlement in the West Midlands / Andy Wigley.