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The Flag Fen Basin : archaeology and environment of a Fenland landscape
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The Flag Fen Basin has been the subject of nearly continuous archaeological research since about 1900. This research sheds new light on the Neolithic landscape, on the Iron Age and Roman landscapes...
The Flag Fen Basin has been the subject of nearly continuous archaeological research since about 1900. This research sheds new light on the Neolithic landscape, on the Iron Age and Roman landscapes, and on the changing environmental conditions since the earlier Neolithic.
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- Creator
- Francis Pryor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- United Kingdom : Liverpool University Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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- 1 online resource (515 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781848021518, 1848021518, 1850747539
- OCLC
- ocn851970557
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Front cover; Prelims; Half title; Dedication; Title page; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Summary; Résumé; Zusammenfassung; Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Flag Fen Basin; Chapter 2 - Recent research in south Fengate; Chapter 3 - Recent research in central and north Fengate; Chapter 4 - The Power Station excavations, 1989; Chapter 5 - Excavation and survey at Northey, 1982-94; Chapter 6 - Excavations at Flag Fen, 1982-95; Chapter 7 - The wood; Chapter 8 - Tree-ring studies; Chapter 9 - Prehistoric pottery from the Power Station and Flag Fen; Chapter 10 - Metalwork
- Chapter 11 - Finds of flint, stone, and shaleChapter 12 - Non-human and human mammalian bone remains from the Flag Fen platform and Power Station post alignment; Chapter 13 - Flag Fen: the vegetation and environment; Chapter 14 - Soils and sediments: the Flag Fen environs survey; Chapter 15 - Late Bronze Age Coleoptera from Flag Fen; Chapter 16 - Radiocarbon and absolute chronology; Chapter 17 - The development of the prehistoric landscape in the Flag Fen Basin; Chapter 18 - Discussion, part 1: patterns of settlement and land-use
- Chapter 19 - Discussion, part 2: the Flag Fen timber structuresEnd matter; Appendix 1 Detailed soil micromorphological descriptions of samples from the Depot (1992) and Cat's Water (1990) sites, Fengate (Chapters 2 and 3); Appendix 2 Detailed soil micromorphological descriptions of samples from the Power Station site (Chapter 14); Appendix 3 Concordance list of published and archive trench designations (Chapter 6); Appendix 4 Thin section descriptions of the quernstone samples (Chapter 11); Appendix 5 Detailed soil micromorphological descriptions of the Flag Fen environs (Chapter 14)
- BibliographyIndex; Fold-out illustrations; Fig 4.1; Fig 4.15; Fig 4.23; Fig 6.9; Fig 6.19; Fig 6.20; Fig 6.21; Fig 6.40; Fig 6.41; Fig 6.52; Fig 6.53; Fig 6.96; Fig 6.98; Fig 6.99; Fig 6.100; Fig 19.4; Imprint