It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the'richest historical
records we possess', but just how old is it? The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore …

ANDY M JONES AND HENRIETTA QUINNELL changes resulted from acculturation of
Cornish hunter-gather communities through contacts with Neolithic farmers in western …

Why is it that in some places around the world communities live in villages, while elsewhere
people live in isolated houses scattered across the landscape? How does archaeology …

The Tregurra Valley, to the east of Truro in mid Cornwall (Fig 1.1), has proved to contain a
remarkable record of human activity stretching from the Mesolithic period over 6000 years …

It is now widely assumed that many artefacts found in the prehistoric archaeological record
were not casually discarded as unwanted material but were deposited in features and …

The last two decades have seen a major change in knowledge of Grooved Ware, its
chronology and the contexts in which it is found. At the time of writing, 18 sites have been …

In 1984 the entrance grave at Bosiliack, Cornwall, was excavated by Charles Thomas on
behalf of the Institute of Cornish Studies. It was a comparatively small example …

The chapter presents the outcomes from a project funded by Historic England to collate and
analyse scientific dates for field systems in England. The project identified 393 scientific …

Two series of excavations undertaken on the Farway barrow complex in east Devon, the first
during the 1860s and the second in the 1960s, led to the recovery of an important collection …

Both large‐and small‐scale ceremonial monuments are a well‐known feature of the third
and second millennia cal BC. However, from the middle of the second millennium cal BC the …