The peopling of Britain : the shaping of a human landscape / edited by Paul Slack and Ryk Ward.

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1423767381
9781423767381
1280446242
9781280446245
9780198297598
0198297599
9786610446247
6610446245

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Contents:

Early beginnings 500,000-35,000 years ago / Clive Gamble -- Homo sapiens peopling of Europe / Paul Mellars -- Comment : End of story? / Andrew Sherratt -- Coming of agriculture : people, landscapes, and change c.4000-1500 BC / Alasdair Whittle -- Comment : Significant transitions / Colin Renfrew -- Tribes and empires c.1500 BC-AD 500 / Barry Cunliffe -- Comment : Questions of identities / Martin Millett -- Kings and warriors : population and landscape from post-Roman to Norman Britain / Heinrich Härke -- Plagues and peoples : the long demographic cycle, 1250-1670 / Richard Smith -- Comment : Perceptions and people / Paul Slack -- Country and town : the primary, secondary, and tertiary peopling of England in the early modern period / E.A. Wrigley -- Comment : Prometheus prostrated? / John Langton -- Empire, the economy, and immigration : Britain 1850-2000 / Ceri Peach.

Summary: This volume reviews the way in which, over the centuries, the evolving human presence in Britain has shaped the British landscape and how, in turn, the British landscape has moulded the development of British communities. From the beginnings of human settlement Britain has represented a final frontier for successive waves of colonists, each bringing its own set of cultural adaptations and its own ethos into the landscape. Over time both landscape and culture have matured from raw frontier to settled centre, moulded by the advent of agriculture, towns, and industry, and by streams of migration both within Britain and from outside. The chapters in this book - by archaeologists, historians, and geographers - present an interdisciplinary and accessible account of that long process. Together they trace the various phases of the story, showing how much of it has only recently been unearthed, and how much remains to be discovered.

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This volume reviews the way in which, over the centuries, the evolving human presence in Britain has shaped the British landscape and how, in turn, the British landscape has moulded the development of British communities. From the beginnings of human settlement Britain has represented a final frontier for successive waves of colonists, each bringing its own set of cultural adaptations and its own ethos into the landscape. Over time both landscape and culture have matured from raw frontier to settled centre, moulded by the advent of agriculture, towns, and industry, and by streams of migration both within Britain and from outside. The chapters in this book - by archaeologists, historians, and geographers - present an interdisciplinary and accessible account of that long process. Together they trace the various phases of the story, showing how much of it has only recently been unearthed, and how much remains to be discovered.

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