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Prehistoric and Roman landscapes / edited by Andrew Fleming and Richard Hingley.

Contributor(s): Fleming, Andrew J | Hingley, RichardMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Landscape history after Hoskins ; v. 1.Publication details: Bollington, Macclesfield : Windgather Press, 2007. Description: xvii, 196 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: 9781905119172; 1905119178Subject(s): Great Britain -- Historical geography -- CongressesGenre/Form: Conference papers and proceedingsLOC classification: DA600 | .P74 2007
Contents:
1955 and all that : prehistoric landscapes in The making / Andrew Fleming -- A new downland prehistory : long-term environmental change on the southern English chalklands / Michael J. Allen and Rob Scaife -- Making strange : monuments and the creation of the earlier prehistoric landscape / Richard Bradley -- Geophysical survey and the emergence of underground archaelogical landscpaes : the heart of neolithic Orkney world heritage site / Nick Card [and others] -- Bronze age field systems and the English Channel-North Sea cultural region / David Yates -- Claylands revisited : the prehistory of W.G. Hoskins's Midlands Plain / Patrick Clay -- Hillforts and human movement : unlocking the iron age landscapes of mid Wales / Toby Driver -- The Roman landscape of Britain : from Hoskins to today / Richard Hingley -- Beyond the economic in the Roman fenland : reconsidering land, water, hoards and religion / Adam Rogers -- What did the Romans ever do for us? : Roman iron production in the East Midlands and the Forest of Dean / Irene Schrüfer-Kolb -- Roman towns, Roman landscapes : the cultural terrain of town and country in the Roman period / Steven Willis.
Summary: Features essays that demonstrate Prehistoric and Romano-British landscape studies have come a long way since Hoskins, whose work reflected the prevailing 'Celtic' ethnological narrative of Britain before the medieval period. As the essays in this book demonstrate, Prehistoric and Romano-British landscape studies have come a long way since Hoskins, whose work reflected the prevailing 'Celtic' ethnological narrative of Britain before the medieval period. The contributors present a stimulating survey of the subject as it is in the early twenty-first century, and provide some sense of a research frontier where new conceptualisations of 'otherness' and new research techniques are transforming our understanding.
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A selection of papers presented from the conference called W.G. Hoskins and the Making of the British Landscape, held at the University of Leicester on 7-10 July 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-188) and index.

1955 and all that : prehistoric landscapes in The making / Andrew Fleming -- A new downland prehistory : long-term environmental change on the southern English chalklands / Michael J. Allen and Rob Scaife -- Making strange : monuments and the creation of the earlier prehistoric landscape / Richard Bradley -- Geophysical survey and the emergence of underground archaelogical landscpaes : the heart of neolithic Orkney world heritage site / Nick Card [and others] -- Bronze age field systems and the English Channel-North Sea cultural region / David Yates -- Claylands revisited : the prehistory of W.G. Hoskins's Midlands Plain / Patrick Clay -- Hillforts and human movement : unlocking the iron age landscapes of mid Wales / Toby Driver -- The Roman landscape of Britain : from Hoskins to today / Richard Hingley -- Beyond the economic in the Roman fenland : reconsidering land, water, hoards and religion / Adam Rogers -- What did the Romans ever do for us? : Roman iron production in the East Midlands and the Forest of Dean / Irene Schrüfer-Kolb -- Roman towns, Roman landscapes : the cultural terrain of town and country in the Roman period / Steven Willis.

Features essays that demonstrate Prehistoric and Romano-British landscape studies have come a long way since Hoskins, whose work reflected the prevailing 'Celtic' ethnological narrative of Britain before the medieval period. As the essays in this book demonstrate, Prehistoric and Romano-British landscape studies have come a long way since Hoskins, whose work reflected the prevailing 'Celtic' ethnological narrative of Britain before the medieval period. The contributors present a stimulating survey of the subject as it is in the early twenty-first century, and provide some sense of a research frontier where new conceptualisations of 'otherness' and new research techniques are transforming our understanding.