Defining a Regional Neolithic: The Evidence from Britain and Ireland Book

Sect. 1 Defining regional Neolithics

1 Introduction: a regional agenda? Gordon Barclay Barclay, Gordon 1

2 The map trap: the depiction of regional geographies of the Neolithic Kenneth Brophy Brophy, Kenneth 5

Sect. 2 Material culture

3 Corn grinding in southern England: what can the querns tell us? Fiona Roe Roe, Fiona 26

4 From ritual to riches - the route to individual power in later Neolithic Eastern Yorkshire Roy Loveday Loveday, Roy 35

Sect. 3 Regional and local studies

5 Building monuments at the centre of the world: exploring regional diversity in south-west Wales and south-west Scotland Vicki Cummings Cummings, Vicki 53

6 On the edge of England: Cumbria as a Neolithic region Aaron Watson Watson, Aaron Richard Bradley Bradley, Richard 65

7 No-man's land revisited: some patterns in the Neolithic of Cumbria Tom Clare Clare, Tom 78

8 Core or periphery? The case of the Neolithic of the East Midlands Patrick Clay Clay, Patrick 92

9 The role of islands in defining identity and regionality during the Neolithic: the Dublin coastal group Gabriel Cooney Cooney, Gabriel 106

10 Coasts, mountains, rivers and bogs. Using the landscape to explore regionality in Neolithic Ireland Carleton Jones Jones, Carleton 119