Neolithic
'What do chalk objects mean?’ Discussing British prehistoric chalk in context
Anne Teather (University of Sheffield, UK)
Timber monuments and environment within the Neolithic of the Nith Valley, Dumfries and Galloway
Kirsty Millican (University of Glasgow, UK)
Animals in prehistory: from epistemology to methodology
David Orton (Binghampton University, USA)
Theoretical discussions of human-environment interactions, and particularly human engagements with animals, are often hard to reconcile with the forms of data available to us as archaeologists. This paper seeks to move beyond questions of epistemology in order to propose some possible methodological directions.
Chronology and Ecology of later Mesolithic disturbance episodes in North West Europe: adoption of new ideas in prehistory and in contemporary archaeology
Jeff Blackford, Jim Innes, Peter Ryan and Peter Rowley-Conwy (University of Manchester and University of Durham, UK)
Becoming Neolithic in a wetland: fluidity, choice and the transition to agriculture in the Lower Rhine Delta (5500-2500 cal BC)
Luc Amkreutz (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
The wetlands and wetland margins of the Lower Rhine area form a rich and
‘Scotland’s Only Mainland Island’: Maritime connections in the Neolithic of Kintyre and the northern Irish Sea zone
Vicki Cummings (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Although Kintyre is actually on the mainland, it is known as ‘Scotland’s only mainland island’, and shares many characteristics with the Scottish islands which it sits amongst. In this paper I will consider the inhabitation of this particular landscape in the Neolithic, focussing on the experience of dwelling amongst these island worlds. In particular, I wish to focus on how people may have conceived of themselves in relation to the wider world, discussing expressions of connectivity as well as uniqueness.
Life, death and islands: recent investigations on Herm (Channel Islands)
Chris Scarre (Durham University, UK)
Animating the past, thinking temporally: ways of representing archaeological time
Seren Griffiths (Cardiff University)
