Neolithic Horizons

Monuments and Changing Communities in the Wessex Landscape

David & Mcomish, David Field, David McOmish

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Fonthill Media Ltd
21 April 2016

History; Prehistoric archaeology

Neolithic Horizons investigates some of our most remarkable and iconic archaeological sites: the great public monuments at Stonehenge and Avebury and others like them and places them within their landscape context-the rolling chalklands of Wessex.

Rightly famous the world over, these monuments are complemented by less well-known, contemporary, foci such as the earthen circles at Knowlton, in Dorset, or Marden, in Wiltshire and seen to be part of an earth-shifting tradition that extended right across the region and traced back to our very earliest monuments, long barrows and causewayed enclosures. After Stonehenge, the tradition continued with the construction of enormous numbers of circular burial mounds along the river valleys and hillsides.

Indeed, few other regions in Europe can match the scale and intensity of development at these ceremonial complexes.

These locations, places of ritual, must nevertheless be viewed as part of a wider landscape; one where features of the land are continually changing according to the influence of local inhabitants.

Whilst charting a remarkable archaeological legacy, this book reveals the developing landscape of grassland, settlements and fields; the product of the early farming communities who lived their lives in the shadow of the monuments.

By: David & Mcomish David Field, David McOmish
Imprint: Fonthill Media Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9781781552995
ISBN 10: 1781552991
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 21 April 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

As Archaeological Investigators for the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England and subsequently English Heritage, the authors spent well over 20 years working on the archaeological landscapes of southern England. During that time all the major monuments of the Neolithic period were investigated, Avebury, Stonehenge, Silbury Hill, and their particular brand of earthwork analysis and landscape investigation provides a unique large-scale interpretation of the period. They have prepared numerous reports and journal articles on the subject and written the definitive publication on The field archaeology of Salisbury Plain Training Area as well as a companion volume The Avebury Landscape.