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Tables


Table A. Archaeological and geological periods in relation to approximate dates and the Chapters of this book. [Sources: various]

Table B. Comparison of schemes for the sub-division and periodization of the late glacial and post-glacial periods in Britain. Cold climatic phases are shown stippled. [Sources: various]

Table C. Competing philosophical traditions and theoretical trends in British prehistoric archaeology modelled as a European Cultural Dialectic showing the cycle of dominance between Enlightenment and Romanticism. [Sources: Sherratt 1996, fig. 1 and Kristiansen 2008, fig. 2 with additions]

Table D. Recorded house sizes and floor areas for dwellings dated to the fourth millennium BC in five regions of Britain. [Sources: various]

Table E. Animal species representation in assemblages dated to the fourth millennium BC from southern Britain. [Sources: various]

Table F. Grave good deposition in Beaker burials by sex. [Source: Clarke 1970, Appendix 3.3]

Table G. Summary of the main metalworking stages and industrial phases in Britain between 3000 BC and 600 BC. [Sources: Burgess 1980; Needham 1996; Needham et al. 1997]

Table H. Provisional cosmological schemes for the daily cycle of the sun based on archaeological material dating to the second millennium BC from northwest Europe. [Sources: Karl in Clark (ed) 2004, 131; Kristiansen & Larsson 2005, 306–7]

Table I. Summary of the main regional pottery styles current across Britain between the 800 BC and 200 BC. [Sources: Cunliffe 2004, with additions]

Table J. Traditional festivals and their modern counterparts. [After Burl 1983, 34 and Sermon 2001 with additions]