Documenting the results of some ten years of fieldwork, this volume explores the prehistoric occupation of a small valley near Broom, on the Bedfordshire gravels. It traces a biography of the landscape from the later Mesolithic through to the Iron Age, a sequence that saw profound changes in the character, scale and temporality of occupation. Undertaken in advance of gravel extraction, the scale of the fieldwork reported here made it possibe to track not only the sequence of occupation, but also how prehistoric communities encountered, appropriated or ignored the 'archaeology' of their time. Set against sequences from across southern England, this work sheds important light on the relationship between local histories and broader processes, and on the complex and geographically varied ways in which the past itself was understood in the past.
- ISBN10 0954482441
- ISBN13 9780954482442
- Publish Date 6 December 2007 (first published 10 October 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cambridge Archaeological Unit
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 282
- Language English