Neolithic Landscapes

Pete Topping was head of survey for English Heritage and is an expert in landscape interpretation. Following voluntary early retirement he returned to his main subject of research, undertaking a recently awarded PhD at Newcastle University on flint and stone extraction industries. He is on Oxbow's American Landscapes Editorial Board.

• ForewordPreface and acknowledgements1. Neolithic landscapes: Identity and definition Timothy Darvill2. Moving on and moving around: Neolithic settlement mobility Gabriel Cooney3. Images of settlement and the landscape in the Neolithic Gabriel Cooney4. The infernal ycle of fire ecology Jenny Moore5. The social construction of the Neolithic landscape of the Channel Islands Mark Patton6. The landscape of extraction: aspects of procurement of raw material in the Neolithic David Field7. NEO-"Realism?": An alternative look at the Neolithic chalkland database of Sussex Miles Russell 8. Landscape, the Neolithic and Kent Martyn Barber 9. A landscape of two halves: The Neolithic of the Chelmer Valley/Blackwater Estuary, Essex Nigel Brown 10. Neolithic settlement at Yarnton, Oxfordhsire Gill Hey 11. Different Realities: the Neolithic in the Northumberland Cheviots Peter Topping 12. Domestic settlement and the landscape during the Neolithic of the Tavoliere, S.E. Italy Keri Brown 13. The origins of tells in Eastern Hungary John Chapman