Alasdair Whittle

The Early Neolithic

Vicki Cummings, Alasdair Whittle

Place, time, memory, settlement, social relationships and dealing with the dead – important and recurrent themes in the Early Neolithic – are all evoked in the long cairn at Hazleton North in Gloucestershire. Fully excavated to a very high standard ( Saville …

The Middle and Late Neolithic

Susan Greaney, Alasdair Whittle

Some nine centuries comprise the later part of the Neolithic as defined here, from around 3300 to around 2400 cal BC. This period, conventionally defined as the Middle and Late Neolithic, shows considerable diversity and change across Britain, but also some strong …

The politics of early Neolithic connectivity: Relations between Britain and Ireland

Alasdair Whittle

Abstract While recent aDNA and other scientific analysis has served to underline the recurrent role of migration in the process of Neolithisation right across Europe, there remains plenty of scope for better integration of archaeogenetic and archaeological interpretations and for detailed narratives …

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The uncertain frontier

Eszter Bánffy, Alasdair Whittle

Long archaeological debate on the process of Neolithisation across Europe has been resolved at a broad level, thanks to aDNA and other scientific investigations, in favour of significant migrations virtually everywhere. This development has coincided with the establishment of more robust and …

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Kinship questions

Alasdair Whittle

Kinship, diverse webs of relationship generated by people in their social practice, has long been analysed and debated by anthropologists, from an earlier dominance of lineage theory to the current, much more fluid emphasis on relatedness. Since the days of processualism, archaeologists …

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Ancient DNA and modelling the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Britain and Ireland

Alison Sheridan, Alasdair Whittle

Introduction:

Alasdair Whittle, Joshua Pollard

The first stones:

Alasdair Whittle, William J. Britnell, Seren Griffiths

Penywyrlod and Gwernvale Neolithic long cairns:

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A history of the LBK in the central Polish lowlands

Alasdair Whittle, Arkadiusz Marciniak, Joanna Pyzel, Marta Krueger et autres

Abstract A new chronological study of the LBK in the central Polish lowlands shows that it emerged later, lasted for a shorter period, and ended sooner than has been supposed up till now. LBK communities emerged, probably in the middle of the …

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Some Balaton-Lasinja Graves from Veszprém-Jutasi Út and an Outline Chronology for the Earlier Copper Age in Western Hungary

Judit Regenye, Krisztián Oross, Eszter Bánffy, Elaine Dunbar et autres

A handful of new radiocarbon dates from three Balaton-Lasinja culture graves at the site of Veszprém-Jutasi út in western Hungary form the starting point for formal models for late Lengyel and post-Lengyel chronology in that region. The graves date to the later …

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Landscapes for Neolithic People in Mainland, Orkney

M. Jane Bunting, Michelle E. Farrell, Elaine Dunbar, Paula J. Reimer et autres

Abstract Neolithic occupation of the Orkney Islands, in the north of Scotland, probably began in the mid fourth millennium cal BC, culminating in a range of settlements, including stone-built houses, varied stone-built tombs and two noteworthy stone circles. The environmental and landscape …

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