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Creating society and constructing the past : social change in the Thames Valley from the Late Bronze Age to the Middle Iron Age / Alex Davies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, Alex (Alexander John), author.
- Series:
- BAR British series ; 637.
- BAR British series ; 637
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bronze age--England--Thames Valley.
- Bronze age.
- Iron age--England--Thames Valley.
- Iron age.
- Antiquities, Prehistoric--England--Thames Valley.
- Antiquities, Prehistoric.
- Social change--England--Thames Valley.
- Social change.
- Thames Valley (England)--Antiquities.
- Thames Valley (England).
- Thames Valley (England)--Social life and customs.
- Antiquities.
- Manners and customs.
- England--Thames Valley.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 275 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).
- Other Title:
- Social change in the Thames Valley from the Late Bronze Age to the Middle Iron Age
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2018.
- Summary:
- This book gives a new account of society and social change in the upper and middle Thames Valley from the Late Bronze Age to Middle Iron Age, 1150-100 BC. A model is developed from social anthropological case studies setting out expectations on how societies are structured based on certain material manifestations. Patterns are found within the wide range of types of evidence that are integrated and synthesised. The main interpretation offered is that Late Bronze Age societies were fluid and unstructured by either social status differences or lineage identities, whereas Early Iron Age communities were more concerned with ancestral genealogy and inter-generational inheritance. By the Middle Iron Age, communal aspects of ritual practice and material practice were largely replaced by local and household concerns in which smaller groups displayed increasing autonomy from each other.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2018.
- "With additional material online"--Cover.
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Cardiff University), which was presented under title: Social organisation in the Upper and Middle Thames Valley from the Late Bronze Age to the Middle Iron Age.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9781407323237
- 1407323237
- OCLC:
- 1257273510
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