Gathering Time Dating the Early Neolithic Enclosures of Southern Britain and Ireland - Whittle, A. W. R. 1949- (Oxbow Books, 2011)
Gathering Time Volume 1; Authors' note; Acknowledgements; The archive; Summary; Résumé; Zusammenfassung; Abbreviated list of figures; Abbreviated list of tables; Contributors; 1 Gathering time: causewayed enclosures and the early Neolithic of southern Britainand of Ireland; 2 Towards generational time-scales: the quantitative interpretation of archaeological chronologies; 3 The North Wiltshire Downs; 4 South Wessex; 5 Sussex; 6 Eastern England; 7 The Greater Thames estuary; 8 The Thames valley; 9 The Cotswolds; 10 The south-west peninsula; Gatherting Time Volume 2
11 The Marches, south Wales and the Isle of Man12 Ireland; 13 Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope values of animals and humans from causewayed enclosures; 14 Neolithic narratives: British and Irish enclosures in their timescapes; 15 Gathering time: the social dynamics of change; Appendix: Some unanswered research questions for southern British enclosures; Bibliography; Index
Gathering Time presents the results of a major dating programme that re-writes the early Neolithic of Britain by more accurately dating enclosures, a phenomenon that first appeared in the early Neolithic: places of construction, labour, assembly, ritual and deposition. The project has combined hundreds of new radiocarbon dates with hundreds of existing dates, using a Bayesian statistical framework. Such formal chronological modelling is essential if significantly more precise and robust date estimates are to be achieved than those currently available from informal inspection of calibrated radi