List of Figures and Tables vii

Notes on Contributors xi

Preface xv

Introduction 1

Andrew Jones

1 Frameworks for the Analysis of European Prehistory 14

Introduction 14

(a) Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers? 16

Mark Pluciennik

(b) The Celts as 'Grand Narrative' 35

John Collis

2 Landscape and Place 54

Introduction 54

(a) From Monuments in Landscape to Landscapes in Monuments: Monuments, Death and Landscape in Early Bronze Age Scandinavia 56

Joakim Goldhahn

(b) Everything in its Right Place? On Selective Deposition, Landscape and the Construction of Identity in Later Prehistory 86

David Fontijn

3 The Living House - Architecture, the Everyday and the Human Lifecycle 107

Introduction 107

(a) First Households and 'House Societies' in European Prehistory 109

Dušan Bori

(b) Domestic Times: Houses and Temporalities in Late Prehistoric Europe 143

Fokke Gerritsen

4 Materiality, Technology and Transformation - The Emergence of Novel Technologies 162

Introduction 162

(a) The Emergence of Pottery 164

Dragos Gheorghiu

(b) The Emergence of Metalworking 193

Barbara S. Ottaway and Ben Roberts

5 Death, Remembrance and the Past 226

Introduction 226

(a) Engaging Memories of European Prehistory 228

Katina T. Lillios

(b) The Past in Later Prehistory 255

Bryan Hanks

6 Identity, Community, the Body and the Person 285

Introduction 285

(a) Neolithic Bodies 287

Daniela Hofmann and Alasdair Whittle

(b) Bodies and Identities in the Scandinavian Late Iron Age 312

Ing-Marie Back Danielsson

7 Interaction, Trade and Exchange 330

Introduction 330

(a) Approaches to Trade and Exchange in Earlier Prehistory (Late Mesolithic-Early Bronze Age) 333

John Chapman

(b) Trade and Exchange in Later Prehistory 356

Peter Wells

Index 373