Evolution of a community : the colonisation of a clay inland landscape : Neolithic to post-medieval remains excavated between 1995 and 2011 at Longstanton in Cambridgeshire
Record details
- ISBN: 9781784910877
- ISBN: 1784910872
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Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
remote - Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
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General Note: | Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Target Audience Note: | Specialized. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 16, 2016). |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. History. |
Summary:
The movement of people from the fen edge and river valleys into the clay lands of eastern England has become a growing area of research. The opportunity of studying such an environment and investigating the human activities that took place there became available 9 km to the north-west of Cambridge at the village of Longstanton. The archaeological excavations that took place over a 16 year period have made a significant contribution to charting the emergence of a Cambridgeshire clayland settlement and its community over six millennia. 'Evolution of a Community' chronologically documents the colonisation of this clay inland location and outlines how it was not an area on the periphery of activity, but part of a fully occupied landscape extending back into the Mesolithic period.