The Undiscovered Country: The Earlier Prehistory of the West MidlandsPaul Garwood This is the first volume in a series - The Making of the West Midlands - that explores the archaeology of the English West Midlands region from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Industrial Revolution. These books, based on the West Midlands Research Framework seminars held in 2002-3, aim to transform perceptions of the nature and significance of the archaeological evidence across a large part of central Britain, in an area extending from the plains of eastern England to the Cambrian Mountains and from the Cotswolds to the southern Pennines. The earlier prehistory of the region, in particular, has been neglected at a national level and deserves far wider recognition in research terms. This first volume reveals the scale, richness and diversity of the evidence from all earlier prehistoric periods in the West Midlands, from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age, and considers its research significance and potential. The book is copiously illustrated, and includes a large number of colour maps and plans. |
Contents
The Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology of the West Midlands Andy Myers | 23 |
Priorities in Mesolithic Neolithic and Bronze Age environmental archaeology | 39 |
an overview Keith Ray | 51 |
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