The gravel terraces of the river Thames have revealed a wealth of archaeological information about the evolution of the landscape of the region, the development of the settlement pattern, and past human occupation. This volume provides an up to date overview of the archaeological evidence from the valley for the late Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods.
The gravel terraces of the river Thames have revealed a wealth of archaeological information about the evolution of the landscape of the region, the d...
In common with other volumes in the "Thames Through Time" series, this account of the Thames Valley in the millennium and a half before the Roman conquest seeks to examine change in human society from a thematic point of view. The geographical and chronological framework for this volume is established in Chapters 1 and 2, but thereafter we have tried to get away from the traditional, somewhat artificial pigeon-holes of 'periods', 'ages', 'eras', and 'phases' to look much harder at how change in human society actually works. In a period when the 20th century has come to dominate secondary...
In common with other volumes in the "Thames Through Time" series, this account of the Thames Valley in the millennium and a half before the Roman conq...