Contents
Preface
Mike Parker Pearson and Mats Larsson ix
Part 1 - Material culture diversity in the Baltic
Chapter 1 Walking on the wild side: on cultural diversity and the Pitted Ware Culture along the Swedish east coast during the Middle Neolithic I Kerstin Lide'n and Gimilla Eriksson Chapter 2 Regional development or external influences? The Battle Axe period in south-western Scandinavia 11 Lars Larsson
Chapter 3 The guardians and protectors of mind: ritual structures in the Middle Neolithic of southern Sweden 17 Mats Larsson
Chapter 4 Shaping an identity: potters and pottery of the Pitted Ware Culture 25 Ludvig Papmehl-Dnfay
Chapter 5 Why use different raw materials? Raw material use during the Late Mesolithic to Middle Neolithic along the coast of Kalmarsund 35 Kenneth Alexandersson
Part 2 - British Beaker burials and the Beaker People Project
Chapter 6 Isotopic aliens: Beaker movement and cultural transmissions 41 Stuart Needham
Chapter 7 A Beaker veneer? Some evidence from the burial record 47 Alex Gibson
Chapter 8 Foragers, farmers or foreigners? An assessment of dietary strontium isotope variation in Middle Neolithic and Early Bronze Age East Yorkshire 65 Janet Montgomery, Rachel Cooper and Jane Evans
Chapter 9 The Beaker People Project: progress and prospects for the carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotopic analysis of collagen 77 Mandy Jay and Michael Richards
Chapter 10 Microwear studies of diet in Early Bronze Age burials from Scotland 83 Patrick Mahoney
Chapter 11 Scottish Beaker dates: the good, the bad and the ugly 91 Alison Sheridan Part 3 - Stonehenge and the Stonehenge Riverside Project
TheTtonelfenge Riverside Project: excavations at the east entrance of Durrington Walls 125 Mike Parker Pearson
TheTnlemal features at Durrington Walls: investigations in the Southern Circle and Western Enclosures 2005-2006..., •• l45 Julian Thomas
Chapter 14 A return to Woodhenge: the results and implications of the 2006 excavations 159 Joshua Pollard and David Robinson
Chapter 15 Units of measurement in Late Neolithic southern Britain 169 Andrew Chamberlain and Mike Parker Pearson
Chapter 16 Sionehenge - Olenok, Siberia: universals or different phenomena? Ethnoarchaeological observations of a midsummer rite 175 Olc (iron and Maria Magdalena Kosko
Chapter 17 M<.>i!iihv.-i!!.'t' its landscape and architecture: a re-analysis 183 ('•>ri\ii>i>/hr lillcv. Colin Richards, Wayne Bennett and David Field
Chapter 18 Neolithic phallacies: a discussion of some southern British artefacts 205 Anne leather
Part 4 Research on other Neolithic World Heritage Sites in Britain and Ireland
Chapter 19 The lithic landscape of the Newgrange environs: an introduction 213 Conor Brady
Chapter 20 " iif IIIMM ol Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site: building a landscape 221 \h '• ( md. ./<