
Passage of the Thames
Holocene Environment and Settlement at Runnymede
British Museum Press
Published on 14. May 2001
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-0-7141-2315-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume serves as an anchor in the "Runnymede Research" publication series. In reconstructing a substantial history of changing Holocene environment for the local catchment of the middle Thames valley, it provides context for the various phases of cultural activity on the Runnymede Bridge site (Surrey - formerly Berkshire). At the same time it sets out the evidence for the chronology of those phases in terms of stratigraphic position, archaeological comparanda and independent dating. The quantity of data relating to the two main phases of occupation, in the Middle Neolithic and late Bronze Age, is only summarized here, but material from other phases is given fuller attention.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
14 b/w pls, many b/w figs, tbs
Dimensions
Height: 282 mm
Width: 224 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
1252 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7141-2315-8 (9780714123158)
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Persons
Stuart Needham is an independent researcher specialising in Bronze Age archaeology. He was previously Curator of European Bronze Age antiquities at the British Museum.
Content
Stratigraphic sequences through Holocene alluvial deposits; cultural material, charcoal and wood remains; scientific dating evidence; sediment analysis and soil micromorphology; soil phosphate analyses of column samples; molluscan evidence for past environments; Middle Mesolithic to late Bronze Age insect assemblages and an early Neolithic assemblage of waterlogged macroscopic plant remains; palynology and palaeoenvironment; an alluvial site history -environment, topography and human interaction; river and bank - the changing riverscape.