'What do we collect and seek to interpret?' : fossils in Neolithic and Bronze Age contexts in Britain and Ireland
A PhD thesis which draws together the evidence for the occurrence of fossil objects in archaeological sites in Great Britain and Ireland during the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. The wider contexts of fossils discovered in sites of the same period in Europe and of fossils discovered in earlier periods (Palaeolithic and Mesolithic) are also discussed. This is also a re-examination and update of the work of Kenneth Oakley and as such investigates the folklore of fossils. The use of fossiliferous stone for lithics is also considered.
Leeming, Peter Joseph
Archaeology of fossils
'What do we collect and seek to interpret?' : fossils in Neolithic and Bronze Age contexts in Britain and Ireland. A PhD thesis which draws together the evidence for the occurrence of fossil objects in archaeological sites in Great Britain and Ireland during the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. The wider contexts of fossils discovered in sites of the same period in Europe and of fossils discovered in earlier periods (Palaeolithic and Mesolithic) are also discussed. This is also a re-examination and update of the work of Kenneth Oakley and as such investigates the folklore of fossils. The use of fossiliferous stone for lithics is also considered.
what collect seek interpret fossil neolithic_bronze_age context britain_ireland phd draw_together evidence occurrence fossil object archaeological_site great_britain_ireland neolithic chalcolithic_bronze_age wider_context fossil discover site period europe discover earlier periods palaeolithic mesolithic also_discuss also re_examination update work investigate folklore fossil use stone lithics also_consider