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Overview
This book employs contemporary theoretical perspectives to investigate the Neolithic period in southern britain. It is a fully reworked edition of the author's Rethinking the Neolithic (1991).
Synopsis
While thoroughly examining the archaeological data of the Neolithic period in Southern Britain, Julian Thomas exposes the assumptions and prejudices which have shaped archaeologists' accounts of the distant past, and presents fresh interpretations informed by social theory, anthropology and critical hermeneutics. It is a fully reworked edition of the author's Rethinking the Neolithic (1991).