A Harding
Biographic Data
| ID | 22026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Harding |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Harding |
| SIGNATURE | HARDING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3183-0387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 297 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A Bronze Age salt production technique from Transylvania and western Ukraine
Across prehistoric Europe several techniques were used to produce salt, including solar evaporation and the briquetage method. Here, the authors focus on a third technique used in Romania and western Ukraine. Building on excavations at Băile Figa and a series of wooden troughs found there, the authors conduct experiments to elucidate how these objects may have been used in salt production: to drip water onto rock salt surfaces to break them up; o…
Preserved in the Peat
Preserved in the Peat: An Extraordinary Bronze Age Burial on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor, and its Wider Context, By Andy M. Jones." Archaeological Journal, 175(2), pp. 394–395
Mycenaeans in Bavaria? Amber and gold from the Bronze Age site of Bernstorf
In August 1998 the German archaeological world was stunned when two amateur archaeologists found decorated gold-sheet ornaments on a hill in Bavaria north of Munich, near a farm named Bernstorf, in the commune of Kranzberg. A Bronze Age fortified enclosure was known there, local amateurs having excavated it earlier in the 1990s; later, permission was granted for gravel extraction, trees were cleared and it was in this disturbed area that the gold…
Salt exploitation in the later prehistory of the Carpathian Basin
Salt is a necessity for humans and animals, today as in the ancient past. The ways in which salt was produced in ancient times vary from area to area, and could use briquetage, deep mining (as at Hallstatt), or the technique specific to Transylvania, based on wooden troughs, perforated in the base. How these troughs functioned is still uncertain. In the Iron Age a different technique was employed, involving deep shafts dug down to the rock salt s…
Morgawr
This paper reports on the construction of a full-scale Bronze Age-type sewn-plank boat based on the Ferriby boats. The boat, which was named Morgawr, was constructed in the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth, England, during 2012 and the first months of 2013, as part of a larger exhibition in the museum. This paper provides the background and context of the project, describes the process of building the craft, and reflects in particula…
World Systems, Cores, and Peripheries in Prehistoric Europe
The paper reviews the rise and utility of World Systems Theory in archaeology, with particular reference to Europe and the Bronze Age. After a consideration of its origins in the 1970s and 1980s, the main aspects of the theory are discussed. The evidence that shows that the Bronze Age world was highly interconnected is presented, and the implications of a World Systems view of the period considered. In an attempt to work towards a new narrative o…
War and Weaponry in Prehistoric Europe
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Towards a European archaeology
How far can there be such a thing as a ‘European archaeology’? Is this a matter of geography and recent history or does it rather reflect different discourses that take place in different parts of Europe? The contrast between a western (‘Anglo-American’) and central or eastern (‘mitteleuropäisch’) European archaeology is considered, along with recent discussions of similarities and differences across the continent. The role of the European Associ…
A conversation with Colin Renfrew (Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn)
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Stonehenge
(2007). Stonehenge: The Biography of a Landscape. By Timothy Darvill. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 164, No. 1, pp. 273-274
Understanding complex fragmented assemblages of human and animal remains
From Sickles to Circles
Hengeworld
Archaeology and ‘QAA subject review’
The authors recount their personal experience of the recent assessment of archaeology teaching in the United Kingdom
The Common Law Mind
Journal Article The Common Law Mind: Medieval and Early Modern Conceptions, J. W. Tubbs Get access Alan Harding Alan Harding Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 465, February 2001, Page 203, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.465.203 Published: 01 February 2001
European Societies in the Bronze Age
The Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 750 BC, was the last fully prehistoric period in Europe and a crucial element in the formation of the Europe that emerged into history in the later first millennium BC. This book focuses on the material culture remains of the period, and through them provides an interpretation of the main trends in human development that occurred during this timespan. It pays particular attention to the discoveries and theoretical …
Stonehenge Published
Prehistoric and Early Medieval Activity on Danby Rigg, North Yorkshire
Excavation and survey at Danby Rigg, North Yorkshire, produced evidence of activity on the site ranging from the Early Bronze Age to the Viking period. Re-excavation of a ring-cairn confirmed the account of J.C. Atkinson and enabled early bronze age radiocarbon dates to be obtained, but produced no further finds. A summary account of excavations by the Scarborough Archaeological Society on further early bronze age monuments is given. Survey in th…
Trb Culture
(1993). Trb Culture: The First Farmers of the North European Plain. By Magdalena S. Midgley. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 150, No. 1, pp. 519-520
Bronze Age World System Cycles [and Comments and Reply]
Hazleton North, Gloucestershire, 1979–82
(1991). Hazleton North, Gloucestershire, 1979–82: the excavation of a neolithic long cairn of the severn-cotswold group. By A. Saville. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 148, No. 1, pp. 298-300
Reports on Projects Funded by the Institute's Research Grants in 1988
Dolmens for the Dead
The beginning of the end
New publications addressing the age-old question of the match between Egyptian, Aegean and European chronologies in later prehistory are reviewed by an egyptologist and a prehistorian
Reports on Projects Funded by the Institute's Research Grants in 1987
The Development of Social Stratification in Bronze Age Europe [and Comments and Reply]
The emergence of a hereditary elite class in Bronze Age Europe is now widely interpreted in terms of the redistributive activities of a managerial ruling class. This fuctionalist account of elite origins goes against a uniformitarian understanding of what ruling classes do in complex societies. It also is poorly suited to the concrete evidence for Bronze Age cultures in Europe. The rise of hereditary, superordinate social strata in prehistoric Eu…
Bronze Age World System Cycles [and Comments and Reply]
Understanding complex fragmented assemblages of human and animal remains
Excavations in the Prehistoric Ritual Complex near Milfield, Northumberland
The complex of sites that forms the subject of this account lies in the extreme north-east corner of England, about 10 km south-east of the river Tweed in the parishes of Kirknewton, Ewart, Akeld and Milfield, district of Berwick-upon-Tweed, county of Northumberland (fig. 1). The sites have mainly been discovered by means of air photography, but some were recorded as earthworks in the last century while two standing stones survive to this day. Th…
World Systems, Cores, and Peripheries in Prehistoric Europe
The paper reviews the rise and utility of World Systems Theory in archaeology, with particular reference to Europe and the Bronze Age. After a consideration of its origins in the 1970s and 1980s, the main aspects of the theory are discussed. The evidence that shows that the Bronze Age world was highly interconnected is presented, and the implications of a World Systems view of the period considered. In an attempt to work towards a new narrative o…
The Mycenaeans and Europe
Morgawr
This paper reports on the construction of a full-scale Bronze Age-type sewn-plank boat based on the Ferriby boats. The boat, which was named Morgawr, was constructed in the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth, England, during 2012 and the first months of 2013, as part of a larger exhibition in the museum. This paper provides the background and context of the project, describes the process of building the craft, and reflects in particula…
Towards a European archaeology
How far can there be such a thing as a ‘European archaeology’? Is this a matter of geography and recent history or does it rather reflect different discourses that take place in different parts of Europe? The contrast between a western (‘Anglo-American’) and central or eastern (‘mitteleuropäisch’) European archaeology is considered, along with recent discussions of similarities and differences across the continent. The role of the European Associ…
Preserved in the Peat
Preserved in the Peat: An Extraordinary Bronze Age Burial on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor, and its Wider Context, By Andy M. Jones." Archaeological Journal, 175(2), pp. 394–395
Salt exploitation in the later prehistory of the Carpathian Basin
Salt is a necessity for humans and animals, today as in the ancient past. The ways in which salt was produced in ancient times vary from area to area, and could use briquetage, deep mining (as at Hallstatt), or the technique specific to Transylvania, based on wooden troughs, perforated in the base. How these troughs functioned is still uncertain. In the Iron Age a different technique was employed, involving deep shafts dug down to the rock salt s…
A conversation with Colin Renfrew (Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Bronze Age salt production technique from Transylvania and western Ukraine
Across prehistoric Europe several techniques were used to produce salt, including solar evaporation and the briquetage method. Here, the authors focus on a third technique used in Romania and western Ukraine. Building on excavations at Băile Figa and a series of wooden troughs found there, the authors conduct experiments to elucidate how these objects may have been used in salt production: to drip water onto rock salt surfaces to break them up; o…
Archaeology and ‘QAA subject review’
The authors recount their personal experience of the recent assessment of archaeology teaching in the United Kingdom
Prehistoric and Early Medieval Activity on Danby Rigg, North Yorkshire
Excavation and survey at Danby Rigg, North Yorkshire, produced evidence of activity on the site ranging from the Early Bronze Age to the Viking period. Re-excavation of a ring-cairn confirmed the account of J.C. Atkinson and enabled early bronze age radiocarbon dates to be obtained, but produced no further finds. A summary account of excavations by the Scarborough Archaeological Society on further early bronze age monuments is given. Survey in th…
Illyrians, Italians and Mycenaeans
Harding Anthony F. Illyrians, Italians and Mycenaeans : Trans-Adriatic contacts during the Late Bronze Age. In: Iliria, vol. 4, 1976. Premier colloque des Etudes Illyriennes (Tirana 15-20 septembre 1972) – 1. pp. 157-162
The Bronze Age in Europe
This book provides an account of the development of European culture and society during the Bronze Age, the time span between c. 2000 and 700 BC. It was a period of remarkable innovation, seen for instance in the development and growth of metallurgy as a major industry, the spread of trading contacts, the origins of urbanism and the beginnings of social stratification. The study is divided chronologically into two, the earlier and later Bronze Ag…
Excavations in the Prehistoric Ritual Complex near Milfield, Northumberland
The complex of sites that forms the subject of this account lies in the extreme north-east corner of England, about 10 km south-east of the river Tweed in the parishes of Kirknewton, Ewart, Akeld and Milfield, district of Berwick-upon-Tweed, county of Northumberland (fig. 1). The sites have mainly been discovered by means of air photography, but some were recorded as earthworks in the last century while two standing stones survive to this day. Th…
The Development of Social Stratification in Bronze Age Europe [and Comments and Reply]
The emergence of a hereditary elite class in Bronze Age Europe is now widely interpreted in terms of the redistributive activities of a managerial ruling class. This fuctionalist account of elite origins goes against a uniformitarian understanding of what ruling classes do in complex societies. It also is poorly suited to the concrete evidence for Bronze Age cultures in Europe. The rise of hereditary, superordinate social strata in prehistoric Eu…
Responses to Climatic Change
The Mycenaeans and Europe
Reports on Projects Funded by the Institute's Research Grants in 1987
Reports on Projects Funded by the Institute's Research Grants in 1988
Dolmens for the Dead
The beginning of the end
New publications addressing the age-old question of the match between Egyptian, Aegean and European chronologies in later prehistory are reviewed by an egyptologist and a prehistorian
Hazleton North, Gloucestershire, 1979–82
(1991). Hazleton North, Gloucestershire, 1979–82: the excavation of a neolithic long cairn of the severn-cotswold group. By A. Saville. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 148, No. 1, pp. 298-300
Trb Culture
(1993). Trb Culture: The First Farmers of the North European Plain. By Magdalena S. Midgley. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 150, No. 1, pp. 519-520
Bronze Age World System Cycles [and Comments and Reply]
Prehistoric and Early Medieval Activity on Danby Rigg, North Yorkshire
Excavation and survey at Danby Rigg, North Yorkshire, produced evidence of activity on the site ranging from the Early Bronze Age to the Viking period. Re-excavation of a ring-cairn confirmed the account of J.C. Atkinson and enabled early bronze age radiocarbon dates to be obtained, but produced no further finds. A summary account of excavations by the Scarborough Archaeological Society on further early bronze age monuments is given. Survey in th…
Stonehenge Published
European Societies in the Bronze Age
The Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 750 BC, was the last fully prehistoric period in Europe and a crucial element in the formation of the Europe that emerged into history in the later first millennium BC. This book focuses on the material culture remains of the period, and through them provides an interpretation of the main trends in human development that occurred during this timespan. It pays particular attention to the discoveries and theoretical …
The Common Law Mind
Journal Article The Common Law Mind: Medieval and Early Modern Conceptions, J. W. Tubbs Get access Alan Harding Alan Harding Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 465, February 2001, Page 203, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.465.203 Published: 01 February 2001
Archaeology and ‘QAA subject review’
The authors recount their personal experience of the recent assessment of archaeology teaching in the United Kingdom
Hengeworld
Understanding complex fragmented assemblages of human and animal remains
From Sickles to Circles
Stonehenge
(2007). Stonehenge: The Biography of a Landscape. By Timothy Darvill. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 164, No. 1, pp. 273-274
A conversation with Colin Renfrew (Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Towards a European archaeology
How far can there be such a thing as a ‘European archaeology’? Is this a matter of geography and recent history or does it rather reflect different discourses that take place in different parts of Europe? The contrast between a western (‘Anglo-American’) and central or eastern (‘mitteleuropäisch’) European archaeology is considered, along with recent discussions of similarities and differences across the continent. The role of the European Associ…
War and Weaponry in Prehistoric Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Archaeology (22 works) · History (21 works) · Geography (19 works) · History (16 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 works) · Ancient history (12 works) · Bronze Age (12 works) · Prehistory (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Bronze (8 works)