Vicki Cummings
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 106133 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Vicki Cummings |
| PRENOMES | Vicki |
| SOBRENOME | Cummings |
| ASSINATURA | CUMMINGS V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Lancashire |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9460-1517 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 114 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Building tombs and entombing the dead as technologies of descent and affinity in Neolithic northern Scotland
When grounded within relevant archaeological contexts, ancient DNA analysis can provide critical insights into prehistoric human populations. This is demonstrated in this article, where the authors examine the genetic relatedness of individuals whose remains were placed in five Neolithic tombs in Caithness and Orkney, northern Scotland. The results reveal a web of biological ties that, the authors argue, suggests sustained contact between these c…
Materialising Descent
This paper builds on the recent aDNA results from Hazleton North chambered tomb to explore how people might have repeatedly negotiated kinship, descent, and affinity in Early Neolithic southern Britain. Hazleton North was constructed around 3700 cal bc , was in use for less than a century, and – unlike many other Cotswold-Severn tombs – was never modified to alter the arrangement of chambers. The aDNA analysis from 35 individuals whose remains we…
An Archaeology of Nuclear Power
This chapter details an archaeological approach to sites in the nuclear industry. Set against a background of a consideration of Cold War sites more generally, the chapter suggests that nuclear sites have seen little investigation because many are still in use. Furthermore, there are associated risks of contamination (radiation) along with security issues to consider. However, the effects of nuclear sites can be documented, in terms of how they a…
Muddying the Waters
This paper explores the current narratives of migration for the start and spread of the Neolithic with a particular focus on the role that the new ancient DNA data have provided. While the genetic data are important and instructive, here it is argued that archaeologists should also consider other strands of evidence. More nuanced appreciations of migration as a long-term process can be created by exploring modern mobility studies alongside consid…
Early Islamic North Africa
This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…
Sources of flint in Britain and Ireland
Neolithic Explanations Revisited
Set against the new chronological framework for the introduction and spread of the Neolithic into Britain this paper considers the logistics of introducing domestic cattle from continental Europe. Cattle were the most extensively utilised domestic animal at the start of the Neolithic and understanding the processes behind their introduction is critical for exploring early Neolithic farming systems. We begin by exploring the realities of creating …
The Neolithic of Europe
The Neolithic of the Irish Sea
This collection of 24 papers aims to reconsider the nature and significance of the Irish Sea as an area of cultural interaction during the Neolithic period. The traditional character of work across this region has emphasised the existence of prehistoric contact, with sea routes criss-crossing between Ireland, the Isle of Man, Anglesey and the British mainland. A parallel course of investigation, however, has demonstrated that the British and Iris…
The Life and Times of a Chambered Tomb
Clyde cairns are a distinctive form of early Neolithic burial monument found in western Scotland. However, there have been no detailed investigations of these sites for many decades. Knowledge of early Neolithic monumentality in this region remains limited and reliant on parallels with better-known sequences in southern Britain and in Ireland. New research questions have recently arisen which explore the date of the construction of megalithic sit…
Stone Tool Technology
Stone artefacts comprise the most abundant and most ubiquitous sources of evidence for the evolution of hominin behaviour during the Pleistocene. Changes in the ways stone artefacts were made and used over the past 2.5 million years document a number of trends in the evolution of behaviour and behavioural capacities, ranging from scales of land use to cognition. Time-lags between the earliest appearance of a particular method or technique and its…
New Approaches in the Study of Hunter-Gatherers
Archaeogenetics of Africa and of the African Hunter-Gatherers
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers
For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspecti…
Prehistoric Hunter-gatherer Innovations
For a number of reasons, hunter-gatherers have generally been regarded as rather timeless and unchanging societies, lacking an inherent capacity for innovation and transformation. Consequently, cultural developments impacting on foraging societies have often been traced back to external sources, and not linked to the internal dynamics of hunter-gatherer societies. This section draws on a wide range of archaeological case-studies in order to under…
Hunting and Gathering in a Farmers' World
Hunter-Gatherers in the Post-Glacial World
The Continuity of Hunting and Gathering in the Neolithic and Beyond in Britain and Ireland
This paper considers the continuity of hunting and gathering practices at a time when people were involved in agricultural production (the Neolithic). The paper focuses primarily on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, the period when people first adopted farming, pottery, and monumental construction in Britain and Ireland. However, instead of this being a straightforward transition from hunting and gathering to farming, a much more complex proce…
The Maritime Identities of Communities Colonizing Norway
The colonization of the northernmost parts of Europe is one of the most exciting periods of prehistory to consider. This was a time when previously inhospitable ecozones were opening up, new forms of flora and fauna were becoming established and people were encountering new and unoccupied landscapes (Spikins 2008). While the people involved almost certainly had a different view on this process from ourselves, nevertheless they would have known th…
What lies beneath
This article considers the interpretation of stone and wood in Neolithic chambered tomb architecture in Britain and Ireland. Against a broader theoretical agenda of both relational materialities and animistic ontologies, it is argued that the qualities and essences of stones dictated their choice and use in monuments. Essentially, it was the hidden natures of stones which gave them meaning, and as archaeologists we can explore this through unders…
Animals, People and Places
This article considers the long-debated and thorny issue of the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in Britain. The apparently polarised debate that has dominated this discussion is, we suggest, unhelpful, and rather than positing either total colonisation from abroad, or simple indigenous continuity, we propose a model where both incomers and autochthons had their part to play. To explore this further we trace continuities across the…
Animals, People and Places
This article considers the long-debated and thorny issue of the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in Britain. The apparently polarised debate that has dominated this discussion is, we suggest, unhelpful, and rather than positing either total colonisation from abroad, or simple indigenous continuity, we propose a model where both incomers and autochthons had their part to play. To explore this further we trace continuities across the…
Tombs with a view
The authors consider the impact that trees would have had on the visibility of the landscape from and around Neolithic monuments. It is suggested that woodland may have been an integral part of the way monuments were experienced
Places Of Transformation
Using the Irish Sea area as a case-study, we argue that both sites and landscapes can be understood as containing a series of components procured from the landscape and from human, animal, and object bodies. These components were organized in a way that commented on and related to specific cultural relationships between these different locations and through the substances found within them. This idea is explored by examining Neolithic monuments, …
Experiencing Texture and Transformation in the British Neolithic
The Neolithic period saw the introduction of new material culture into Britain, including monuments, pottery and polished stone axes. Over recent years, the uses and meanings of these objects and places have been considered in depth, with emphasis now firmly placed upon their social role and symbolic value. However, a growing interest in a multi–sensual archaeology has highlighted the paucity of information concerning the role of texture in the e…
Animals, People and Places
This article considers the long-debated and thorny issue of the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in Britain. The apparently polarised debate that has dominated this discussion is, we suggest, unhelpful, and rather than positing either total colonisation from abroad, or simple indigenous continuity, we propose a model where both incomers and autochthons had their part to play. To explore this further we trace continuities across the…
Experiencing Texture and Transformation in the British Neolithic
The Neolithic period saw the introduction of new material culture into Britain, including monuments, pottery and polished stone axes. Over recent years, the uses and meanings of these objects and places have been considered in depth, with emphasis now firmly placed upon their social role and symbolic value. However, a growing interest in a multi–sensual archaeology has highlighted the paucity of information concerning the role of texture in the e…
Places Of Transformation
Using the Irish Sea area as a case-study, we argue that both sites and landscapes can be understood as containing a series of components procured from the landscape and from human, animal, and object bodies. These components were organized in a way that commented on and related to specific cultural relationships between these different locations and through the substances found within them. This idea is explored by examining Neolithic monuments, …
Divided Places
Recent years have seen increasing interest in the experience of prehistoric monuments. This article explores the possibility that the construction and experience of early Neolithic chambered cairns in South Wales was grounded in principles of asymmetry and sidedness. This was reflected in their landscape setting, architecture, and was actively drawn on through time in patterns of structured deposition. Ultimately, we conclude that the differences…
Tombs with a view
The authors consider the impact that trees would have had on the visibility of the landscape from and around Neolithic monuments. It is suggested that woodland may have been an integral part of the way monuments were experienced
Between Mountains and Sea
For many years the chambered tombs of south-west Scotland were considered important in understanding the origins of monumentality in Britain. In particular scholars focused on the classification of these monuments in order to understand how ideas about the Neolithic may have spread along and across the Irish Sea. However, the classification of these monuments may be rather more problematic than was once imagined. Among other things, the excavatio…
Animals, People and Places
This article considers the long-debated and thorny issue of the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in Britain. The apparently polarised debate that has dominated this discussion is, we suggest, unhelpful, and rather than positing either total colonisation from abroad, or simple indigenous continuity, we propose a model where both incomers and autochthons had their part to play. To explore this further we trace continuities across the…
Materialising Descent
This paper builds on the recent aDNA results from Hazleton North chambered tomb to explore how people might have repeatedly negotiated kinship, descent, and affinity in Early Neolithic southern Britain. Hazleton North was constructed around 3700 cal bc , was in use for less than a century, and – unlike many other Cotswold-Severn tombs – was never modified to alter the arrangement of chambers. The aDNA analysis from 35 individuals whose remains we…
Neolithic Explanations Revisited
Set against the new chronological framework for the introduction and spread of the Neolithic into Britain this paper considers the logistics of introducing domestic cattle from continental Europe. Cattle were the most extensively utilised domestic animal at the start of the Neolithic and understanding the processes behind their introduction is critical for exploring early Neolithic farming systems. We begin by exploring the realities of creating …
The Life and Times of a Chambered Tomb
Clyde cairns are a distinctive form of early Neolithic burial monument found in western Scotland. However, there have been no detailed investigations of these sites for many decades. Knowledge of early Neolithic monumentality in this region remains limited and reliant on parallels with better-known sequences in southern Britain and in Ireland. New research questions have recently arisen which explore the date of the construction of megalithic sit…
Prehistoric Hunter-gatherer Innovations
For a number of reasons, hunter-gatherers have generally been regarded as rather timeless and unchanging societies, lacking an inherent capacity for innovation and transformation. Consequently, cultural developments impacting on foraging societies have often been traced back to external sources, and not linked to the internal dynamics of hunter-gatherer societies. This section draws on a wide range of archaeological case-studies in order to under…
What lies beneath
This article considers the interpretation of stone and wood in Neolithic chambered tomb architecture in Britain and Ireland. Against a broader theoretical agenda of both relational materialities and animistic ontologies, it is argued that the qualities and essences of stones dictated their choice and use in monuments. Essentially, it was the hidden natures of stones which gave them meaning, and as archaeologists we can explore this through unders…
Hunting and Gathering in a Farmers' World
Hunter-Gatherers in the Post-Glacial World
Sources of flint in Britain and Ireland
Experiencing Texture and Transformation in the British Neolithic
The Neolithic period saw the introduction of new material culture into Britain, including monuments, pottery and polished stone axes. Over recent years, the uses and meanings of these objects and places have been considered in depth, with emphasis now firmly placed upon their social role and symbolic value. However, a growing interest in a multi–sensual archaeology has highlighted the paucity of information concerning the role of texture in the e…
Between Mountains and Sea
For many years the chambered tombs of south-west Scotland were considered important in understanding the origins of monumentality in Britain. In particular scholars focused on the classification of these monuments in order to understand how ideas about the Neolithic may have spread along and across the Irish Sea. However, the classification of these monuments may be rather more problematic than was once imagined. Among other things, the excavatio…
Divided Places
Recent years have seen increasing interest in the experience of prehistoric monuments. This article explores the possibility that the construction and experience of early Neolithic chambered cairns in South Wales was grounded in principles of asymmetry and sidedness. This was reflected in their landscape setting, architecture, and was actively drawn on through time in patterns of structured deposition. Ultimately, we conclude that the differences…
Tombs with a view
The authors consider the impact that trees would have had on the visibility of the landscape from and around Neolithic monuments. It is suggested that woodland may have been an integral part of the way monuments were experienced
Places Of Transformation
Using the Irish Sea area as a case-study, we argue that both sites and landscapes can be understood as containing a series of components procured from the landscape and from human, animal, and object bodies. These components were organized in a way that commented on and related to specific cultural relationships between these different locations and through the substances found within them. This idea is explored by examining Neolithic monuments, …
Animals, People and Places
This article considers the long-debated and thorny issue of the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in Britain. The apparently polarised debate that has dominated this discussion is, we suggest, unhelpful, and rather than positing either total colonisation from abroad, or simple indigenous continuity, we propose a model where both incomers and autochthons had their part to play. To explore this further we trace continuities across the…
Animals, People and Places
This article considers the long-debated and thorny issue of the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in Britain. The apparently polarised debate that has dominated this discussion is, we suggest, unhelpful, and rather than positing either total colonisation from abroad, or simple indigenous continuity, we propose a model where both incomers and autochthons had their part to play. To explore this further we trace continuities across the…
What lies beneath
This article considers the interpretation of stone and wood in Neolithic chambered tomb architecture in Britain and Ireland. Against a broader theoretical agenda of both relational materialities and animistic ontologies, it is argued that the qualities and essences of stones dictated their choice and use in monuments. Essentially, it was the hidden natures of stones which gave them meaning, and as archaeologists we can explore this through unders…
The Continuity of Hunting and Gathering in the Neolithic and Beyond in Britain and Ireland
This paper considers the continuity of hunting and gathering practices at a time when people were involved in agricultural production (the Neolithic). The paper focuses primarily on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, the period when people first adopted farming, pottery, and monumental construction in Britain and Ireland. However, instead of this being a straightforward transition from hunting and gathering to farming, a much more complex proce…
The Maritime Identities of Communities Colonizing Norway
The colonization of the northernmost parts of Europe is one of the most exciting periods of prehistory to consider. This was a time when previously inhospitable ecozones were opening up, new forms of flora and fauna were becoming established and people were encountering new and unoccupied landscapes (Spikins 2008). While the people involved almost certainly had a different view on this process from ourselves, nevertheless they would have known th…
Stone Tool Technology
Stone artefacts comprise the most abundant and most ubiquitous sources of evidence for the evolution of hominin behaviour during the Pleistocene. Changes in the ways stone artefacts were made and used over the past 2.5 million years document a number of trends in the evolution of behaviour and behavioural capacities, ranging from scales of land use to cognition. Time-lags between the earliest appearance of a particular method or technique and its…
New Approaches in the Study of Hunter-Gatherers
Archaeogenetics of Africa and of the African Hunter-Gatherers
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers
For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspecti…
Prehistoric Hunter-gatherer Innovations
For a number of reasons, hunter-gatherers have generally been regarded as rather timeless and unchanging societies, lacking an inherent capacity for innovation and transformation. Consequently, cultural developments impacting on foraging societies have often been traced back to external sources, and not linked to the internal dynamics of hunter-gatherer societies. This section draws on a wide range of archaeological case-studies in order to under…
Hunting and Gathering in a Farmers' World
Hunter-Gatherers in the Post-Glacial World
The Neolithic of the Irish Sea
This collection of 24 papers aims to reconsider the nature and significance of the Irish Sea as an area of cultural interaction during the Neolithic period. The traditional character of work across this region has emphasised the existence of prehistoric contact, with sea routes criss-crossing between Ireland, the Isle of Man, Anglesey and the British mainland. A parallel course of investigation, however, has demonstrated that the British and Iris…
The Life and Times of a Chambered Tomb
Clyde cairns are a distinctive form of early Neolithic burial monument found in western Scotland. However, there have been no detailed investigations of these sites for many decades. Knowledge of early Neolithic monumentality in this region remains limited and reliant on parallels with better-known sequences in southern Britain and in Ireland. New research questions have recently arisen which explore the date of the construction of megalithic sit…
The Neolithic of Europe
Neolithic Explanations Revisited
Set against the new chronological framework for the introduction and spread of the Neolithic into Britain this paper considers the logistics of introducing domestic cattle from continental Europe. Cattle were the most extensively utilised domestic animal at the start of the Neolithic and understanding the processes behind their introduction is critical for exploring early Neolithic farming systems. We begin by exploring the realities of creating …
Early Islamic North Africa
This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…
Sources of flint in Britain and Ireland
An Archaeology of Nuclear Power
This chapter details an archaeological approach to sites in the nuclear industry. Set against a background of a consideration of Cold War sites more generally, the chapter suggests that nuclear sites have seen little investigation because many are still in use. Furthermore, there are associated risks of contamination (radiation) along with security issues to consider. However, the effects of nuclear sites can be documented, in terms of how they a…
Muddying the Waters
This paper explores the current narratives of migration for the start and spread of the Neolithic with a particular focus on the role that the new ancient DNA data have provided. While the genetic data are important and instructive, here it is argued that archaeologists should also consider other strands of evidence. More nuanced appreciations of migration as a long-term process can be created by exploring modern mobility studies alongside consid…
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