Jan Harding
Biographic Data
| ID | 4121494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Harding |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Harding |
| SIGNATURE | HARDING J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 33 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Pathways and Ceremonies
The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe
The Decline of the Neolithic and the Rise of Bronze Age Society
The Neolithic in Mediterranean Europe
The Mediterranean region represented a significant zone for the transmission of the Neolithic and its farming economy.This essay reviews the different mechanisms and geographic constraints that influenced the movement of farming and cultural trends, and assesses the current interpretative models as well as traditional approaches in the context of recent archaeological discoveries and publication.Neolithic evidence across southern Europe, from the…
The Neolithization of Mediterranean Europe
Stable Isotopes and Neolithic Subsistence
Subsistence Practices in Western and Northern Europe
Early agriculture in north-west Europe was highly diverse. Sometimes it spread rapidly, at other times it scarcely advanced at all, and in southern Scandinavia it retreated after its initial advance. Linearbandkeramik (LBK) farmers occupied small clearings on loess soils, concentrating on cattle and cereals and hardly exploiting the surrounding forest at all. After more than a millennium agriculture spread into southern Scandinavia; after an init…
Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in Northern Europe
The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe
This chapter explores early metallurgy and metalwork in Iberia and the western Mediterranean, focusing on the metal-using phase known as ‘Chalcolithic’. After providing a background on the Iberian peninsula and its potential importance for early metallurgy, the discussion turns to the earliest treatment of copper ores in the region and the socioeconomic context of early metallurgy. It then looks at the earliest use of copper artefacts in Italy an…
Mortuary Practices and Bodily Representations in North-west Europe
This chapter explores patterns and variations in how Neolithic bodies were presented and represented in Britain, Ireland and northern France, and how these changed through time. The evidence for mortuary practices and figurative art are reviewed, with special attention to the concept of bodily integrity. A wide range of bodily transformations following death are discussed including cremation, single and collective burial, practices that left the …
Pit‐digging, Occupation and Structured Deposition on Rudston Wold, Eastern Yorkshire
Excavated Neolithic pit clusters, like those found on Rudston Wold in eastern Yorkshire, have often been seen as the remains of occupation sites. The features are interpreted as possessing practical roles, including their use for storing grain, and the incorporated material culture regarded as casually discarded waste. More recent interpretations, however, have emphasized these features’ functional unsuitability, rather seeing pit‐digging, and th…
Rethinking the Great Divide
The archaeology of time, in its current form, is problematic. Some recent studies have considered either the 'event' or the 'structure' as pivotal to experiencing temporality, yet this is at odds with those more detailed and theoretically‐explicit accounts of time, developed within related disciplines, which consider both as intrinsic and inseparable parts of this experience. Other archaeological studies regard event and structure as nested withi…
Interpreting the Neolithic
Recent interpretations of the British Neolithic either consider the shared beliefs of this period or the short‐term engagement of individuals with their material surroundings. This paper argues that, while both approaches provide exciting agenda, they fail to address the marked regional differences which exist within the range of monuments, and indeed have actually shifted Neolithic studies away from a consideration of such variability. A compari…
Social Histories and Regional Perspectives in the Neolithic of Lowland England
Recent studies have illustrated a series of marked regional differences in the distribution and design of Neolithic monuments throughout lowland England. They fail, however, to provide an interpretative framework for the discussion of these contrasts. This paper proposes that such regional variability can only be understood with a scale of analysis which outlines the fundamental distinctions between political communities in different parts of low…
A Field Method for Investigating the Distribution of Rock Art
Recent studies of prehistoric rock art have analysed its position in the landscape and have suggested that it played an important role in a mobile pattern of settlement. But the distribution of petroglyphs is usually taken as given, with the result that it is difficult to assess the significance of this kind of patterning. We argue that such evidence should be compared with the distribution of uncarved rocks across the surrounding area, and illus…
The Siting of Prehistoric Rock Art in Galloway, South-west Scotland
The interpretation of prehistoric rock art has posed some intractable problems, but recent studies have sought to integrate it within a more broadly based landscape archaeology. They emphasise the special character of this material, not only as a system of distinctive motifs, but also as a source of information employed by people engaged in a mobile pattern of settlement. This paper investigates the character of the rock art of south-west Scotlan…
Le meme et l'autre
Glass Beads and Early Trading Posts on the East Coast of Africa
Certain Upper Palaeolithic 'Venus' Statuettes Considered in Relation to the Pathological Condition Known as Massive Hypertrophy of the Breasts
J. R. Harding, Certain Upper Palaeolithic 'Venus' Statuettes Considered in Relation to the Pathological Condition Known as Massive Hypertrophy of the Breasts, Man, New Series, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jun., 1976), pp. 271-272
The Trekpad Figure
Note on a Rock-Painting near Leribe in Lesotho (Basutoland)
Interpreting the 'White Lady' Rock-Painting of South West Africa
A Note on the Conus Shell Disc Ornament in Swaziland
A Note on Chinese Celadon and Egyptian s'Graffiato Wares from Dar es Salaam
Nineteenth-Century Trade Beads in Tanganyika
Rethinking the Great Divide
The archaeology of time, in its current form, is problematic. Some recent studies have considered either the 'event' or the 'structure' as pivotal to experiencing temporality, yet this is at odds with those more detailed and theoretically‐explicit accounts of time, developed within related disciplines, which consider both as intrinsic and inseparable parts of this experience. Other archaeological studies regard event and structure as nested withi…
Pit‐digging, Occupation and Structured Deposition on Rudston Wold, Eastern Yorkshire
Excavated Neolithic pit clusters, like those found on Rudston Wold in eastern Yorkshire, have often been seen as the remains of occupation sites. The features are interpreted as possessing practical roles, including their use for storing grain, and the incorporated material culture regarded as casually discarded waste. More recent interpretations, however, have emphasized these features’ functional unsuitability, rather seeing pit‐digging, and th…
Conus Shell Disc Ornaments (Vibangwa) in Africa
Interpreting the Neolithic
Recent interpretations of the British Neolithic either consider the shared beliefs of this period or the short‐term engagement of individuals with their material surroundings. This paper argues that, while both approaches provide exciting agenda, they fail to address the marked regional differences which exist within the range of monuments, and indeed have actually shifted Neolithic studies away from a consideration of such variability. A compari…
The Siting of Prehistoric Rock Art in Galloway, South-west Scotland
The interpretation of prehistoric rock art has posed some intractable problems, but recent studies have sought to integrate it within a more broadly based landscape archaeology. They emphasise the special character of this material, not only as a system of distinctive motifs, but also as a source of information employed by people engaged in a mobile pattern of settlement. This paper investigates the character of the rock art of south-west Scotlan…
Late Stone Age Sites on the Tanganyika Coast
Nineteenth-Century Trade Beads in Tanganyika
Social Histories and Regional Perspectives in the Neolithic of Lowland England
Recent studies have illustrated a series of marked regional differences in the distribution and design of Neolithic monuments throughout lowland England. They fail, however, to provide an interpretative framework for the discussion of these contrasts. This paper proposes that such regional variability can only be understood with a scale of analysis which outlines the fundamental distinctions between political communities in different parts of low…
Certain Upper Palaeolithic 'Venus' Statuettes Considered in Relation to the Pathological Condition Known as Massive Hypertrophy of the Breasts
J. R. Harding, Certain Upper Palaeolithic 'Venus' Statuettes Considered in Relation to the Pathological Condition Known as Massive Hypertrophy of the Breasts, Man, New Series, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jun., 1976), pp. 271-272
A Field Method for Investigating the Distribution of Rock Art
Recent studies of prehistoric rock art have analysed its position in the landscape and have suggested that it played an important role in a mobile pattern of settlement. But the distribution of petroglyphs is usually taken as given, with the result that it is difficult to assess the significance of this kind of patterning. We argue that such evidence should be compared with the distribution of uncarved rocks across the surrounding area, and illus…
Interpreting the 'White Lady' Rock-Painting of South West Africa
A Carved Pumice Head from New Zealand
Glass Beads and Early Trading Posts on the East Coast of Africa
Note on a Rock-Painting near Leribe in Lesotho (Basutoland)
A Note on the Conus Shell Disc Ornament in Swaziland
The Makhetha Cave Paintings
Paintings of Robed Figures in Basutoland
A Remarkable Rock Painting in the Bethlehem District, O.F.S
Paintings of Robed Figures in Basutoland
Weeks of Excavation Nullified in a Night
Painted Rock-Shelters near Bethlehem, O.F.S
Painted Rock-Shelters near Bethlehem, O.F.S
The Makhetha Cave Paintings
Notes on Some Rock-Paintings in the Eastern Free State
A Carved Pumice Head from New Zealand
Conus Shell Disc Ornaments (Vibangwa) in Africa
Late Stone Age Sites on the Tanganyika Coast
Nineteenth-Century Trade Beads in Tanganyika
A Note on the Conus Shell Disc Ornament in Swaziland
A Note on Chinese Celadon and Egyptian s'Graffiato Wares from Dar es Salaam
Interpreting the 'White Lady' Rock-Painting of South West Africa
Note on a Rock-Painting near Leribe in Lesotho (Basutoland)
The Trekpad Figure
Certain Upper Palaeolithic 'Venus' Statuettes Considered in Relation to the Pathological Condition Known as Massive Hypertrophy of the Breasts
J. R. Harding, Certain Upper Palaeolithic 'Venus' Statuettes Considered in Relation to the Pathological Condition Known as Massive Hypertrophy of the Breasts, Man, New Series, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jun., 1976), pp. 271-272
Glass Beads and Early Trading Posts on the East Coast of Africa
Le meme et l'autre
A Field Method for Investigating the Distribution of Rock Art
Recent studies of prehistoric rock art have analysed its position in the landscape and have suggested that it played an important role in a mobile pattern of settlement. But the distribution of petroglyphs is usually taken as given, with the result that it is difficult to assess the significance of this kind of patterning. We argue that such evidence should be compared with the distribution of uncarved rocks across the surrounding area, and illus…
The Siting of Prehistoric Rock Art in Galloway, South-west Scotland
The interpretation of prehistoric rock art has posed some intractable problems, but recent studies have sought to integrate it within a more broadly based landscape archaeology. They emphasise the special character of this material, not only as a system of distinctive motifs, but also as a source of information employed by people engaged in a mobile pattern of settlement. This paper investigates the character of the rock art of south-west Scotlan…
Social Histories and Regional Perspectives in the Neolithic of Lowland England
Recent studies have illustrated a series of marked regional differences in the distribution and design of Neolithic monuments throughout lowland England. They fail, however, to provide an interpretative framework for the discussion of these contrasts. This paper proposes that such regional variability can only be understood with a scale of analysis which outlines the fundamental distinctions between political communities in different parts of low…
Interpreting the Neolithic
Recent interpretations of the British Neolithic either consider the shared beliefs of this period or the short‐term engagement of individuals with their material surroundings. This paper argues that, while both approaches provide exciting agenda, they fail to address the marked regional differences which exist within the range of monuments, and indeed have actually shifted Neolithic studies away from a consideration of such variability. A compari…
Rethinking the Great Divide
The archaeology of time, in its current form, is problematic. Some recent studies have considered either the 'event' or the 'structure' as pivotal to experiencing temporality, yet this is at odds with those more detailed and theoretically‐explicit accounts of time, developed within related disciplines, which consider both as intrinsic and inseparable parts of this experience. Other archaeological studies regard event and structure as nested withi…
Pit‐digging, Occupation and Structured Deposition on Rudston Wold, Eastern Yorkshire
Excavated Neolithic pit clusters, like those found on Rudston Wold in eastern Yorkshire, have often been seen as the remains of occupation sites. The features are interpreted as possessing practical roles, including their use for storing grain, and the incorporated material culture regarded as casually discarded waste. More recent interpretations, however, have emphasized these features’ functional unsuitability, rather seeing pit‐digging, and th…
Geography (27 works) · Archaeology (23 works) · History (15 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Geology (10 works) · Geology (9 works) · History (9 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works)