A Fleming
Biographic Data
| ID | 4481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Fleming |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Fleming |
| SIGNATURE | FLEMING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wales Trinity Saint David |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2036-5843 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 306 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Soay Sheep: The Back-story
The primitive race of Soay sheep from the St Kilda archipelago in northwest Scotland has played an important role in narratives of the history of domestic sheep. The Soays, apparently a ‘Bronze Age’ race of sheep, were probably confined to the precipitous isle of Soay as soon as ‘Iron Age’ sheep were introduced to Hirta, St Kilda's main island, owing to the competitive edge of the ferocious Soay rams over the new arrivals. In the 1880s, Pitt-Rive…
Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG)
Sea-ice information and forecast needs for industry maritime stakeholders
Profound changes in Arctic sea-ice, a growing desire to utilize the Arctic’s abundant natural resources, and the potential competitiveness of Arctic shipping routes, all provide for increased industry marine activity throughout the Arctic Ocean. This is anticipated to result in further challenges for maritime safety. Those operating in ice-infested waters require various types of information for sea-ice and iceberg hazards. Ice information requir…
Lincoln center moments: Integrating accessibility and enhancement through expanding performing arts experiences
This project, the first of its kind, is a starting point. There has not been another to integrate professional musicians of varying genres, with people in the community with Alzheimer' s, and most particularly, by providing after-performance groups that assisted members' processing. Designing programs incorporating the arts as applicable to community-based institutions may expand their impact
Matthew Kelly, Quartz and Feldspar: Dartmoor - A British Landscape in Modern Times
The Walkhampton Enclosure (Devon)
At Walkhampton, west Devon, a continuous line of field boundaries apparently represents the remains of two sides and three corners of a roughly rectangular enclosure of c. 175 hectares. We argue on stratigraphic grounds that the Walkhampton Enclosure (WE) pre-dates the Norman Conquest. It was sited strategically — defended by watercourses to the west and south, and located where two important long-distance roads merged to cross the River Walkham.…
Why the Middle Ages matter: Medieval light on modern injustice
Why the Middle Ages matter: medieval light on modern injustice, edited by C. Chazelle, S. Doubleday, F. Lifshitz and A.G. Remensnyder, London, Routledge, 2011, vii + 208 pp., US$29.72 (paperback)
John Mirk’s Festial: Edited from British Library MS Cotton Claudius A.II, Vol. I, ed. Susan Powell
John Mirk’s Festial was the most widely-used vernacular sermon collection in later medieval England. Explicitly designed for clergy impaired by ‘defaute of bokus and sympulnys of lettre’, the Festial sets out an entertaining and easy-to-use series of sermons to be preached on all the important feast-days of the year. As one might expect, the text draws very heavily on Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea, with some fascinating local material added…
The Crossing of Dartmoor
An east-west route across Dartmoor, marked by a series oflate medieval granite crosses, probably goes back at least to the eighth century; it is the moorland component of the pre-Conquest road from Ashburton (and Exeter) to Tavistock and then through Horsebridge and into central Cornwall. The road links up with, and partly follows, another road linking important early medieval places in west Devon, which may once have related to the 'frontier' wi…
Small-scale communities and the landscape of Swaledale (North Yorkshire, UK)
St Edmund, King and Martyr: Changing Images of a Medieval Saint
Scholars of medieval sainthood already have at their disposal plenty of books on individual saints; studies that set out to trace fluctuations in forms of devotion to an individual cult through successive periods, however, are rarer. This collection of articles edited by Anthony Bale is, therefore, particularly welcome. The stated emphasis on the cult's scope for dynamic reinterpretation, and the diversity of ways in which St Edmund has been conc…
Debating landscape archaeology
Monks and Local Communities: The Late-medieval Landscape of Troed y Rhiw, Caron Uwch Clawdd, Ceredigion
In a zone of improved upland pasture some 2 km east of the Cistercian monastery of Strata Florida (Ystrad Fflur), Ceredigion, are the earthwork remains of a 'sheepcote' and four abandoned medieval farms, one probably originating as a monastic sheep-handling station. Documentary evidence and field observation suggest that these farms have preserved their late-medieval forms in a relatively unmodified state. Three were apparently situated along a c…
The effects of external cues on eating and body weight: Another look at obese humans and rats
Post-processual Landscape Archaeology: A Critique
Post-processual theorists have characterized landscape archaeology as practised in the second half of the twentieth century as over-empirical. They have asserted that the discipline is sterile, in that it deals inadequately with the people of the past, and is also too preoccupied with vision-privileging and Cartesian approaches. They have argued that it is therefore necessary to 'go beyond the evidence' and to develop more experiential approaches…
St Kilda and the Wider World: Tales of an Iconic Island
Megaliths and post-modernism: The case of Wales
Andrew Fleming takes phenomenology by the horns
St Kilda: The pre-Improvement clachan
Archaeological studies of Hirta, the main island of the St Kilda archipelago to the west of the Western Isles of Scotland, have debated the location and character of the settlement demolished during the Improvement phase of the 1830s. This paper argues that archaeological evidence for the clachan is recoverable, and that it is in very good agreement with the drawings made by Acland and Atkinson in the early 19th century
Hazel Riley & Robert Wilson-North. The field archaeology of Exmoor. xii+192 pages, 191 figures 2001. Swindon: English Heritage; 1-87359-258-2 paperback £12.95
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Bronze Age Landscapes: Tradition and Transformation. Edited by J oanna B rück
(2002). Bronze Age Landscapes: Tradition and Transformation. Edited by Joanna Bruck. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 159, No. 1, pp. 320-321
St. Kilda: Family, Community, and the Wider World
St Kilda: Quarries, fields and prehistoric agriculture
On the western side of Village Bay, on the island of Hirta in the St Kilda archipelago, there are extensive dolerite quarries for the extraction of stone for production of `flaked stone bars' or hoe-blades, which are closely comparable to similar tools found in Neolithic and Bronze Age contexts in the Northern Isles. Broken hoe-blades are widely distributed among the walls and buildings of the village abandoned in 1930. Their use was probably coe…
Human ecology and the early history of St Kilda, Scotland
Phenomenology and the Megaliths of Wales: A Dreaming Too Far
It is argued that the field data do not support the claims made by Tilley in his A Phenomenology of Landscape (1994) for intentional relationships between the placing of Welsh megalithic tombs and natural features of the landscape. The critique relates to sample quality, observational rigour and failure to examine alternative hypotheses concerning the siting factors involved in the placing of the tombs
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Journal Article Dick. Dir. by Andrew Fleming. Columbia Pictures and Phoenix Pictures, 1999. 90 mins. Get access Scott A. Sandage Scott A. Sandage Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1441–1443, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568747 Published: 01 December 1999
Post-processual Landscape Archaeology: A Critique
Post-processual theorists have characterized landscape archaeology as practised in the second half of the twentieth century as over-empirical. They have asserted that the discipline is sterile, in that it deals inadequately with the people of the past, and is also too preoccupied with vision-privileging and Cartesian approaches. They have argued that it is therefore necessary to 'go beyond the evidence' and to develop more experiential approaches…
Tombs for the Living
The prehistoric landscape of Dartmoor Part 1: South Dartmoor
This paper discusses the landscape pattern made by the reaves—second millennium bc land boundaries—of South Dartmoor. The upper moorland of the South Moor was probably used as common grazing by 6–7 major sociopolitical units. Each possessed its own grazing land, normally in a valley zone near settlement enclosures. Each group had a ‘parallel system’ of reaves used partly for cultivation. 2 or 3 groups shared the Hameldon Ridge, in similar fashion…
The Unesco Libyan Valleys Survey VI: Investigations of a Romano-Libyan farm, Part I
A fourth season of work was carried out in the Spring of 1984. The centrepiece of the programme was the investigation of the well-preserved farm in the Wadi el-Amud (Lamout). The main farm buildings were excavated, faunal and botanical samples were collected systematically from within and between them, the field systems and sluices were examined in detail and investigations begun on the geomorphological and hydrological context. This report prese…
Territorial Patterns in Bronze Age Wessex
The work presented in this paper arose from an attempt to study society and economy in England during the period conventionally referred to as the Early and Middle Bronze Ages. The discussion of questions of this sort is traditionally supposed to be less reliable and important than taxonomic studies aimed at the construction of a relative chronology; this is largely because the basic assumptions of typology have not been questioned very much rece…
Ulvs Xiii: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Farming in the Wadi Mansur, Tripolitania
This article describes the interdisciplinary methods developed by the UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey in connection with the study of ancient agriculture. These methods combine the techniques of settlement archaeology with those of the earth sciences and palaeoeconomics. The interactive nature of the enquiry does not resolve all the questions, but it can help to re-shape those questions and suggest new lines of enquiry. The example of the Wadi Mansu…
The Prehistoric Landscape of Dartmoor Part 2: North and East Dartmoor
This paper describes the distribution of reaves (Bronze Age land boundaries) on North and East Dartmoor (cf. Fleming 1978a for South Dartmoor). It is suggested that they form a pattern which reflects the territorial arrangements of several communities distributed around the edge of Dartmoor. Each of these territories tended to be about 3–4 km in breadth and to include a single block of enclosed land laid out on one axis, sometimes covering over 1…
Phenomenology and the Megaliths of Wales: A Dreaming Too Far
It is argued that the field data do not support the claims made by Tilley in his A Phenomenology of Landscape (1994) for intentional relationships between the placing of Welsh megalithic tombs and natural features of the landscape. The critique relates to sample quality, observational rigour and failure to examine alternative hypotheses concerning the siting factors involved in the placing of the tombs
The Shaugh Moor Project: First Report
Viewed from the south Devon littoral with its series of good harbours the dark bulk of Dartmoor is clearly visible across the flat coastal plain. It is the largest of the five granite masses that provide a spine to the south-west English peninsula (Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor, Hensbarrow, Carnmenellis and Penwith) that were formed by the consolidation of molten material. The 500 square kilometres of the Moor form an undulating upland up to 600 m OD on …
Vision and Design: Approaches to Ceremonial Monument Typology
The myth of the mother-goddess
1969). The myth of the mother‐goddess. World Archaeology: Vol. 1, Techniques of chronology and excavation, pp. 247-261
Megaliths and post-modernism: The case of Wales
Andrew Fleming takes phenomenology by the horns
Coaxial field systems: Some Questions of Time and Space
Curwen, writing in ANTIQUITY60 years ago about prehistoric agriculture in Britain (Curwen 1927), found his best evidence for the fields of earliest times came from the hut-circles and enclosures of Dartmoor. Andrew Fleming has done the same in studying the large-scale land divisions made by the Dartmoor reaves. Until his work these prehistoric boundaries were thought to be of medieval date - understandably as they demonstrate not the piecemeal an…
The genesis of pastoralism in European prehistory
Recent work has suggested that pastoralism, nomadic or otherwise, became increasingly important in the British Isles in the second and first millennia B.C. This paper is concerned with explaining this development. It sketches a typology of land use models, pointing out that the pollen records suggest two types of early clearance ‐ large scale and small scale. Estimates are made of potential animal densities in forest feeding situations and in cle…
Problems in Neolithic Archaeology
1. The inference of limits 2. Fighting the clock 3. Putting down roots: taking stock 4. Living in the material world 5. Burial: the changing role of the dead 6. Backward and forward rotes Bibliography Index
Settlement and farming systems in the early iron age
Medieval settlement and land use on Holne Moor, Dartmoor: The landscape evidence
THE STUDY AREA, located on open moorland, is rich in relict medieval boundaries and traces of industrial activity. A sequence of land boundary types can be established and the history of colonization and land use reconstructed. The sequence stretches from the establishment of a small pre-Conquest hamlet through a period of expansion in the 13th century of commoners from two nearby manors, to later retrenchment and abandonment. Medieval and post-m…
Dartmoor reaves: A Nineteenth-Century Fiasco
In April 1972 Mr Fleming, Lecturer in Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, and his colleague Dr John Collis, were able to demonstrate the prehistoric date of a system of reaves, or low walls, on south-west Dartmoor. Further research showed that the true date and function of the reaves had been suggested in the early nineteenth century, but that they gradually come to be ignored by prehistorians of more recent times; Mr Flemi…
An embarrassment of professors
The judgements shaping archaeology and every subject in British universities (see remarks in the Editorial above) are based on certain presumptions about how research and teaching can best be done. Some of these premisses are noted
The Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG): Origins, Retrospect, Prospect
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Why the Middle Ages matter: Medieval light on modern injustice
Why the Middle Ages matter: medieval light on modern injustice, edited by C. Chazelle, S. Doubleday, F. Lifshitz and A.G. Remensnyder, London, Routledge, 2011, vii + 208 pp., US$29.72 (paperback)
St. Kilda: Family, Community, and the Wider World
St Kilda: Quarries, fields and prehistoric agriculture
On the western side of Village Bay, on the island of Hirta in the St Kilda archipelago, there are extensive dolerite quarries for the extraction of stone for production of `flaked stone bars' or hoe-blades, which are closely comparable to similar tools found in Neolithic and Bronze Age contexts in the Northern Isles. Broken hoe-blades are widely distributed among the walls and buildings of the village abandoned in 1930. Their use was probably coe…
A tomb with a view
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Cille Donnain: A late Norse church in South Uist
On a promontory on the western edge of Loch Kildonan, South Uist, in the Western Isles, are the ruins of a church known as Cille Donnain. The paper argues that this church and some buildings on the nearby Eilean Mor (reached by causeways) constituted an important 12th-century religious and political centre, comparable to Finlaggan in Islay; it is suggested that the site may have been the seat of a bishop. The church lies within an earlier dun-lik…
The myth of the mother-goddess
1969). The myth of the mother‐goddess. World Archaeology: Vol. 1, Techniques of chronology and excavation, pp. 247-261
Territorial Patterns in Bronze Age Wessex
The work presented in this paper arose from an attempt to study society and economy in England during the period conventionally referred to as the Early and Middle Bronze Ages. The discussion of questions of this sort is traditionally supposed to be less reliable and important than taxonomic studies aimed at the construction of a relative chronology; this is largely because the basic assumptions of typology have not been questioned very much rece…
The genesis of pastoralism in European prehistory
Recent work has suggested that pastoralism, nomadic or otherwise, became increasingly important in the British Isles in the second and first millennia B.C. This paper is concerned with explaining this development. It sketches a typology of land use models, pointing out that the pollen records suggest two types of early clearance ‐ large scale and small scale. Estimates are made of potential animal densities in forest feeding situations and in cle…
Vision and Design: Approaches to Ceremonial Monument Typology
Tombs for the Living
Southern England: An Archaeological Guide: The Prehistoric and Roman Remains
Contemporary Archaeology: A Guide to Theory and Contributions
Intended as a guide or reader in graduate or advanced undergraduate courses and as a reference for professionals interested in the latest archaeological achievements, this significant compilation articles dealing with the theoretical bases and substantive accomplishments contemporary archaeology provides the coherent theory and concrete results recent developments in anthropological archaeology. The thirty-three contributions brought together, mo…
Prehistoric land boundaries in upland Britain: An Appeal
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Man Before History
The prehistoric landscape of Dartmoor Part 1: South Dartmoor
This paper discusses the landscape pattern made by the reaves—second millennium bc land boundaries—of South Dartmoor. The upper moorland of the South Moor was probably used as common grazing by 6–7 major sociopolitical units. Each possessed its own grazing land, normally in a valley zone near settlement enclosures. Each group had a ‘parallel system’ of reaves used partly for cultivation. 2 or 3 groups shared the Hameldon Ridge, in similar fashion…
Dartmoor reaves: A Nineteenth-Century Fiasco
In April 1972 Mr Fleming, Lecturer in Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, and his colleague Dr John Collis, were able to demonstrate the prehistoric date of a system of reaves, or low walls, on south-west Dartmoor. Further research showed that the true date and function of the reaves had been suggested in the early nineteenth century, but that they gradually come to be ignored by prehistorians of more recent times; Mr Flemi…
The Shaugh Moor Project: First Report
Viewed from the south Devon littoral with its series of good harbours the dark bulk of Dartmoor is clearly visible across the flat coastal plain. It is the largest of the five granite masses that provide a spine to the south-west English peninsula (Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor, Hensbarrow, Carnmenellis and Penwith) that were formed by the consolidation of molten material. The 500 square kilometres of the Moor form an undulating upland up to 600 m OD on …
A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior
European parliament elections 1979
Medieval settlement and land use on Holne Moor, Dartmoor: The landscape evidence
THE STUDY AREA, located on open moorland, is rich in relict medieval boundaries and traces of industrial activity. A sequence of land boundary types can be established and the history of colonization and land use reconstructed. The sequence stretches from the establishment of a small pre-Conquest hamlet through a period of expansion in the 13th century of commoners from two nearby manors, to later retrenchment and abandonment. Medieval and post-m…
The Prehistoric Landscape of Dartmoor Part 2: North and East Dartmoor
This paper describes the distribution of reaves (Bronze Age land boundaries) on North and East Dartmoor (cf. Fleming 1978a for South Dartmoor). It is suggested that they form a pattern which reflects the territorial arrangements of several communities distributed around the edge of Dartmoor. Each of these territories tended to be about 3–4 km in breadth and to include a single block of enclosed land laid out on one axis, sometimes covering over 1…
The prehistoric landscape of Dartmoor: Wider implications
(1984). The prehistoric landscape of Dartmoor: wider implications. Landscape History: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 5-19
Settlement and farming systems in the early iron age
The Unesco Libyan Valleys Survey VI: Investigations of a Romano-Libyan farm, Part I
A fourth season of work was carried out in the Spring of 1984. The centrepiece of the programme was the investigation of the well-preserved farm in the Wadi el-Amud (Lamout). The main farm buildings were excavated, faunal and botanical samples were collected systematically from within and between them, the field systems and sluices were examined in detail and investigations begun on the geomorphological and hydrological context. This report prese…
Ulvs Xiii: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Farming in the Wadi Mansur, Tripolitania
This article describes the interdisciplinary methods developed by the UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey in connection with the study of ancient agriculture. These methods combine the techniques of settlement archaeology with those of the earth sciences and palaeoeconomics. The interactive nature of the enquiry does not resolve all the questions, but it can help to re-shape those questions and suggest new lines of enquiry. The example of the Wadi Mansu…
Coaxial field systems: Some Questions of Time and Space
Curwen, writing in ANTIQUITY60 years ago about prehistoric agriculture in Britain (Curwen 1927), found his best evidence for the fields of earliest times came from the hut-circles and enclosures of Dartmoor. Andrew Fleming has done the same in studying the large-scale land divisions made by the Dartmoor reaves. Until his work these prehistoric boundaries were thought to be of medieval date - understandably as they demonstrate not the piecemeal an…
Landscape Archaeology, Prehistory, and Rural Studies
This essay considers whether it is possible for landscape archaeologists, particularly those concerned with prehistory or with periods not significantly text-aided, to go beyond the pursuit of methodological virtuosity and the production of local studies, and make useful contributions to discussions on mainstream social and economic issues in human history. A major problem for landscape archaeologists – and indeed for prehistorians – is that as s…
The Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG): Origins, Retrospect, Prospect
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Problems in Neolithic Archaeology
1. The inference of limits 2. Fighting the clock 3. Putting down roots: taking stock 4. Living in the material world 5. Burial: the changing role of the dead 6. Backward and forward rotes Bibliography Index
Buried TreasureThe Passage of Arms: An Archaeological Analysis of Prehistoric Hoards and Votive Deposits.Richard Bradley
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