Mark Edmonds
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 609818 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark Edmonds |
| NOMBRES | Mark |
| APELLIDO | Edmonds |
| FIRMA | EDMONDS M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of York |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Skaill knives from the Ness of Brodgar
This paper presents the results of a pilot study exploring the biographies of Skaill knives from the Neolithic site of Ness of Brodgar (UK). Skaill knives are large sandstone flakes made from beach cobbles. We present an experimental study in which we replicated and used Skaill knives. A selection of ten archaeological Skaill knives was subjected to a detailed technological and functional analysis. Functional analysis of the experimental and arch…
At the cutting edge
Polished stone axes are one of the most iconic types of tools of Europe’s first farmers. Despite their ubiquity, we know relatively little about how they were used. Here, the authors outline how macroscopic wear analysis is revealing diversity in the use and treatment of axe-heads from Neolithic Orkney
Interpreting Causewayed Enclosures in the Past and the Present
The interpretation of enclosures as circuits of defences relies heavily on those few sites with evidence for substantial settlement, and on examples overlain by later hillforts. Evidence for attacks at sites such as Carn Brea and Crickley Hill lend support to the suggestion that the end of the earlier Neolithic witnessed changes in the nature and scale of conflict, at least in certain regions. The idea of enclosures as texts to be read has a cons…
Pictish Byre-houses at Pitcarmick and their landscape
‘Pitcarmick-type’ houses were identified by the Royal Commission in north east Perthshire in 1988 and published in their survey of 1990. Long and narrow with rounded ends, they seemed to occur in a sequence between prehistoric roundhouses and medieval and post-medieval dwellings. They were therefore provisionally assigned to the later 1st millennium AD, a period associated in this region with the Picts. Excavations by John Barrett and Jane Downes…
Stone Axe Studies III
A time and place for the Belmont Hoard
When they come to model Heaven
How useful is the archaeology of the present? In this tour de force the author takes an iconic structure of modern times - the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank - and reveals the conjuncture of its origins and its subsequent parallel lives in science, war, politics and the imagination. The modern example allows us to get behind the scenes and under the covers - into the mentality of monumentality, as it has probably always been, proxy for the zeitg…
Total Archaeology’ and Model Landscapes
This paper presents the results of fieldwork and archive ‘excavation’ relating to the causewayed enclosure at Great Wilbraham near Cambridge. Initiated in 1975 by David Clarke and John Alexander, the project effectively ceased after one further season following Clarke's untimely death. Combining original data with new results from geophysical and environmental surveys, a reappraisal of the site and its landscape context is offered. ‘The archive p…
Who Said Romance Was Dead
This article uses recent work in the central Lake District to explore current approaches to prehistoric landscapes in Britain. It argues that those approaches owe much to ways of seeing, which have their roots in the Romantic tradition, in particular, a tendency to privilege vision over the other senses. The more recent history of the area is drawn upon to argue for approaches which deal more directly with the physical engagement with landscape a…
Places Apart? Caves and Monuments in Neolithic and Earlier Bronze Age Britain
The recent growth of landscape perspectives has stimulated fresh approaches to the ways in which prehistoric communities attached significance to what we classify as topography or geology. Using evidence from North Wales and the Derbyshire Peak District, we argue here that the use of caves during the Neolithic and Bronze Age reflects a significant blurring of the distinction that archaeologists often draw between monuments and natural features
Gardom's Edge
Six seasons of excavation, survey and test pitting in the Peak District National Park, England, were conducted by the Park Authority and the Department of Archaeology & Prehistory, University of Sheffield, on a moorland rich in features surviving from Prehistoric use and occupation of the area. Investigated features include a Neolithic rubble-built enclosure bank, Bronze to Iron Age cairnfields and settlements and cup-and-ring rock art. From this…
St Kilda
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…
Inhabitation and Access
Last summer saw the launch of a website built around current field research at Gardom's Edge in Derbyshire. In this article, we want to highlight some of the ideas that went into the initial development of the site, how it relates to various aspects of our research, and how our first forays into this field have thrown up new questions and problems. We also want to explore how web-based media offer novel forms of access and engagement, particularl…
Assembly and Collection – Lithic Complexes in the Cambridgeshire Fenlands
Campaigns of large-scale fieldwalking and in-depth evaluation on later Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age lithic scatters are reported. In a regional context they are remarkable in their scale, density, and resolution, and raise questions concerning the character of early settlement and its corollary in landscape mobility – variously an archaeology of ‘meeting/return’, ‘task’, and ‘trace’
Survey and excavation at Creag na Caillich, Killin, Perthshire
A five-week fieldwork programme in the spring of 1989, sponsored by the National Museums of Scotland, has shed new light on the nature, scale and duration of stone procurement and processing activities at the Creag na
Stonehenge
Time's arrow never knaps
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Fieldwork at Great Langdale, Cumbria, 1985-1987
The Lake District mountains have long been known as the source of Neolithic artefacts belonging to petrological group VI. The study of their wider distribution has played a central part in investigations of the ‘axe trade’. Unfortunately, it is not clear that all Group VI axes originated in this area and in any case it is now known that there is no direct relationship between different fall-off patterns and the processes that led to their creatio…
Fieldwork at Great Langdale, Cumbria, 1985-1987
The Lake District mountains have long been known as the source of Neolithic artefacts belonging to petrological group VI. The study of their wider distribution has played a central part in investigations of the ‘axe trade’. Unfortunately, it is not clear that all Group VI axes originated in this area and in any case it is now known that there is no direct relationship between different fall-off patterns and the processes that led to their creatio…
Places Apart? Caves and Monuments in Neolithic and Earlier Bronze Age Britain
The recent growth of landscape perspectives has stimulated fresh approaches to the ways in which prehistoric communities attached significance to what we classify as topography or geology. Using evidence from North Wales and the Derbyshire Peak District, we argue here that the use of caves during the Neolithic and Bronze Age reflects a significant blurring of the distinction that archaeologists often draw between monuments and natural features
Who Said Romance Was Dead
This article uses recent work in the central Lake District to explore current approaches to prehistoric landscapes in Britain. It argues that those approaches owe much to ways of seeing, which have their roots in the Romantic tradition, in particular, a tendency to privilege vision over the other senses. The more recent history of the area is drawn upon to argue for approaches which deal more directly with the physical engagement with landscape a…
Assembly and Collection – Lithic Complexes in the Cambridgeshire Fenlands
Campaigns of large-scale fieldwalking and in-depth evaluation on later Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age lithic scatters are reported. In a regional context they are remarkable in their scale, density, and resolution, and raise questions concerning the character of early settlement and its corollary in landscape mobility – variously an archaeology of ‘meeting/return’, ‘task’, and ‘trace’
Total Archaeology’ and Model Landscapes
This paper presents the results of fieldwork and archive ‘excavation’ relating to the causewayed enclosure at Great Wilbraham near Cambridge. Initiated in 1975 by David Clarke and John Alexander, the project effectively ceased after one further season following Clarke's untimely death. Combining original data with new results from geophysical and environmental surveys, a reappraisal of the site and its landscape context is offered. ‘The archive p…
Gardom's Edge
Six seasons of excavation, survey and test pitting in the Peak District National Park, England, were conducted by the Park Authority and the Department of Archaeology & Prehistory, University of Sheffield, on a moorland rich in features surviving from Prehistoric use and occupation of the area. Investigated features include a Neolithic rubble-built enclosure bank, Bronze to Iron Age cairnfields and settlements and cup-and-ring rock art. From this…
When they come to model Heaven
How useful is the archaeology of the present? In this tour de force the author takes an iconic structure of modern times - the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank - and reveals the conjuncture of its origins and its subsequent parallel lives in science, war, politics and the imagination. The modern example allows us to get behind the scenes and under the covers - into the mentality of monumentality, as it has probably always been, proxy for the zeitg…
Stonehenge
Time's arrow never knaps
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
St Kilda
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…
Fieldwork at Great Langdale, Cumbria, 1985-1987
The Lake District mountains have long been known as the source of Neolithic artefacts belonging to petrological group VI. The study of their wider distribution has played a central part in investigations of the ‘axe trade’. Unfortunately, it is not clear that all Group VI axes originated in this area and in any case it is now known that there is no direct relationship between different fall-off patterns and the processes that led to their creatio…
Time's arrow never knaps
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
Stonehenge
Survey and excavation at Creag na Caillich, Killin, Perthshire
A five-week fieldwork programme in the spring of 1989, sponsored by the National Museums of Scotland, has shed new light on the nature, scale and duration of stone procurement and processing activities at the Creag na
Inhabitation and Access
Last summer saw the launch of a website built around current field research at Gardom's Edge in Derbyshire. In this article, we want to highlight some of the ideas that went into the initial development of the site, how it relates to various aspects of our research, and how our first forays into this field have thrown up new questions and problems. We also want to explore how web-based media offer novel forms of access and engagement, particularl…
Assembly and Collection – Lithic Complexes in the Cambridgeshire Fenlands
Campaigns of large-scale fieldwalking and in-depth evaluation on later Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age lithic scatters are reported. In a regional context they are remarkable in their scale, density, and resolution, and raise questions concerning the character of early settlement and its corollary in landscape mobility – variously an archaeology of ‘meeting/return’, ‘task’, and ‘trace’
St Kilda
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…
Places Apart? Caves and Monuments in Neolithic and Earlier Bronze Age Britain
The recent growth of landscape perspectives has stimulated fresh approaches to the ways in which prehistoric communities attached significance to what we classify as topography or geology. Using evidence from North Wales and the Derbyshire Peak District, we argue here that the use of caves during the Neolithic and Bronze Age reflects a significant blurring of the distinction that archaeologists often draw between monuments and natural features
Gardom's Edge
Six seasons of excavation, survey and test pitting in the Peak District National Park, England, were conducted by the Park Authority and the Department of Archaeology & Prehistory, University of Sheffield, on a moorland rich in features surviving from Prehistoric use and occupation of the area. Investigated features include a Neolithic rubble-built enclosure bank, Bronze to Iron Age cairnfields and settlements and cup-and-ring rock art. From this…
Total Archaeology’ and Model Landscapes
This paper presents the results of fieldwork and archive ‘excavation’ relating to the causewayed enclosure at Great Wilbraham near Cambridge. Initiated in 1975 by David Clarke and John Alexander, the project effectively ceased after one further season following Clarke's untimely death. Combining original data with new results from geophysical and environmental surveys, a reappraisal of the site and its landscape context is offered. ‘The archive p…
Who Said Romance Was Dead
This article uses recent work in the central Lake District to explore current approaches to prehistoric landscapes in Britain. It argues that those approaches owe much to ways of seeing, which have their roots in the Romantic tradition, in particular, a tendency to privilege vision over the other senses. The more recent history of the area is drawn upon to argue for approaches which deal more directly with the physical engagement with landscape a…
When they come to model Heaven
How useful is the archaeology of the present? In this tour de force the author takes an iconic structure of modern times - the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank - and reveals the conjuncture of its origins and its subsequent parallel lives in science, war, politics and the imagination. The modern example allows us to get behind the scenes and under the covers - into the mentality of monumentality, as it has probably always been, proxy for the zeitg…
Stone Axe Studies III
A time and place for the Belmont Hoard
Pictish Byre-houses at Pitcarmick and their landscape
‘Pitcarmick-type’ houses were identified by the Royal Commission in north east Perthshire in 1988 and published in their survey of 1990. Long and narrow with rounded ends, they seemed to occur in a sequence between prehistoric roundhouses and medieval and post-medieval dwellings. They were therefore provisionally assigned to the later 1st millennium AD, a period associated in this region with the Picts. Excavations by John Barrett and Jane Downes…
Interpreting Causewayed Enclosures in the Past and the Present
The interpretation of enclosures as circuits of defences relies heavily on those few sites with evidence for substantial settlement, and on examples overlain by later hillforts. Evidence for attacks at sites such as Carn Brea and Crickley Hill lend support to the suggestion that the end of the earlier Neolithic witnessed changes in the nature and scale of conflict, at least in certain regions. The idea of enclosures as texts to be read has a cons…
Skaill knives from the Ness of Brodgar
This paper presents the results of a pilot study exploring the biographies of Skaill knives from the Neolithic site of Ness of Brodgar (UK). Skaill knives are large sandstone flakes made from beach cobbles. We present an experimental study in which we replicated and used Skaill knives. A selection of ten archaeological Skaill knives was subjected to a detailed technological and functional analysis. Functional analysis of the experimental and arch…
At the cutting edge
Polished stone axes are one of the most iconic types of tools of Europe’s first farmers. Despite their ubiquity, we know relatively little about how they were used. Here, the authors outline how macroscopic wear analysis is revealing diversity in the use and treatment of axe-heads from Neolithic Orkney
Archaeology (13 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (12 obras) · History (11 obras) · Geography (10 obras) · Excavation (6 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 obras) · Prehistory (6 obras) · Archaeological Research and Protection (5 obras) · Bronze Age (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras)