Neolithic Impressed and Related Wares in Britain and Ireland

Alistair Barclay is currently principal post-excavation manager for Cotswold Archaeology and is an acknowledged expert on Neolithic pottery. Alex Gibson was formerly Reader in British Prehistory at the University of Bradford and has published extensively on Neolithic and Bronze Age ceramics.

• Foreword List of contributors Introduction Alex Gibson and Alistair Barclay1. The Middle Neolithic in south-east England: social landscapes, chronology and interpretation Paul Garwood2. Off the chalk: Impressed Wares and the Middle Neolithic of Sussex, a short revision Jon Bączkowski3. Made to impress: Middle Neolithic pottery from the Thames Valley Alistair Barclay4. Peterborough Ware and the Middle Neolithic in the Avebury landscape Rosamund Cleal and Joshua Pollard5. Scarcely ceramic? The place of Middle Neolithic ceramics in the southwest peninsula Andy M. Jones and Henrietta Quinnell6. Recently impressed: Peterborough Wares from the Midlands and East Anglia – the view from Leicestershire and Norfolk Nicholas J. Cooper and Sarah Percival7. Impressed Ware from Lincolnshire Peter Chowne8. Impressed Ware from Wales Frances Lynch with Derek Hamilton and Jane Kenney9. Impressed Ware from Scotland and Northumberland: an overview Ann MacSween10. ‘Impressed Ware/s’: a term to be used with caution when describing Irish Middle Neolithic pottery Alison Sheridan11. We are not impressed: the early ceramic tradition of the Outer Hebrides and its significance for understandings of Impressed Ware pottery Mike Copper12. Investigating the use of Impressed Wares through a synthesis of pottery lipid residue studies from Early and Middle Neolithic Britain and Ireland Isabel L. Wiltshire and Lucy J.E. Cramp13. Postscript Alex Gibson