Prehistoric Britain

Ann Woodward is a retired Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. She specialises in Bronze Age pottery and barrows; her publications include An Examination of Prehistoric Stone Bracers, and Prehistoric Britain: The Ceramic Basis. J.D. Hill is Research Manager in the British Museum and specializes in the Iron Age. Contributors include curatorial experts drawn from the whole range of the British Museum’s collection.

• Introduction  (Ann Woodward & J D Hill)  1) A date with the past: Late Bronze and Iron Age pottery and chronology  (Steven Willis) 2) The nature of archaeological deposits and finds assemblages  (Joshua Pollard) 3) Aspects of manufacture and ceramic technology  (Alex Gibson) 4) Between ritual and routine: interpreting British prehistoric pottery production and distribution  (Sue Hamilton) 5) Staying alive: The function and use of prehistoric ceramics  (Elaine L Morris) 6) Sherds in space: pottery and the analysis of site organisation  (Ann Woodward) 7) Pottery and the expression of society, economy and culture  (J D Hill) 8) Ceramic lifes  (Alistair Barclay) 9) Pots as categories: British Beakers  (Robin Boast) 10) Inclusions, impressions and interpretation  (Ann Woodward) 11) A regional ceramic sequence: pottery of the First Millennium BC between the Humber and the Nene  (David Knight) 12) Just about the potter's wheel? Using, making and depositing Middle and Later Iron Age pots in East Anglia  (J D Hill) 13) Roman pottery in Iron Age Britain