TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yates, David T.
AB  - A major phase of economic expansion occurred in southern England during the second and early first millennium BC, accompanied by a fundamental shift in regional power and wealth towards the eastern lowlands. This book offers a synthesis of available data on Bronze Age lowland field systems in England, including a gazetteer of sites. The research demonstrates the importance of large-scale animal husbandry in the mixed farming regimes as evidenced in the design of the field systems which incorporate droveways, stock proof fencing, watering holes, cow pens, sheep races and gateways for stockhandling. It is argued that the field systems represented a form of conspicuous production, an "intensification" of agrarian endeavour or a statement of intent, to be understood in relation to the maintenance, display and promotion of hierarchical social systems involved in exchange with their counterparts across the English Channel.
ID  - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45825
KW  - History
KW  - Ancient
KW  - History
KW  - Europe
KW  - Great Britain
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45825/1/external_content.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45825/1/external_content.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38830
PB  - Historic England
PY  - 2007
SN  - 9781842172315
TI  - Land, Power and Prestige : Bronze Age Field Systems in Southern England
ER  - 
