Past and present
Subtitle: excavations at Broom, Bedfordshire 1996-2005
By: by Anwen Cooper and Mark Edmonds, with contributions by Mark Beech [et al] ... illlustrations by Andrew Hall.
Contributors: Edmonds, M. R.; Beech, Mark.; Hall, Andrew.; Cambridge Archaeological Unit (University of Cambridge)
Publisher: Cambridge Archeological Unit
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780954482442
Subjects: Bronze age -- England -- Broom.; Irong age -- England -- Broom.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- Broom.; Broom (England) -- Antiquities.
Description: "Documenting the results of some ten years of fieldwork, this volume explores the prehistoric occupation of a small valley near Broom, on the Bedfordshire gravels. It traces a biography of the landscape from the later Mesolithic through to the Iron Age, a sequence that saw profound changes in the character, scale and temporality of occupation. Undertaken in advance of gravel extraction, the scale of the fieldwork reported here made it possible to track not only the sequence of occupation, but also how prehistoric communities encountered, appropriated, or ignored the 'archaeology' of their time. Set against sequences from across southern England, this work sheds important light on the relationship between local histories and broader processes, and on the complex and geographically varied ways in which the past itself was understood in the past."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: CD-ROM includes appendices of evidence recovered during fieldwork, and searchable plans of larger, complex sites.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-218).