Woodland in the Neolithic of Northern Europe The Forest as Ancestor

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Engaging with the environment -- Defining the Neolithic -- Relationships with the environment -- The changing environments of the Neolithic -- Previous studies -- Outline of the book -- 2 The forest in the Neolithic of northern Europe -- Introduction -- After the ice -- The coming of the farmers -- South Scandinavia -- Britain and Ireland -- Seeing the wood for the trees -- Conclusions -- 3 Altering the environment -- Introduction -- Altering the environment: the practice of forest clearance -- The Draved Forest experiment -- The Axe Age -- Axes and people -- Conclusions: Axes and the Neolithic -- 4 The woodland landscape -- Introduction -- The woodland landscape -- Woodland living in the Strathmore Valley -- Forest, farm, monument in Neolithic Denmark -- Conclusions -- 5 The forest as architecture -- Introduction -- The forest as architecture -- Lively architectures -- Clearance as architecture -- Lively materials -- Materials of life -- The affordances of the environment: the Somerset Levels -- Conclusions -- 6 The environment as ancestor: Timber monumentality -- Introduction -- Timber monumentality -- Tree architecture in the early Neolithic of Denmark -- Tree architecture in the early Neolithic of Britain -- Framing the dead -- The environment as ancestor -- Timber monumentality in the later phases of the Neolithic -- Conclusions -- Coda -- 7 Extending roots: Conclusions -- Routine engagement. . . -- Reflexive architecture. . . -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Engaging with the environment -- Chapter 3 Altering the environment -- Chapter 4 The woodland landscape -- Chapter 5 The forest as architecture -- Chapter 6 The environment as ancestor: Timber monumentality -- Bibliography -- Index