The Prehistory and Early History of Atlantic Europe

Eleven papers from a session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Fourth Annual Meeting in Goteborg, 1998, aimed at promoting the study of the contacts, connections, events and influences that took place among Atlantic communities from the 5th millennium BC to the 1st millennium AD. Contents: Achnacreebeag and its French connections (A Sheridan); Early husbandry in Atlantic areas (A Tresset); Interaction between early farmers and indigenous people in Central Belgium (M Lodewijckx & C Bakels); Field systems and the Atlantic Bronze Age (R Johnston); Exchange and communication (C Mount); Later Bronze Age western Iberia (C Gibson); Scottish Atlantic Iron Age (E MacKie); Drystone settlement records of Atlantic Scotland and Ireland (J Henderson); 1st millennia settlement development in the Atlantic West (S Gilmour); Stone forts along the Atlantic coast of Ireland (C Cotter); Material culture and North Sea contacts in the 5th to 7th centuries AD