Enclosing the Past: Inside and Outside in Prehistory

by Anthony Harding, Susanne Sievers (Editor), N. VENCLOVA (Editor)

This volume explores how and why people built enclosures in European prehistory, from their first appearance in the Neolithic to the creation of elaborate fortifications in the Iron Age. The articles here originated as a session at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, in 2001, and are written by well-known prehistorians from around Europe. They bring new evidence from new discoveries, and new ideas about old discoveries, to a wider discussion of issues that affect archaeologists of all periods.

177 pages, Hardcover

First published December 30, 2006

About the author

Anthony Harding is a prehistorian, specialising on the European Bronze Age, and has led excavations in Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic as well as Britain. His current research projects are in Romania and Poland.

He was President of the European Association of Archaeologists from 2003 to 2009. He is Chairman of Trustees for Antiquity, and a Fellow of the British Academy, where he is Chairman of the Archaeology Section. He is an editorial board member for the journals Germania and Dacia, and sits on the International Assessment Committee of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, advising the staff on how best to present their work to their funding body (the German Government) and to the public. He is also on the advisory board for the TOPOI research programme based in Berlin.