This next in the successful Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers series arises from the day conference held in November 2024. Following on from 2023’s Revisiting Grooved Ware volume, it aims to provide an up-to-date analysis and synthesis of Middle Neolithic (3600–2900 BC) pottery in Britain and Ireland that falls under the umbrella term of Impressed Ware. The pottery represents the final expression of Early Neolithic carinated bowls, which have evolved into highly decorated vessels using a variety of fibre, animal bone, and fingernail/tip impressions to form their distinctive and extensive decoration. The pottery is spread widely over Britain and Ireland with marked regionality as well as a contrasting degree of uniformity. This has never before been studied in detail so this book will provide the first wide overview of Impressed Wares of both Britain and Ireland, looking not just at regionality but also dating. Radiocarbon dates are currently largely restricted to individual site assemblages but this book will bring together regional dates to present a national overview.
Following the format of the Grooved Ware volume, this will be presented as a series of regional syntheses, written by acknowledged experts in their field, with a final chapter to draw together the first truly national consideration of this important ceramic tradition, examining not just its origins, its regional nuances of style but also its much debated legacy.
Introduction
Alex Gibson and Alastair Barclay
1. Impressed Ware and the Middle Neolithic in South-East England: Social Landscapes, Chronology, and Interpretation
Paul Garwood
2. Impressed Ware and the Oval Barrows of Sussex
Jon Baczkowski
3. Impressed Ware of the Middle Thames Valley
Alistair Barclay
4. Impressed Ware of the Avebury Area
Josh Pollard and Ros Cleal
5. Scarcely Ceramic? The Middle Neolithic in the South West Peninsulas
Andy Jones and Henrietta Quinnell
6. Impressed Ware in the East Midlands
Nick Cooper
7. Recently Impressed: Peterborough Wares from East Anglia
Sara Percival
8. Impressed Ware from Lincolnshire
Peter Chowne
9. Impressed Ware in Wales
Frances Lynch
10. Impressed Ware from Scotland and the Borders
Ann MacSween
11. Ireland’s Impressed Ware/s?
Alison Sheridan
12. We Are Not Impressed! Early/Middle Neolithic Pottery in the Outer Hebrides
Mike Copper
13. Investigating the Use of Impressed Wares Through a Synthesis of Pottery Lipid Residue Studies from Early and Middle Neolithic Britain and Ireland
Lucy Cramp and Isobel Wiltshire
14. The Chronology of Impressed Ware
Seren Griffiths
Summary
Alex Gibson
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