Stuart Needham
British Museum
43 Papers
516 Citations
Stuart Needham is an academic researcher from British Museum. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bronze Age & Bronze. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 43 publications. Previous affiliations of Stuart Needham include Cardiff University.
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Papers
Transforming Beaker Culture in North-West Europe; Processes of Fusion and Fission
Stuart Needham
- 01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the continental background for Beaker-carrying cultures, a corridor of Bell Beaker/Corded Ware fusion is perceived along the southern flanks of the Channel.
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Refuse and the formation of middens
Stuart Needham,Tony Spence +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, general thoughts on an archaeology of refuse are applied to the specific case of these 1st-millennium BC sites in southern England in an attempt to comprehend their origin and scale in terms of the period's social geography.
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The age of Stonehenge
Mike Parker Pearson,Ros Cleal,Peter Marshall,Stuart Needham,Josh Pollard,Colin Richards,Clive Ruggles,Alison Sheridan,Juergen Thomas,Chris Tilley,Kate Welham,Andrew T. Chamberlain,Carolyn Chenery,Jane Evans,Christopher J. Knüsel,Neil Linford,Louise Martin,Janet Montgomery,Andy Payne,Michael P. Richards +19 more
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the ambiguous dating of the trilithons, the grand centrepiece of Stonehenge, was based on samples taken from the wrong context, and can now be settled at 2600-2400 cal BC.
Beaker people in Britain: migration, mobility and diet
Mike Parker Pearson,Andrew T. Chamberlain,Mandy Jay,Michael P. Richards,Alison Sheridan,Neil Curtis,Jane Evans,Alex Gibson,Margaret Hutchison,Patrick Mahoney,Peter Marshall,Janet Montgomery,Stuart Needham,Sandra O'Mahoney,Maura Pellegrini,Neil Wilkin +15 more
TL;DR: The appearance of the distinctive Beaker package marks an important horizon in British prehistory, but was it associated with immigrants to Britain or with indigenous converts? Analysis of the skeletal remains of 264 individuals from the British Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age is revealing new information about the diet, migration and mobility of those buried with Beaker pottery and related material as discussed by the authors.
Selective deposition in the British Early Bronze Age
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on deposition and argue that various depositional modes were intended to be permanent in Early Bronze Age Britain, with mutual exclusion as a dominant feature, and suggest the use of early metalwork in display and parade, as denoter of rank or symbolic expression.
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