British Archaeology, no 12, March 1996


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Contents


News

Threat to urban research as archive faces closure
Site of Roman defeat emerges in Gaul
Finds-reporting scheme is `an advance'
In Brief

Features

`First farmers' with no taste for grain
Bone analysis suggests Neolithic people preferred meat, writes Mike Richards

Two thousand years on the same land
South Uist's parish borders could be prehistoric, writes Mike Parker Pearson

`Eco-noble savages' who never were
Prehistory contains many examples of people driving animal species to extinction, explains James Steele

Letters

covering Treasure Trove and excavation reports

Comment

Hedley Swain on the impending national museums crisis

Books

Chris Knight on images of potency in rock art
Bob Silvester on history mixed with romantic fiction
Andrew Jones on this detectorist has the right idea

Obituary

Ben Cullen

Interview

Simon Denison talks to Tony Robinson


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