British Archaeology, no 15, June 1996


Contents


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News

Listed buildings to be removed for rail link
Pictish cross tests policy on museums
MPs back needs of historic landscape
In Brief

Features

Explaining the human mind
It was advanced in some ways, primitive in others, says Steve Mithen

Social prehistoric on Scottish lochs
A clear picture of Scotland's loch-dwellers is emerging, write Nicholas Dixon and Barrie Andrian

Uncovering the prehistory of sex
The evidence for sexual activity in prehistory has been overlooked, writes Timothy Taylor

Letters

covering Star Trek digging, keep the darkness and no Iron Age fields

Comment

Richard Morris on teaching roadbuilders `value for money'

Books

Warwick Rodwell on the monastic parts others don't reach
Simon Timms on the landscape picture
Bob Laxton on no introduction to tree-ring data
David Gaimster on the mistakes of the Rose and the Globe

Essay

Andrew Sherratt offers a mind-bending explanation of the origins of farming: flying up with the souls of the dead


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