Behind Wooden Walls : Neolithic Palisaded Enclosures in Europe

Five papers, arising from the European Association of Archaeologists' conference held in Lisbon in 2000, which investigate the multiple roles of palisaded enclosures in Neolithic European cultures and ask what they meant to the people who built them. Contents: The Late Neolithic Palisaded Sites of Britain (Alex Gibson); Irish Palisaded Enclosures: A Long Story (Eoin Grogan and Helen Roche); Palisade Enclosures: The Second Generation of Enclosed Sites in the Neolithic of Northern Europe (Mac Svensson); Palisaded Enclosures in the German Neolithic (Michael Meyer); On Palisades, Houses, Vases and Miniatures: the Formative Processes and Metaphors of Chalcolithic Tells (Dragos Gheorghiu).Gibson, Alex M. is the author of 'Behind Wooden Walls : Neolithic Palisaded Enclosures in Europe', published 2002 under ISBN 9781841712932 and ISBN 1841712930.