The Prehistoric Society

The Society’s newsletter, PAST, was first produced in July 1986. It is currently published three times a year in April, July and November and carries short articles and reports on current fieldwork, etc...

Contributions are invited from both members and non-members and should be sent to

Joanna Brück,
Department of Archaeology,
University College Dublin,
Dublin 4, Ireland
Email: joanna.bruck@ucd.ie

Contributions on disk or as e-mail attachments are preferred (either Word 6 or RTF files) but hardcopy is also accepted. Illustrations can be sent as drawings, slides, prints or tif files.

Quick Reference:

Past 65, July 2010
1Mb pdf file	The Moon, The Bonfire and The Beaker? Analysing White Inlay From Beaker Pottery in Aberdeenshire A Unique Iron Age Gold Hoard Found Near Stirling The Bronze Age of the Thames Valley: New Research, New Thoughts, New Agendas Phil Dean: In Memoriam Addenda To Our '1935' Edition of PAST Derek Simpson Archive Meetings Programme 2010-2011 A Fantastic International Bronze Age Line-up In Durham, 14 May 2011 – The Prehistoric Society's 2011 Europa Conference The Archaeology and Environment of Prehistoric Rock Carvings on Nen Lawers Newswarp on the Web Lithic Scatters Session, TAG 2009 Journeys to the Underworld: Ritual Transformations of Persons, Objects and Caves in Prehistoric Central Sardinia A Pecked Stone from a Neolithic Settlement Site at Green, Isle of Eday, Orkney

Past 64, April 2010
0.7Mb pdf file	Number 1, 1935 The Hurlers As They Were: Re-Erection Of Ancient Beaker Folk’s Stone Circles Neolithic Man At Whiteleaf Barrow Megaliths And Marmalade At Avebury! From The Editor Dating The Priddy Circles, Somerset Brú Na Bóinne World Heritage Site Research Framework The Isle Of Wight Study Weekend, June 2009 Notice Of The 2010 (For 2009) Annual General Meeting Prehistoric Society Activities 2009 Statement Of Financial Activities For The Year Ended 31 December 2009 Avebury To Norwich 'Thunder Run' Roger Jacobi New Data On Prehistoric High Mountain Agriculture In Teverga, Spain New Rock Art And Old Forests On The Isles Of Scilly A New Woodhenge Forthcoming Event New Books Missing Gold Cup! Work At Maiden Castle Continues Apace

Past 63, November 2009
1.25Mb pdf file	Excavating a Bronze Age Timber Platform at Must Farm, Whittlesey, Near Peterborough New Evidence For Midlate Neolithic Burial From The Colne Valley, West London Pots For The Afterlife: Organic Residue Analysis of British Bronze Age Pottery From Funerary Contexts Successful Research Papers Series Launched The Prehistoric Society's 75th Anniversary Conference News Early Neolithic Pottery From Dartford, Kent Run Of Pps Prehistoric Society Study Tour To Sardinia New Features At Avebury From Hand Coring: Geoarchaeology In Action! Recent (And Not So Recent) Excavations In The Vale Of Pickering

Past 62, July 2009
1.4Mb pdf file	Preliminary Archaeological Survey of the Indigenous Territory Pacaas Novos in Rondônia, Western Brazil A ‘New’ Neolithic Enclosure at Rossnaree, Brú na Bóinne, County Meath Conferences The Solent Basin and West Sussex Raised Beaches Field Meeting of the Quaternary Research Association & Prehistoric Society Meetings Programme 2009–2010 The Europa Day Conference 2009—The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: Searching for the Mesolithic Important: Are You a Star? Two Realistic Neolithic Portraits from the Central Balkans Ian Alexander George Shepherd 1951–2009 Campaign to Restore Carwynnen Quoit, Camborne, Cornwall New Monograph Series Launched: The Prehistoric Society Research Papers The Prehistoric Society Student Study Tour to North Wales, 24–26 April 2009

Past 61, April 2009
1.2Mb pdf file	The Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, Western Scotland Pullyhour—A Signpost to the Past The Neolithic of the Thames Valley: Exploring Regional Diversity Conferences Prehistoric Society Activities 2008 Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 December 2008 Roy Allen Bequest Europa Day 2009 Discoveries to the East of Cranborne Chase: The Damerham Archaeology Project New Initiatives—Prehistoric Society Website and Research Papers Preserving the John Wymer Archive Conquering the Mountains: Landscape Learning and the Colonisation of Cyprus

Past 60, November 2008
0.9Mb pdf file	New Lower Palaeolithic Finds from the Axe Valley, Dorset Prehistory of Mendip, Weekend Study Tour 15–17 August 2008 A Radiocarbon-dated Ebbsfleet Ware Bowl from North Kent Is There a British Chalcolithic? People, Place and Polity in the Later Third Millennium BC The 2008 Prehistoric Society Europa Day Conference The Brú Na Bóinne World Heritage Site, Co. Meath, Ireland: An Emerging Research Framework The Distribution of Arran Pitchstone: Territories, Exchange and the ‘English Problem’ Death and Burial in a Basalt Landscape: The Homs Cairn Project, Syria The Prehistoric Society Student Study Tour, Northumberland National Park, April 2008

Past 59, July 2008
4.8Mb pdf file	New Work near Nutbourne, West Sussex A Coastal Survey of Western Marmarica Childe Fifty Years After Rapid Field Investigation Methods and a New Mesolithic Site Approach for the Weald, UK Meetings Programme 2008–2009 Research and Conservation Framework for the British Palaeolithic Book Offer Run Of PPS Recent Discoveries of Peterborough Ware in Central London Conferences The Southern Kintyre Project: Interactions Across the Irish Sea Rambles in Rock Art Part 3: The Petroglyphs of Sarmishsai

Past 58, April 2008
4.4Mb pdf file	Prehistoric Society Visit to Silbury Hill, October 2007 Geophysical Survey on a Southern French Oppidum Prehistoric Society UK Study Tour 2007 Conferences, Meetings And Other News A Neolithic Structure of Possible Ritual Significance from the Republic of Macedonia Run Of PPS For Sale Book Offer The American Southwest: An Archaeological Study Tour Stonehenge Road Scheme and Visitor Centre Geophysical Fieldwork at Whitchurch, Warwickshire Prehistoric Ritual and Ceremony at Lismullin, County Meath, Ireland

Past 57, November 2007
0.9Mb pdf file	Excavating Art: Recent Excavations At The Rock Art Sites At Torbhlaren, Near Kilmartin, Mid-Argyll, Scotland Inqua Conference, Cairns 2007 The Irish Early Neolithic House - New Insights? Bitting Damage: Investigating Prehistoric Horse Use Society News Conferences, Meetings And Other News Erratum Run Of PPS For Sale A Middle Bronze Age Metalworking Building And Enclosure At Sigwells, Somerset, England Readers’ Comments The Pairing Of Enclosures: Excavations At Winnall Down Ii, Hampshire East Meets West, The Agricultural Transition Way

Past 56, July 2007
1.6Mb pdf file	The Petroglyphs Of Tamgaly, Kazakhstan New Excavations At Star Carr The Pre-Roman Archaeology Of Chester’s Roman Amphitheatre The Salcombe Find – Some Comments From Readers The 2007 Europa Lecture Europa 2008: A New Location, A New Format And A Major Event Prehistoric Society Meetings And Events 2007-8 Dating A Pegged, Socketed, Leaf-Blade Spearhead From Lancashire: Some Implications For The Region’s Bronze Age Conference News A Shockingly New Pit alignment On The Trent Gravels An Inka Administrative Site In The Ancash Highlands, North-Central Andes Decoration On The Neolithic Painted Vessels From The Republic Of Macedonia

Past 55, April 2007
1.2Mb pdf file	An Iron Age Decapitation From The Sculptor’s Cave, Covesea, Northeast Scotland The Faunal Remains From Totty Pot, Somerset Residue Analysis On Bell Beaker Ceramics From Hostice, Moravia Mediterranean Bronze Found In English Waters Developing The English Heritage Research Strategy For Prehistory Conference News Bronze Age Connections The Bronze Age Forum 2006 The Prehistoric Society 2006 Statement Of Financial Activities For The Year Ended 31 December 2006 Biological Regionalism On Neolithic Cyprus Interactions Across The Irish Sea: The Southern Kintyre Project A Geophysical Survey Of Arminghall Henge, Norfolk The Sixteenth Europa Lecture

Past 54, November 2006
1Mb pdf file	An Anthropomorphic Pot From Bronze Age Ireland A Prehistoric Complex In The Dee Valley, Aberdeenshire: Further Work Reveals More Surprises Transitions And Transformations: Investigations Into The Prehistory Of The Ardnamurchan Peninsula Understanding The Scottish Iron Age? Introducing The Society’s New President Election Of Council Members Society News Change Of Date For Dayschool In Honour Of John Wymer Prehistoric Society Lecture The Prehistoric Society Research Weekend At Dillington House, Somerset: Fields, Farming And Settlement Martin Green Honoured By Reading University Avebury World Heritage Site Research Agenda Ordos Man And Inner Mongolia The Ukhtasar Rock Art Research Project Investigating The ‘Deer Stones’ Of Mongolia

Past 53, July 2006
1.2Mb pdf file	Codford Circle: Iron Age Pits and Feasting Geheimnisvolle Kreisgräben: An Exhibition On Neolithic Enclosures At Heldenberg, Vienna Pools, Glowing Coals And Mud Volcanoes In Bulgarian Prehistory Society News The Europa Lecture 2006 Conference News Land And People: Conference In Honour Of John Evans Intriguing Discoveries At Ballybrowney, County Cork The Prehistoric Society Uk Study Tour, 2006 Hidden Wessex: What You Don’t See From The Road

Past 52, April 2006
0.8Mb pdf file	A New Avenue at Durrington Walls People and Wetlands in the Open Karst of Istria, Croatia An Engraved Neolithic Plaque and Associated Finds from King’s Stanley, Gloucestershire A303 Stonehenge Improvement The ‘Red Man’ of Kilbeg: An Early Bronze Age Idol From County Offaly Notice of the 2006 Annual General Meeting Summary of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 december 2005 Subscriptions Research Grants Recent Topographical Survey of the Lone Meg Stone Circle, Cumbria Conference News Plants for Food, Plants as Raw Materials: Plant Use in the Past and One Way to Detect It John James Wymer MA, DSC, FBA, FSA Aileen Fox 1907-2005 Andrew Sherratt (1946-2006) Isobel Smith (1912-2005) New Light on the Palaeolithic of the Near East (Syria) The Fifteenth Europa Lecture

Past 51, November 2005
0.9Mb pdf file	The Loughcrew Landscape Project Excavations At Pes, Teraungureascan The Cheileturzii Gorge (Turda,Transylvania) Flint Artefacts in the BGS Fossil Collection The Croatia Study Tour Society News PPS 71 Society Study Tours Prehistoric Society Student Study Tour Prehistoric Society Presents For Christmas Conference News Let Us “Have A Little Chat” Around Pembrokeshire: The Uk Study Tour 2005 The Palaeolithic Rivers Of South-West Britain Rock Art From A Bronze age Cairn At Balblair, Near Inverness

Past 50, July 2005
0.9Mb pdf file	New Light on the Earliest Neolithic in the Dee Valley, Aberdeenshire Long Meg: Rock Art Recording Using 3D Laserscanning A First for the Society! Society News Introducing the Society’s New President Society Correspondence John Gwynne Evans Graham Ritchie 1942-2005 A Ring Cairn and Beaker Burial at Gray Hill, Llanfairdiscoed, Monmouthshire An Engraved Neolithic Plaque With Grooved Ware Associations Niah Cave and the People of Sundaland

Past 49, April 2005
2.2Mb pdf file	Traprain Law: Archaeology from the Ashes The New Rock Art Discoveries at Traprain Law Mount Pleasant, Dorchester: Cropmarks Old and New A Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic Site at Langley’s Lane, Near Midsomer Norton, Somerset Notice of the 2005 Annual General Meeting Summary of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 December 2004 The Fourteenth Europa Lecture Study Tour to Northern Pembroke Derek Simpson 1938-2005 Survey at Arediou-Vouppes, Cyprus Conference News St Kilda: The Prehistory of a Distant Archipelago The Nebra Sky-Disc

Past 48, November 2004
	A Unique 'Urnfield' Find from Ireland Mines, Bats and Caves - The Nature of Lithic Studies on the Croatian Coast The Prehistoric Society UK Study Tour to Northern Ireland Society News Knapping Techniques, Manufacture and Replication Reconsidered: Breaking Stones for a Weekend Tenth International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists Reconstructing the Houses of Neolithic Jordan Conference News Hambledon Hill, the View from 2004

Past 47, July 2004
	Evidence For The Use Of Birch-Bark Tar From Iron Age Britain A Human Catastrophe? The Impact Of The 74kyr Ep Volcanic Eruption Of Mount Toba, Sumatra, On Human Populations In India Research Day On Monumentality In Late Neolithic And Early Bronze Age Britain, Cardiff University, 17 January 2004 Ninth Annual Meeting Of The European Association Of Archaeologists, St Petersburg, Russia, 10th – 14th September 2003 Society News Photographic Archive Appeal – Or – Did You Really Have That Beard? Electromagnetic Explorations At Minanha And Pusilha, Eelize: 2003 Reconnaissance Forthcoming Conferences Megalithic Stone Row Discovered On Dartmoor’s Remotest Hill

Past 46, April 2004
	Ringlemere: The Nature of the Gold Cup Monument The Barysbrook Bowstave North-East Research Framework for the Historic Environment Conference News Two Recent Meetings on Rock Art Notice of the Annual General Meeting Meetings and Study Tours 2003-2004 Membership Update 2003-2004 Society Awards 2003-2004 Summary of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 December 2003 Madge Langdon The Shotton Project: A Midlands Palaeolithic Network Introducing ‘PAMELA’: The Upper Palaeolithic & Mesolithic Database for England The Investigation of a Possible Cucuteni Salt Production Site in Romania, Summer 2003 The Society's Study Tour of Poland 22-29 October 2003

Past 45, November 2003
	A Newly Discovered Neolithic Enclosure At Lower Luggy, Berriew, Powys Editorial Note Stonehenge And The A303 Improvement Iron Age Idolatry In County Offaly? Conference News The Stonehenge Riverside Project: New Approaches To Durrington Walls The Craven Museum Lithics Collection Database Runs Of PPS Need A Good Home The Thirteenth Europa Lecture – Date Change The Prehistoric Society’s Visit To Northumberland National Park Society News Carved Stones: Historic Scotland’s Approach Excavations Of Bronze Age Field Systems On Shovel Down, Dartmoor, 2003