Overview

1. Introduction: the main themes and chronologies;x000D
2. Home is where the hearth is: later Bronze Age settlements;x000D
3. Dividing the land: later Bronze Age land tenure;x000D
4. Metals make the world go round: later Bronze Age practices;x000D
5. The Earliest Iron Age transition (800-600BC): shifting practices and technologies;x000D
6. Creating communities: making middens (c. 900 - 450 BC);x000D
7. Creating communities: making hillforts (c. 900 - 450 BC);x000D
8. Corporate groups: earlier Iron Age farmsteads and enclosures;x000D
9. The substantial roundhouses of Scotland;x000D
10. The rise of the individual: Iron Age burial practices;x000D
11. The first towns? The developed hillforts of Wessex (c. 450 - 100 BC).x000D

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the nature of the archaeological evidence of later prehistoric Britain (e.g. site types; material culture).

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the regional characteristics of the archaeological evidence.

• Demonstrate knowledge of the chronological schemes which have been established for the later Bronze Age and earlier Iron Age of Britain.

• Evaluate competing interpretations of social change and social models that have been offered by archaeologists.

• Show a familiarity with the primary archaeological evidence and analyse a data-set (e.g. derived from excavation reports).

• Show an awareness of the changes in society and social organisation which took place during the later Bronze Age and earlier Iron Age of Britain.