Vicki Cummings Papers on Academia.org

https://uclan.academia.edu/VickiCummings/Papers 

A selection - excuse formatting.

Cummings, V. 2012. What lies beneath: Thinking about the qualities and essences of stone and wood in the chambered tomb architecture of Neolithic Britain and Ireland. Journal of Social Archaeology 12, 29-50.

This article considers the interpretation of stone and wood in Neolithic chambered tomb architecture in Britain and Ireland. Against a broader theoretical agenda of both relational materialities and animistic ontologies, it is argued that... more

Research Interests: 

Neolithic Archaeology, Materiality (Anthropology), Megalithic Monuments, and Long barrows and chambered barrows

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Cummings, V. and Harris, O. 2011. Animals, people and places: the continuity of hunting and gathering practices across the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Britain. European Journal of Archaeology 14:3, 361-82.

This article considers the long-debated and thorny issue of the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in Britain. The apparently polarised debate that has dominated this discussion is, we suggest, unhelpful, and rather than... more

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DELIVERING, ASSESSING AND PROVIDING FEEDBACK FOR FIELDWORK MODULES: A CASE STUDY FROM ARCHAEOLOGY

Abstract In this paper we highlight some of the issues surrounding the delivery of fieldwork modules, using archaeological excavation as an example. There are a whole range of issues surrounding the assessment of fieldwork-based modules,... more

Journal Name: UCLan Journal of Pedagogic Research

Publication Date: 2012

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Cummings, V. 2011. Scale and senses of belonging: thinking about regionality in the Neolithic of the Irish Sea zone. In A. Jones and G. Kirkham (eds), Beyond the core: reflections on regionality in prehistory, 33-40. Oxford: Oxbow.

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Cummings, V. 2011. A view from the outside: some thoughts on the research priorities for Mesolithic and Neolithic lithic studies in Britain and Ireland. Lithics 31, 68-77.

This paper considers some possible avenues for new research into the study of lithics for British and Irish assemblages dating from the Mesolithic and Neolithic. While scholars have been successful in extracting detail on technological... more

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Cummings, V. 2010. Formalising the sacred ? The late Mesolithic and early Neolithic monumental landscapes of Britain and Ireland. In G. Warren and B. Finlayson (eds), Landscapes in transition: understanding hunter-gatherer and farming landscapes in the early Holocene of Europe and the Levant. Amman: Council for British Research in the Levant.

One of the big unanswered questions is whether the start of the Neolithic in Britain and Ireland saw the arrival of a new population, bringing with them new forms of material culture from the continent, or whether native hunter-gatherers... more

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Cummings, V. 2009. Monuments at the centre of the world: exploring regional diversity in south-west Wales and south-west Scotland. In K. Brophy and G. Barclay (eds), Regional diversity in the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland. Oxford: Oxbow.

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Cummings, V. 2008. The architecture of monuments. In J. Pollard (ed.), Prehistoric Britain. Oxford: Blackwell.

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UPDATE:

TITLE: Cummings, V. 2007. From midden to megalith ? The Mesolithic/Neolithic transition in western Britain. In A. Whittle and V. Cummings (eds), Going over: the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in NW Europe. London: British Academy.

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TITLE: Cummings, V. and Whittle, A. 2005. Pentre Ifan: east or west? The origins of monumentality in Wales and western Britain. In G. Marchand and A. Tresset (eds), Unité et diversité des processus de néolithisation sur la façade atlantique de l'Europe. Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française.

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TITLE: Cummings, V. 2002b. Experiencing texture and touch in the British Neolithic. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 21:3, 249-61.

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TITLE: Cummings, V., Jones, A. and Watson, A. 2002. In between places: axial symmetry and divided space in the monuments of the Black Mountains, south-east Wales. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12:1, 57-70.

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TITLE: From cairn to cemetery: an archaeological investigation of the chambered cairns and early Bronze Age mortuary deposits at Cairnderry and Bargrennan White Cairn, south-west Scotland. With Chris Fowler.

View the paper here: https://www.academia.edu/t/qx11-JWpNWMG-Q9NUP/2289621

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