By Christopher Evans & Ian Hodder

Set in the context of this project's innovative landscape surveys, four extraordinary sites excavated at Haddenham, north of Cambridge chart the transformation of Neolithic woodland to Romano-British marshland, providing unrivalled insights into death and ritual in a changing prehistoric environment. Volume 2 focuses on the later periods, and reveals how Iron Age and Romano-British communities adapted to the wetland environment that had now become established. The prolific finds from the Iron Age settlement compound, the Snow's Farm barrow and the Romano-British shrine complex, many of them excellently preserved owing to the waterlogged conditions, included a wide range of wetland animal species. From the Romano-British shrine came a remarkable sequence of votive animal deposits. Careful analysis of the finds allowed nuanced insights into the operation of such a rural shrine and, in particular, the nature of sacrifice and ritual transformation. With more than sixty-five contributing specialists, this publication and the excavations on which it is based is groundbreaking in its methodology and in its approach to the study of the Fenland cultural landscape. The international significance of the results make this volume essential not only to all practitioners of British and European prehistory, but to wetland and landscape archaeologists in general.

• Complete volume - Haddenham Project Vol. 2 - Marshland communities and cultural landscapes
• Chapter 1 - Introduction: Themes and Knowledges
• Chapter 2 - Barrow Investigations
• Chapter 3 - Bronze Age Usage: Landscape Sketches and Environmental Change
• Chapter 4 - HAD IV: an Iron Age Shrine?
• Chapter 5 - The HAD V Enclosure: Constructing the Domestic
• Chapter 6 - The Iron Age Landscape
• Chapter 7 - The Shrine Complex: Situating Ritual (HAD III)
• Chapter 8 - The Roman Landscape
• Chapter 9 - The Landscape of ‘Improvement’: Post-medieval Times
• Chapter 10 - Reclamations: Communities in the Level
• References