Andrew Fleming (archaeologist)

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Andrew Fleming is a British prehistorian who has primarily dealt with landscape archeology and the study of prehistoric field systems. Together with Colin Renfrew and Richard Bradley , he was one of the co-founders of TAG ( Theoretical Archeology Group ) in 1979 , which has held regular conferences in Great Britain ever since. Fleming studied at Cambridge and was a professor in Sheffield and Lampeter , but has now retired. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland .

research

Fleming is best known for the discovery of the Dartmoor Reaves , a system of Bronze Age field boundaries, which is the basis of a system of border demarcation and field systems in Dartmoor comprising several settlement chambers . Fleming is a representative of New Archeology and is opposed to post-processional landscape archeology and phenomenology , as represented particularly by Christopher Tilley . After retiring, Fleming is working on early medieval agriculture in Dartmoor , Monks' Trod in central Wales, a medieval road connecting the Cistercian monasteries of Strata Florida and Cwmhir Abbey , and post-medieval forest grazing systems in Wales.

Works

  • The Dartmoor Reaves. Investigating prehistoric land divisions. London, Batsford 1988, ISBN 0-7134-5665-5 , (2nd edition, expanded new edition. Windgather Press, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-1-905119-15-8 ).
  • As editor with Richard Hingley: Prehistoric and Roman Landscapes (= Landscape History after Hoskins . Volume 1). Windgather Press, Macclesfield 2007, ISBN 978-1-905119-17-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Professor Andrew Fleming , accessed May 5, 2015.