Caren Bendror

An Embodied Archipelago: Bioarchaeology and World-Building in the Neolithic British Isles

This dissertation argues that the Neolithic of the British Isles is best understood not as the gradual adoption of farming or the diffusion of a cultural “package,” but as the rapid installation of a circulation-dependent, monumentally structured archipelagic world built through labor, movement, architecture, and the m...