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Machine generated contents note: List of Contributors ix

List of Figures x

List of Tables xii

Introduction I

Paul Slack and Ryk Ward

i. Early Beginnings 500,000-3 5,000 Years Ago I

Clive Gamble

2. The Homo Sapiens Peopling of Europe 39

Paul Mellars

Comment: End of Story? 68

Andrew Sherratt

3. The Coming of Agriculture: People, Landscapes,

and Change c.4000-I 5oo BC 77

Alasdair Whittle

Comment: Significant Transitions IIo

Colin Renfrew

4. Tribes and Empires c. I500 BC-AD 500 115

Barry Cunliffe

Comment: Questions of Identities I39

Martin Millett

5. Kings and Warriors: Population and Landscape from

Post-Roman to Norman Britain 145

Heinrich Hirke

6. Plagues and Peoples: The Long Demographic Cycle,

I250-I670 I77

Richard Smith

Comment: Perceptions and People 211

Paul Slack

7. Country and Town: The Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary

Peopling of England in the Early Modern Period 217

E. A. Wrigley

Comment: Prometheus Prostrated? 243

John Langton

8. Empire, the Economy, and Immigration: Britain 1850-2000 255

Ceri Peach

Index 281