The text of papers presented at a conference held at the University of Bath in 2002.  Contents include - Fieldwork in the Avebury area; Aerial survey work on the Marlborough Downs; The Marlborough Downs and geophysical methods; Geological history of the Marlborough Downs; The Palaeolithic of the Marlborough Downs; Prehistoric environmental changes on the Marlborough Downs: Mesolithic hunter-gatherer exploitation of the Marlborough Downs; Monuments and middens in the Neolithic landscape: Avebury in the Early Bronze Age; Bronze Age land allotment on the Marlborough Downs; Bronze Age metalwork; Prehistoric linear ditches on the Marlborough Downs; The middle Iron Age on the Marlborough Downs; Settlement in the Avebury region from the Late Roman Period to the Domesday Survey; Monastic settlement and land-use on the Marlborough Downs; Medieval and later sheep farming on the Marlborough Downs.  Illustrated throughout with maps, site plans and b&w photographs.  Includes a lengthy bibliography.  Large paperback.  224 pages.  New condition.  Cat No 4399