The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland / / Ian B. M. Ralston, Kenneth Brophy, Gavin MacGregor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Brophy, Kenneth,; MacGregor, Gavin,; Ralston, Ian B. M.,
• MitwirkendeR: Brophy, Kenneth,; Christie, Claire,; Cooney, Gabriel,; Cummings, Vicki,; Gibson, Alex,; Loveday, Roy,; MacGregor, Gavin,; MacSween, Ann,; Millican, Kirsty,; Noble, Gordon,; Philip, Emma,; Ralston, Ian,; Wilkin, Neil,; Younger, Rebecca K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 66 B/W illustrations 4 B/W tables

Archaeologists show us how the Neolithic human lived in mainland ScotlandGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN: 9780748685738','ISBN: 9780748685721','ISBN: 9780748685745']);What was life like in Scotland between 4000 and 2000BC? Where were people living? How did they treat their dead? Why did they spend so much time building extravagant ritual monuments? What was special about the relationship people had with trees and holes in the ground? What can we say about how people lived in the Neolithic and early Bronze Age of mainland Scotland where much of the evidence we have lies beneath the ploughsoil, or survives as slumped banks and ditches, or ruinous megaliths? Each contribution to this volume presents fresh research and radical new interpretations of the pits, postholes, ditches, rubbish dumps, human remains and broken potsherds left behind by our Neolithic forebears. Key featuresContributions from established and new academicsUp-to-date assessments of ceramics and their context across the 3rd millennium BC in ScotlandRe-evaluation of burial practices across the British Isles from a Scottish contextFirst publication of key datasets – benchmarks for future research"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Notes on the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: ‘The prehistory of my own lands, the lowlands’ -- Part I Scotland’s Mainland Neolithic in Context -- 1 Gordon Barclay: A Career in the Scottish Neolithic -- 2 Neolithic Pasts, Neolithic Futures: The Contemporary Socio-politics of Prehistoric Landscapes -- 3 ‘Very real shared traditions’ ? Thinking about Similarity and Difference in the Construction and Use of Clyde Cairns in the Western Scottish Neolithic -- 4 Who Were These People? A Sideways View and a Non-answer of Political Proportions -- 5 Pathways to Ancestral Worlds: Mortuary Practice in the Irish Neolithic -- PART II Non-megalithic Monuments -- 6 Hiatus or Hidden? The Problem of the Missing Scottish Upland Cursus Monuments -- 7 Making Memories, Making Monuments: Changing Understandings of Henges in Prehistory and the Present -- 8 Seeing the Wood in the Trees: The Timber Monuments of Neolithic Scotland -- PART III Pits, Pots and Practice -- 9 Life is the Pits! Ritual, Refuse and Mesolithic-Neolithic Settlement Traditions in North-east Scotland -- 10 On Ancient Farms: A Survey of Neolithic Potentially Domestic Locations in Lowland Scotland -- 11 The Neolithic Pottery from Balfarg/ Balbirnie Revisited -- 12 Pursuing the Penumbral: The Deposition of Beaker Pottery at Neolithic and Ceremonial Monuments in Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Scotland -- Index