The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland / / Ian B. M. Ralston, Kenneth Brophy, Gavin MacGregor.
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 66 B/W illustrations 4 B/W tables |
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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