The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland /

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

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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
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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

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