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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788294003321

Autore

Brophy Kenneth

Titolo

The neolithic of mainland Scotland / / edited by Kenneth Brophy, Gavin MacGregor and Ian Ralston [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-4744-1886-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 322 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

936.1

Soggetti

Neolithic period - Scotland

Prehistoric peoples - Scotland

Scotland Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



Sommario/riassunto

Archaeologists show us how the Neolithic human lived in mainland Scotland, with new research, first publication of key datasets and radical reinterpretation of both burial practices and ceramics across 3rd millennium BC mainland Scotland.