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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812336403321

Titolo

Houses of the dead? / / edited by Alistair Barclay, David Field, Jim Leary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Oxbow Books, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-78925-413-2

1-78925-411-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 pages)

Collana

Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers ; ; 17

Disciplina

930.14

Soggetti

Neolithic period

Mounds

Longhouses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

; 1 Schr�odinger's Cat: Houses for the living and the dead ; p. 1 / Jim Leary and David Field and Alistair Barclay -- ; 2 Hypogea and the clubhouse: Neolithic Malta's houses of the living and houses of the dead ; p. 15 / Robert P. Barratt and Caroline Malone and T. Rowan McLaughlin and E�oin W. Parkinson -- ; 3 Houses of the living, houses of the dead: A view from the Polish lowlands ; p. 39 / Joanna Pyzel -- ; 4 'Cic�eron c'est Poincar�e'. Dealing with geometry: Neolithic house plans and the earliest monuments ; p. 47 / Philippe Chambon -- ; 5 The dead and the Linearbandkeramik longhouse ; p. 59 / Penny Bickle -- ; 6 The long and short of it: Memory and practice in the Early Neolithic of Britain and Ireland ; p. 79 / Alasdair Whittle -- ; 7 Measuring up: Longhouses, enclosures or mounds? ; p. 91 / Roy Loveday -- ; 8 Houses foundational: Gathering histories at Dorstone Hill, Herefordshire ; p. 107 / Keith Ray and Julian Thomas -- ; 9 New work on long barrows in Lincolnshire ; p. 121 / Denise Drury and Tim Allen -- ; 10 A dialogue with the dead? The relationship between an Early Neolithic rectangular timber building and a chambered tomb on Holy Island, Anglesey, north-west Wales ; p. 135 / Jane Kenney -- ; 11 House of the living, house of the dead: An open and shut case from Ballyglass, Co. Mayo? ; p. 145 / Jessica Smyth -- ; 12 Shaky



foundations: Romantic nationalism and the development of the 'Irish model' of Neolithic settlement ; p. 159 / Andrew Whitefield -- ; 13 Structure, metaphor and funerary practices in Neolithic Scotland ; p. 177 / Alison Sheridan -- ; 14 The state of play ; p. 191 / Frances Healy.