From machair to mountains [[electronic resource] ] : archaeological survey and excavation in South Uist / / edited by Mike Parker Pearson

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; Oakville, Conn., : Oxbow Books, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (441 p.)
• Disciplina: 936.1/14; 936.114
• Soggetto topico: Archaeological surveying - Scotland - South Uist; Excavations (Archaeology) - Scotland - South Uist; Archaeology and history - Scotland - South Uist
• Soggetto geografico: South Uist (Scotland) Antiquities
• Altri autori: Parker PearsonMichael <1957->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I. Survey -- The machair survey / Mike Parker Pearson -- The blacklands survey : Cill Donnain and Gearraidh Bhailteas townships / Andrew Fleming -- The mountains survey : Loch Aoineart / John Moreland -- The chambered cairns of South Uist / Vicki Cummings, Cole Henley and Niall Sharples -- Duns, brochs and crannogs : Medieval use / John Raven -- The shielings survey : central South Uist / John Raven -- Upland settlement in southern South Uist / Rachel Grahame -- Part II. Excavation -- Loch a' Choire Neolithic settlement / Cole Henley -- Early Bronze Age Settlements at Machair Mheadhanach and Cill Donnain / Mike Hamilton and Niall Sharples -- The Beaker-period and Early Bronze Age settlement at Sligeanach, Cill Donnain / Niall Sharples -- Excavations of an Iron Age islet settlement in Upper Loch Bornish / Pete Marshall and Mike Parker Pearson -- Excavations on Aisgernis and Frobost machair / Mike Parker Pearson -- Excavations at Cille Donnain church / Mike Parker Pearson -- Excavations at Medieval Gearraidh Bhailteas (Garryvaltos), Milton / James Symonds -- Excavations at A Beinn na Mhic Aongheis (the Hill of the Son of Angus), Bornais / Mike Parker Pearson, Pete Marshall and Helen Smith -- Excavation of early modern, early historic and prehistoric sites in Kirkidale / John Moreland -- Part III. Historical and Geographical Studies -- Locheynort (Loch Aoineart) in the historical period / Gill MacLean -- The ethnohistory of Hebridean agriculture / Helen Smith -- Part IV. Conclusion -- Settlement, agriculture and society in South Uist before the Clearances / Mike Parker Pearson -- Appendix -- English-Gaelic glossary of place-names.
• Sommario/riassunto: South Uist in the Outer Hebrides has some of the best preserved archaeological remains within Britain and even further afield. Three distinct ecological zones - grassland machair plain, peaty blackland and mountains - each bear the imprint of human occupation over many millennia. The machair strip, long uninhabited, is filled with hundreds of settlement mounds, occupied from the Beaker period 4,000 years ago until a few centuries ago. The blacklands bear the traces of past farming practices as well as the remains of medieval settlements, more recent blackhouses and lochs containing duns, broch
• Titolo autorizzato: From machair to mountains
• ISBN: 1-84217-887-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910552997003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Sheffield environmental and archaeological research campaign in the Hebrides (Series) ; ; v. 4.