What was life like in Scotland between 4000 and 2000 BC? Where were people living? Why did they spend so much time building extravagant ritual monuments? This volume presents fresh research and radical new interpretations of the pits, postholes, ditches, rubbish clumps, human remains and broken potsherds left behind by our Neolithic forebears.
What was life like in Scotland between 4000 and 2000 BC? Where were people living? Why did they spend so much time building extravagant ritual monuments? This volume presents fresh research and radical new interpretations of the pits, postholes, ditches, rubbish clumps, human remains and broken potsherds left behind by our Neolithic forebears.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kenneth Brophy is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. His specialisms are the British Neolithic and early Bronze Age, and over the past two decades he has excavated a range of prehistoric monuments and cropmark sites across Scotland including ceremonial enclosures, timber halls and stone rows. He is the author of Reading between the lines: the Neolithic cursus monuments of Scotland (2015). Gavin MacGregor is Honorary Research Fellow at the Univeristy of Glasgow. He has worked in Scottish archaeology in both research and consultancy contexts and is currently a Director at Northlight Heritage where he is responsible for a range of applied heritage projects and programmes. Ian Ralston is Abercromby Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, is presently President of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. He has excavated hillforts in France at Mont Beuvray in Burgundy and Levroux and Bourges in Berry. The writer of some 150 published papers, he is the author or editor of more than 20 books. Ian has also extensively researched Scottish archaeological topics including both pre- and post-Roman hillforts.
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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Tables and Figures Foreword Part 1. Scotland's Mainland Neolithic in Context 1. Gordon Barclay: A career in the Scottish Neolithic, Ian Ralston 2. Neolithic Past, Neolithic Present: the socio-politics of prehistory, Gavin MacGregor 3. 'Very real shared traditions'. Thinking about similarity and difference in the Scottish Neolithic, Vicki Cummings 4. Who were these people? A sideways view and a non-answer of political proportions, Alex Gibson 5. Pathways to ancestral worlds: mortuary practice in the Irish Neolithic, Gabriel Cooney Part 2: Non-megalithic monuments 6. Hiatus or hidden? The problem of the missing Scottish upland cursus monuments, Roy Loveday 7. Making Memories, Making Monuments: Changing understandings of henge monuments in Central Scotland in prehistory and the present, Rebecca Younger 8. Seeing the wood in the trees: the timber monuments of Neolithic Scotland, Kirsty Millican Part 3: Pits, pots and practice 9. Life's the pits! Ritual, refuse and remembrance in North East Scotland, Gordon Noble, Claire Christie and Emma Philip 10. Huts, halls and holes: Neolithic settlement in mainland Scotland, Kenneth Brophy 11. Rethinking the Balfarg pottery assemblage, Ann MacSween 12. Pursuing the penumbral: the deposition of Beaker pottery at Neolithic monuments in Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age Scotland, Neil Wilkin Appendix Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Tables and Figures Foreword Part 1. Scotland's Mainland Neolithic in Context 1. Gordon Barclay: A career in the Scottish Neolithic, Ian Ralston 2. Neolithic Past, Neolithic Present: the socio-politics of prehistory, Gavin MacGregor 3. 'Very real shared traditions'. Thinking about similarity and difference in the Scottish Neolithic, Vicki Cummings 4. Who were these people? A sideways view and a non-answer of political proportions, Alex Gibson 5. Pathways to ancestral worlds: mortuary practice in the Irish Neolithic, Gabriel Cooney Part 2: Non-megalithic monuments 6. Hiatus or hidden? The problem of the missing Scottish upland cursus monuments, Roy Loveday 7. Making Memories, Making Monuments: Changing understandings of henge monuments in Central Scotland in prehistory and the present, Rebecca Younger 8. Seeing the wood in the trees: the timber monuments of Neolithic Scotland, Kirsty Millican Part 3: Pits, pots and practice 9. Life's the pits! Ritual, refuse and remembrance in North East Scotland, Gordon Noble, Claire Christie and Emma Philip 10. Huts, halls and holes: Neolithic settlement in mainland Scotland, Kenneth Brophy 11. Rethinking the Balfarg pottery assemblage, Ann MacSween 12. Pursuing the penumbral: the deposition of Beaker pottery at Neolithic monuments in Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age Scotland, Neil Wilkin Appendix Bibliography Index
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