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.

The editors have succeeded in providing a sound platform for consideration of the archaeological evidence. Many valuable approaches are presented, as well as tangible strategies for future work to uncover and give voice to a hitherto under-explored region.'

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsList of Tables and FiguresForewordPart 1. Scotland's Mainland Neolithic in Context1. Gordon Barclay: A career in the Scottish Neolithic, Ian Ralston2. Neolithic Past, Neolithic Present: the socio-politics of prehistory, Gavin MacGregor3. ‘Very real shared traditions’. Thinking about similarity and difference in the Scottish Neolithic, Vicki Cummings4. Who were these people? A sideways view and a non-answer of political proportions, Alex Gibson5. Pathways to ancestral worlds: mortuary practice in the Irish Neolithic, Gabriel CooneyPart 2: Non-megalithic monuments6. Hiatus or hidden? The problem of the missing Scottish upland cursus monuments, Roy Loveday7. Making Memories, Making Monuments: Changing understandings of henge monuments in Central Scotland in prehistory and the present, Rebecca Younger8. Seeing the wood in the trees: the timber monuments of Neolithic Scotland, Kirsty MillicanPart 3: Pits, pots and practice9. Life's the pits! Ritual, refuse and remembrance in North East Scotland, Gordon Noble, Claire Christie and Emma Philip10. Huts, halls and holes: Neolithic settlement in mainland Scotland, Kenneth Brophy11. Rethinking the Balfarg pottery assemblage, Ann MacSween12. Pursuing the penumbral: the deposition of Beaker pottery at Neolithic monuments in Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age Scotland, Neil WilkinAppendixBibliographyIndex

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.

The editors have succeeded in providing a sound platform for consideration of the archaeological evidence. Many valuable approaches are presented, as well as tangible strategies for future work to uncover and give voice to a hitherto under-explored region.'

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsList of Tables and FiguresForewordPart 1. Scotland's Mainland Neolithic in Context1. Gordon Barclay: A career in the Scottish Neolithic, Ian Ralston2. Neolithic Past, Neolithic Present: the socio-politics of prehistory, Gavin MacGregor3. ‘Very real shared traditions’. Thinking about similarity and difference in the Scottish Neolithic, Vicki Cummings4. Who were these people? A sideways view and a non-answer of political proportions, Alex Gibson5. Pathways to ancestral worlds: mortuary practice in the Irish Neolithic, Gabriel CooneyPart 2: Non-megalithic monuments6. Hiatus or hidden? The problem of the missing Scottish upland cursus monuments, Roy Loveday7. Making Memories, Making Monuments: Changing understandings of henge monuments in Central Scotland in prehistory and the present, Rebecca Younger8. Seeing the wood in the trees: the timber monuments of Neolithic Scotland, Kirsty MillicanPart 3: Pits, pots and practice9. Life's the pits! Ritual, refuse and remembrance in North East Scotland, Gordon Noble, Claire Christie and Emma Philip10. Huts, halls and holes: Neolithic settlement in mainland Scotland, Kenneth Brophy11. Rethinking the Balfarg pottery assemblage, Ann MacSween12. Pursuing the penumbral: the deposition of Beaker pottery at Neolithic monuments in Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age Scotland, Neil WilkinAppendixBibliographyIndex

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.

The editors have succeeded in providing a sound platform for consideration of the archaeological evidence. Many valuable approaches are presented, as well as tangible strategies for future work to uncover and give voice to a hitherto under-explored region.'

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsList of Tables and FiguresForewordPart 1. Scotland's Mainland Neolithic in Context1. Gordon Barclay: A career in the Scottish Neolithic, Ian Ralston2. Neolithic Past, Neolithic Present: the socio-politics of prehistory, Gavin MacGregor3. ‘Very real shared traditions’. Thinking about similarity and difference in the Scottish Neolithic, Vicki Cummings4. Who were these people? A sideways view and a non-answer of political proportions, Alex Gibson5. Pathways to ancestral worlds: mortuary practice in the Irish Neolithic, Gabriel CooneyPart 2: Non-megalithic monuments6. Hiatus or hidden? The problem of the missing Scottish upland cursus monuments, Roy Loveday7. Making Memories, Making Monuments: Changing understandings of henge monuments in Central Scotland in prehistory and the present, Rebecca Younger8. Seeing the wood in the trees: the timber monuments of Neolithic Scotland, Kirsty MillicanPart 3: Pits, pots and practice9. Life's the pits! Ritual, refuse and remembrance in North East Scotland, Gordon Noble, Claire Christie and Emma Philip10. Huts, halls and holes: Neolithic settlement in mainland Scotland, Kenneth Brophy11. Rethinking the Balfarg pottery assemblage, Ann MacSween12. Pursuing the penumbral: the deposition of Beaker pottery at Neolithic monuments in Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age Scotland, Neil WilkinAppendixBibliographyIndex