Set in stone

New approaches to Neolithic monuments in Scotland

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

As its title might suggest, this volume sets out to present a new view of Scotland's Neolithic as seen via its monumental structures. The papers brought together here came out of a research day at Cardiff University's School of History and Archaeology in January 2002 and cover a diverse number of topics. They raise questions of ancestry and worldview, and highlight the amount that can be done in examining the settings of monuments.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-03-11
Mått:210 x 297 x 9 mm
Vikt:502 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:128
Förlag:Oxbow Books
ISBN:9781842171431

Utforska kategorier

Arkeologiska perioder och områden inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Vicki Cummings is Reader in Archaeology in the School of Forensic and Applied Sciences, University of Central Lancashire where she specialises in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of Britain and Ireland, with a particular focus on monuments and landscape. She has a broader interest in hunting and gathering populations, interpretive archaeology and stone tools.

Recensioner i media

an attractively produced voume, full of thought-provoking ideas and well illustrated.' -- History Scotland History Scotland a carefully written, well-illustrated account, and a good buy.' -- Antiquity Antiquity

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsList of contributorsForeword (Alasdair Whittle)Not my type: discourses in monumentality (Kenneth Brophy)Island views: the settings of the chambered cairns of southern Orkney (Vicki Cummings and Amelia Pannett)Ancestry, farming and the changing architecture of the Clyde cairns of south-west Scotland (Gordon Noble)The chambered cairns of South Uist (Vicki Cummings, Cole Henley and Niall Sharples)A view from within: monumental spaces in the Neolithic of Caithness (Amelia Pannett)The excavation of a chambered cairn at Leaval, South Uist (Vicki Cummings and Niall Sharples)Fishing for meaning: lived space and the early Neolithic of Orkney (Fraser Stuart)The 'henge' and 'hengiform' in Scotland (G. J. Barclay)Choreographed monumentality: recreating the centre of other worlds at the monumental complex of Callanish, western Lewis (Cole Henley)Between a rock and a hard place: rock art and mimesis in Neolithic and Bronze Age Scotland (Andy Jones)