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Author : Torsten Madsen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Earthen Long Barrows and Timber Structures written by Torsten Madsen and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Ashbee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780460077552
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (775 download)
Download or read book The Earthen Long Barrow in Britain written by Paul Ashbee and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Field
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Earthen Long Barrows written by David Field and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Field describes the origin of the neolithic long barrows and their construction, including the pits, standing stones and posts found beneath the later mounds, their location within the countryside and what this might mean for contemporary society.
Author : Magdalena S. Midgley
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Origin and Function of the Earthen Long Barrows of Northern Europe written by Magdalena S. Midgley and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1985 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Tilley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521568210
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (682 download)
Download or read book An Ethnography of the Neolithic written by Christopher Tilley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological research in Sweden and Denmark has uncovered a startling array of evidence over the last 150 years, but until now there has been no comprehensive synthesis and interpretation of the material. An Ethnography of the Neolithic bridges this gap, giving an accessible and up-to-date analysis of a wide range of evidence, from landscapes to monumental tombs to portable artifacts. Christopher Tilley also uses this material as a basis for a provocative and novel reconstruction of late Mesolithic and earlier Neolithic societies in southern Scandinavia, over a period of 3,000 years. His skilful integration of archaeological evidence with new anthropological approaches makes this book an original contribution to an important topic, whose significance stretches outside Scandinavia, and beyond the Neolithic.
Author : Gordon Noble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107159830
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Woodland in the Neolithic of Northern Europe written by Gordon Noble and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed consideration of the ways in which human-environment relations altered with the beginnings of agriculture in the Neolithic of northern Europe.
Author : Paul Ashbee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (795 download)
Download or read book Timber Mortuary Houses and Earthen Long Barrows Again ... written by Paul Ashbee and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134621434
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Understanding the Neolithic written by Julian Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-02-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs contemporary theoretical perspectives to investigate the Neolithic period in southern britain. It is a fully reworked edition of the author's Rethinking the Neolithic (1991).
Author : Kenneth Brophy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317430026
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Reading Between the Lines written by Kenneth Brophy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Between the Lines: The Neolithic Cursus Monuments of Scotland is the first systematic analysis of Scotland’s cursus monuments and is written by one of the foremost scholars of the Neolithic in Scotland. Drawing on fifteen years of experience of cropmark interpretation, as well as his involvement in several excavations of cursus monuments and contemporary sites, Kenneth Brophy uncovers some of the secrets of the Neolithic landscape. While outlining the physical characteristics of the cursus, this book also addresses the limitations of this kind of typological description when applied to monuments which varied so remarkably in terms of materiality and size. Moving beyond a morphological account, Brophy considers what can be said of this diverse group of sites, and how they were actually built and used in prehistory, in light of several decades of aerial reconnaissance and excavation in Scotland. Through a close study of the differences, as well as the similarities, between these structures, this book offers a nuanced account of cursus monuments, finally allowing this important monument type to be better understood and placed alongside others of the period. Offering exciting new ways of thinking about these enigmatic yet important monuments, Reading Between the Lines: The Neolithic Cursus Monuments of Scotland is an essential resource for students and specialists in British prehistory, providing an introduction to the Early Neolithic archaeology of lowland Scotland as well as a meditation on broader aspects of monumentality and architecture.
Author : William Britnell
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789257425
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book The First Stones written by William Britnell and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the results of recent research on the Neolithic long cairns lying in the shadow of the Black Mountains in south-east Wales, focusing upon Penywyrlod and Gwernvale, the two best known tombs within the group, previously excavated in the 1970s. Important results lie in both new site detail and reassessment of the wider context. Small-scale excavation, geophysical survey and geological assessment at Penywyrlod - the largest of the Welsh long cairns - gave further information about the distinctive external and internal architecture of the monument. In turn, this opened the opportunity to reassess the pre-monument sequence at Gwernvale, with re-examination of both Mesolithic and Neolithic occupations, including timber structures and middens, lithic and pottery assemblages, and cereal remains. The frame for wider reassessment is given by fresh chronological modelling both of the monuments themselves, suggesting a sequence from Penywyrlod and Pipton to Ty Isaf and Gwernvale, probably spanning the 38th to 36th centuries cal BC, and of early Neolithic activity in south Wales and the Marches across the same sort of period. A detailed study of the major assemblages of human remains from the Black Mountains tombs includes evidence for diet, trauma and lifestyles of the populations represented. Recent isotope analysis of human remains from the tombs is also reviewed, implying social mobility and migration within local populations during the early Neolithic. This book makes a significant contribution to the study of tomb building, treatment of the dead, place making, and Neolithisation in western Britain. Viewed within the context of tombs within the Cotswold-Severn tradition as a whole, it leads to an appreciation of the local and regional distinctiveness of architecture and mortuary practice exhibited by the tombs in this area of south-east Wales, emerging as part of the intake of a significant inland area in the early centuries of the Neolithic.
Author : Luc Laporte
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785700154
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book The Megalithic Architectures of Europe written by Luc Laporte and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Megalithic monuments are among the most striking remains of the Neolithic period of northern and western Europe and are scattered across landscapes from Pomerania to Portugal. Antiquarians and archaeologists early recognized the family resemblance of the different groups of tombs, attributing them to maritime peoples moving along the western seaways. More recent research sees them rather as the product of established early farming communities in their individual regions. Yet the diversity of the tombs, their chronologies and their varied cultural contexts complicates any straightforward understanding of their origins and distribution. Megalithic Architectures provides new insight by focusing on the construction and design of European megalithic tombs – on the tomb as an architectural project. It shows how much is to be learned from detailed attention to the stages and the techniques through which tombs were built, modified and enlarged, and often intentionally dismantled or decommissioned. The large slabs that were employed, often unshaped, may suggest an opportunistic approach by the Neolithic builders, but this was clearly far from the case. Each building project was unique, and detailed study of individual sites exposes the way in which tombs were built as architectural, social and symbolic undertakings. Alongside the manner in which the materials were used, it reveals a store of knowledge that sometimes differed considerably from one structure to another, even between contemporary monuments within a single region. The volume brings together regional specialists from Scandinavia, Germany, Britain, France, Belgium and Iberia to offer a series of uniquely authoritative studies. Results of recent fieldwork are fully incorporated and much of the material is published here for the first time in English. It provides an invaluable overview of the current state of research on European megalithic tombs.
Author : Mats Larsson
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782972579
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Paths Towards a New World written by Mats Larsson and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the approximately 6,500 years from the beginning of the Late Mesolithic to the transition to the Bronze Age, Mats Larsson takes the reader on a journey through the development of Swedish prehistoric society and culture set against the backdrop of climatic and landscape change. Using examples selected from a wealth of archaeological sites, artefacts and palaeo-environmental studies he explores a series of chronological themes: such as how the relationship between land and water influenced peoples lives in many ways and the development of often long-distance cultural and exchange networks, as reflected in the occurrence of foreign stone axes, flint, copper and pottery. He describes how innovations, such as the introduction of agriculture, spread rapidly during the Neolithic, incorporating characteristics of extensive northern European cultural groups, beginning with the Funnel Beaker Culture with its array of distinctive objects, settlements and burial monuments, while retaining some specific regional and local expressions in material culture. Later, certain characteristics of the Pitted Ware Culture, such as specific types of pottery decoration, were taken up in some areas while the emergence of some regional groups can be seen as a step in the ideological and social changes that led to what we today call the Battle Axe Culture. Towards the end of the Stone Age the battle axe was replaced by the dagger as a symbol of the male warrior as a more stable society emerged in many parts of the country, concentrated around large farms with longhouses. It was only at this late stage that agriculture and the raising of livestock gained a firm hold, and the landscape was opened up permanently.
Author : Robert Chapman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521237758
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (377 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Death written by Robert Chapman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-10-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together studies on the disposal of the dead and the archaeological research potential of found remains.
Author : L.V. Grinsell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317604687
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Burial-mounds of England written by L.V. Grinsell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1936 and rewritten in 1953, this book embodies the results of the author’s extensive researches and fieldwork. Part one considers types of barrows and dating, their building and the cult of the dead from Palaeolithic to Saxon times. A chapter is dedicated to maps and another to fieldwork in particular, while the final bit of the introductory material discussed barrow-digging from the time of the Romans to the twentieth century. Part two is the regional surveys, from Cornwall to Kent and northwards to the Scottish border.
Author : Julian Thomas
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521403771
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Rethinking the Neolithic written by Julian Thomas and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1991-10-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neolithikum - Wirtschaftsgeschichte - Saskralgebäude.
Author : Joshua Pollard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405125462
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Prehistoric Britain written by Joshua Pollard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-06-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by the latest research and in-depth analysis, Prehistoric Britain provides students and scholars alike with a fascinating overview of the development of human societies in Britain from the Upper Paleolithic to the end of the Iron Age. Offers readers an incisive synthesis and much-needed overview of current research themes Includes essays from leading scholars and professionals who address the very latest trends in current research Explores the interpretive debates surrounding major transitions in British prehistory
Author : Julian Thomas
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782979719
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)
Download or read book A Neolithic Ceremonial Complex in Galloway written by Julian Thomas and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complex enclosure identified by aerial photography at Dunragit Galloway, was demonstrated by excavation to have been of Late Neolithic date, and comprised three concentric timber ramped post-rings, 120–300 m in diameter. The two outer post-rings each comprised large uprights interspersed with smaller members, probably forming a continuous palisade. Each was a single-phase structure and the posts had rotted out. The inner ring had largely been made up of large, freestanding posts, most of which had rotted away, but some of which had been deliberately removed, the post-holes being considerably larger than those of the two outer rings. Where posts had been pulled out, a number of elaborate deposits had been placed in the crater left by the post-removal. The entrances to the post-rings are not aligned and the preferred interpretation is that the monument as a whole had two phases of construction, in each of which a timber circle was surrounded by a palisade, and in which the middle post-ring succeeded the outer, or vice-versa. The enclosure had been preceded by a post-defined cursus monument in which all the post had been burned in situ and numerous other post-holes were located on the same axis as the cursus, extending beyond the monument itself. The most elaborate entrance, connected with the middle post-ring, is composed of two parallel lines of features, presumably post-holes, opening toward the south, and aligned on a large earthen mound at Droughduil, 400 m away. Droughduil Mote, though recorded as a medieval motte, recalls the association of various very large mounds with with henges or palisaded enclosures, as at Silbury Hill, Wiltshire. Excavation demonstrated that it had been constructed with stepped sides, and that a stone cairn had been constructed on its summit. A series of optically stimulated luminescence dates on the accumulated sand over the surface of the mound demonstrated that it was certainly not medieval, and was probably Neolithic in date.
