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Author : Roy Towers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993275715
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (757 download)
Download or read book The Ness of Brodgar written by Roy Towers and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amanda Brend
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789255074
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Landscapes Revealed written by Amanda Brend and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Current Archaeology 2023 Book of the Year 2023 This volume brings together several years of work devoted to the wider landscape of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. It documents the results of a program of geophysical and related survey across an area of c. 285 hectares between Skara Brae on the west Orkney coast and Maeshowe, by the Loch of Stenness. The project has made it possible to talk for the first time about the landscape context of some of the most remarkable and renowned prehistoric monuments in Western Europe. The aims are to synthesize the data from different forms of survey and to document the changing character and development of this landscape over time. The results are genuinely remarkable are presented in a manner which makes the material of interest and value to a relatively wide readership, with an array of images which fully document and interpret the evidence. Survey work at a landscape scale tends to deal with palimpsests. Here descriptive sections are set within a thematic structure designed to explore the changing use and significance of different areas over time. The results shed important new light on the character and extent of known prehistoric sites and ceremonial monuments. But they also document the afterlives of these and other places and their relation to the lived landscapes of the historic and more recent past. In tracing the changing configuration of the World Heritage Area, we can begin appreciate this landscape as an artifact of several millennia of dwelling, working land, attending to wider worlds and to the past itself.
Author : Antonia Thomas
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784914347
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Art and Architecture in Neolithic Orkney written by Antonia Thomas and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a groundbreaking analysis of Neolithic art and architecture in Orkney, focussing upon the incredible collection of hundreds of decorated stones being revealed by the current excavations at the Ness of Brodgar.
Author : Mark Edmonds
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788543432
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)
Download or read book Orcadia written by Mark Edmonds and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological wonders. The Orcadian Neolithic is home to some of the best-preserved Neolithic sites in Europe: here we can find evidence of a dynamic society with connections binding Orkney to Ireland, to southern Britain and to continental Europe. Yet there is much that remains unknown about the societies that created these sites. In Orcadia, Mark Edmonds traces the development of the Orcadian Neolithic from the early fourth millennium BC through to the end of the period nearly two thousand years later, using artefacts, architecture and the wider landscape to recreate the lives of Neolithic communities across the region.
Author : Julian Cope
Publisher : HarperThorsons
ISBN 13 : 9780722535998
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Modern Antiquarian written by Julian Cope and published by HarperThorsons. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique guide to Britain's megalithic culture, rock n' roller Julian Cope provides an inspired fusion of travel, history, poetry, maps, field notes, and pure passion.
Author : Vicki Cummings
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1911188461
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Monuments in the Making written by Vicki Cummings and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolmens are iconic international monumental constructions which represent the first megalithic architecture (after menhirs) in north-west Europe. These monuments are characterised by an enormous capstone balanced on top of smaller uprights. However, previous investigations of these extraordinary monuments have focussed on three main areas of debate. First, typology has been a dominant feature of discussion, particularly the position of dolmens in the ordering of chambered tombs. Second, attention has been placed not on how they were built but how they were used. Finally much debate has centred on their visual appearance (whether they were covered by mounds or cairns). This book provides a reappraisal of the dolmen as an architectural entity and provides an alternative perspective on function. This is achieved through a re-theorising of the nature of megalithic architecture grounded in the results of a new research/fieldwork project covering Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia. It is argued that instead of understanding dolmen simply as chambered tombs these were multi-faceted monuments whose construction was as much to do with enchantment and captivation as it was with containing the dead. Consequently, the presence of human remains within dolmens is also critically evaluated and a new interpretation offered.
Author : Mary-Ann Ochota
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 0711253463
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Secret Britain written by Mary-Ann Ochota and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Secret Britain, join anthropologist and broadcaster Mary-Ann Ochota for a tour of more than 70 of Britain's most intriguing archaeological sites and artefacts.
Author : Alice Albinia
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393063224
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River written by Alice Albinia and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory Stewart One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan’s fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. “This turbulent history, entwined with a superlative travel narrative” (The Guardian) leads us from the ruins of elaborate metropolises, to the bitter divisions of today. Like Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between, Empires of the Indus is an engrossing personal journey and a deeply moving portrait of a river and its people.
Author : Eric Linklater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Northern Garrisons written by Eric Linklater and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynne Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107059372
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies written by Lynne Kelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Lynne Kelly explores the role of formal knowledge systems in small-scale oral cultures in both historic and archaeological contexts. In the first part, she examines knowledge systems within historically recorded oral cultures, showing how the link between power and the control of knowledge is established. Analyzing the material mnemonic devices used by documented oral cultures, she demonstrates how early societies maintained a vast corpus of pragmatic information concerning animal behavior, plant properties, navigation, astronomy, genealogies, laws and trade agreements, among other matters. In the second part Kelly turns to the archaeological record of three sites, Chaco Canyon, Poverty Point and Stonehenge, offering new insights into the purpose of the monuments and associated decorated objects. This book demonstrates how an understanding of rational intellect, pragmatic knowledge and mnemonic technologies in prehistoric societies offers a new tool for analysis of monumental structures built by non-literate cultures.
Author : Andrew Meirion Jones
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789251915
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Making a Mark written by Andrew Meirion Jones and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visual imagery of Neolithic Britain and Ireland is spectacular. While the imagery of passage tombs, such as Knowth and Newgrange, are well known the rich imagery on decorated portable artefacts is less well understood. How does the visual imagery found on decorated portable artefacts compare with other Neolithic imagery, such as passage tomb art and rock art? How do decorated portable artefacts relate chronologically to other examples of Neolithic imagery? Using cutting edge digital imaging techniques, the Making a Mark project examined Neolithic decorated portable artefacts of chalk, stone, bone, antler, and wood from three key regions: southern England and East Anglia; the Irish Sea region (Wales, the Isle of Man and eastern Ireland); and Northeast Scotland and Orkney. Digital analysis revealed, for the first time, the prevalence of practices of erasure and reworking amongst a host of decorated portable artefacts, changing our understanding of these enigmatic artefacts. Rather than mark making being a peripheral activity, we can now appreciate the central importance of mark making to the formation of Neolithic communities across Britain and Ireland. The volume visually documents and discusses the contexts of the decorated portable artefacts from each region, discusses the significance and chronology of practices of erasure and reworking, and compares these practices with those found in other Neolithic contexts, such as passage tomb art, rock art and pottery decoration. A contribution from Antonia Thomas also discusses the settlement art and mortuary art of Orkney, while Ian Dawson and Louisa Minkin contribute with a discussion of the collaborative fine art practices established during the project.
Author : Katharine Scott
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789699657
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Mammoths and Neanderthals in the Thames Valley written by Katharine Scott and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book gives a detailed account of excavations that extended over ten years at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, following the discovery of a mammoth tusk in 1989. More than 1500 vertebrate fossils and a wealth of other biological material were recorded and recovered, along with 36 stone artefacts attributable to Neanderthals.
Author : Christopher Barrowman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780861525348
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (253 download)
Download or read book Archaeology of Ness written by Christopher Barrowman and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Evans
Publisher : Cau Landscape Archives: New Ar
ISBN 13 : 9781902937892
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (378 download)
Download or read book Hinterlands and Inlands written by Christopher Evans and published by Cau Landscape Archives: New Ar. This book was released on 2020-01-19 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Hinterlands - Spanning 25 years of fieldwork across a 3 sq. km swathe on the west side of Cambridge, this and its companion volume present the results of 15 sites, including seven cemeteries. The main focus is on the area's prehistoric 'inland' colonization (particularly its Middle Bronze Age horizon) and the dynamics of its Roman hinterland settlements. The latter involves a variety of farmsteads, a major roadside centre and a villa-estate complex, and the excavation programme represents one of the most comprehensive studies of the Roman countryside anywhere within the lands of its former empire. Appropriately, this book also includes a review of Roman Cambridge, appraising its status as a town.
Author : Michael Carter (Historian)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780712309783
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Writing Britain's Ruins written by Michael Carter (Historian) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the long 18th century (1700-1850), Britain's ruined medieval or "Gothic" abbeys, castles and towers became the objects of intense cultural interest. Turning their attention away from Classical to local and national sites of architectural ruin, antiquaries and topographers began to scrutinize and sketch, record and describe the material remains of the British past, an expression of interest in domestic antiquity that was shared by many contemporary painters, poets, writers, politicians and tourists. This new, highly illustrated book traces the ways in which a selection of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish ruins served as the objects of continuous cultural reflection between 1700 and 1850, drawing together essays on the antiquarian, poetic, visual, oral, fictional, dramatic, political, legal and touristic responses that they engendered. Thoroughly interdisciplinary in its approach, Writing Britain's Ruins provides an accessible and engaging account of the ways in which Britain's ruins inspired writers, artists and thinkers during a period of extraordinary cultural richness.
Author : V. gordon Childe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Skara Brae written by V. gordon Childe and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gillian Hovell
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Visiting the Past written by Gillian Hovell and published by History Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thisguide for the interested amateur on how to spot archaeology in your own local landscape provides a period-by-period guide to the archaeology of Britain and an introduction to sites from all the main periods of British history. A guide to what to look out for and typical sites to visit, it outlines what you might expect to find surviving in the landscape, and providesinformation about how to discover archaeology yourself."
