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Title

Vessels for the ancestors : essays on the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland in honour of Audrey Henshall / edited by Niall Sharples and Alison Sheridan.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [1992], ©1992.

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Additional Authors

• Sharples, Niall M.
• Sheridan, Alison.
• Henshall, A. S. (Audrey S.)

Description

366 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

• In this volume a group of distinguished prehistorians present the latest work on the Neolithic of the north and west of Britain and Ireland, areas with some of the most impressive monuments and material culture in north-west Europe. The contents are presented in four sections: funerary studies; megalithic art; artefact studies; and regional studies. Traditional scholarly presentations are combined with contemporary theoretical approaches and methodological discussion.
• A substantial quantity of hitherto unpublished material is incorporated. The papers serve to transform our understanding of the Neolithic of these areas, and are guaranteed to stimulate lively discussion.
• . Contributors include not only well-known archaeologists such as Richard Bradley, Roger Mercer and George Eogan, but also younger scholars active in contemporary Neolithic studies, such as Ann MacSween, Rosamund Cleal, Gabriel Cooney and Mark Edmonds.

Subject

• Neolithic period > Great Britain
• Burial > Great Britain
• Petroglyphs > Great Britain
• Tools, Prehistoric > Great Britain
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Great Britain
• Great Britain > Antiquities

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 332-356.

Contents

• Notes on radiocarbon dates and terminology. 1. Introduction: the state of Neolithic studies in Scotland / Alison Sheridan and Niall Sharples -- Pt. 1. Funerary Studies. 2. Megalithic architecture / John Barber. 3. The Bargrennan group of chambered cairns: circumstance and context / Jane Murray. 4. Cumulative cairn construction and cultural continuity in Caithness and Orkney / Roger Mercer. 5. Doorways into another world: the Orkney-Cromarty chambered tombs / Colin Richards. 6. Are the Clava 'passage graves' really passage graves?: a reconsideration of the nature and associations of the Clava passage graves and ring-cairns / Gordon Barclay. 7. Balnagowan and after: the context of non-megalithic mortuary sites in Scotland / Ian Kinnes. 8. Mortuary structures and megaliths / J.G. Scott. 9. Scottish and Irish Passage Tombs: some comparisons and contrasts / George Eogan. 10. Body politics and grave messages: Irish Neolithic mortuary practices / Gabriel Cooney.
• 11. Monuments, movement and the context of megalithic art / Julian Thomas -- Pt. 2. Decorated Stones. 12. The spiral-decorated stone at Llanbedr, Meirionydd / Frances Lynch. 13. Turning the world - rock-carvings and the archaeology of death / Richard Bradley -- Pt. 3. Artefact Studies. 14. 'Their use is wholly unknown' / Mark Edmonds. 15. Scottish stone axeheads: some new work and recent discoveries / Alison Sheridan. 16. Stone axeheads and Cushion maceheads from Orkney and Shetland: some similarities and contrasts / Roy Ritchie. 17. Maceheads and the Orcadian Neolithic / Derek Simpson and Rachael Ransom. 18. Artefacts of coarse stone from Neolithic Orkney / Ann Clarke. 19. Orcadian Grooved Ware / Ann MacSween. 20. Neolithic pottery from Barbush Quarry, Dunblane, Perthshire, with notes on the Earlier Neolithic pottery of eastern and central Scotland / Trevor G. Cowie. 21. Significant form: ceramic styles in the Earlier Neolithic of southern England / Rosamund Cleal --
• Pt. 4. Regional Studies. 22. The Hebridean Neolithic / Ian Armit. 23. Aspects of regionalisation in the Scottish Neolithic / Niall Sharples.

ISBN

0748603417

LCCN

gb 92027159

OCLC

• 27977632
• ocm27977632

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries