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From sickles to circles : Britain and Ireland at the time of Stonehenge / edited by Alex Gibson and Alison Sheridan.
- Title
- From sickles to circles : Britain and Ireland at the time of Stonehenge / edited by Alex Gibson and Alison Sheridan.
- Publication
- Stroud, [England] : Tempus, 2004.
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- Description
- 383 p. : ill., maps, plans; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "In a volume that draws on the expertise of over 20 leading Neolithic and Bronze Age scholars, the rich and complex variety of Neolithic Britain and Ireland is reflected in studies that range from megaliths, Scottish passage-graves and chambered cairns in Orkney to hostilities in early Neolithic Ireland and flintwork in Northern Ireland. The Bronze Age section is headed by a wide-ranging review of Beaker burials and concludes with a review of 40 years of Bronze Age chronologies. Between lie a series of chapters dealing with Bronze Age artefacts and their use in funerary contexts, and a critical evaluation of the dating evidence for the circle henge tradition in Ireland."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface : Derek Simpson : a personal appreciation / Alex Gibson -- Banks and braes : notes for a film-buff fellow / J.V.S. Megaw -- From madhouse to megaliths / Aubrey Burl -- Destuctions, re-erections and re-creations / J.N. Graham Ritchie -- Time, space and the standing stones round Calanais / Patrick Ashmore -- Scottish passage-graves : some confusions and conclusions / Audrey S. Henshall -- The use of human and faunal material in chambered cairns in Orkney / Anna Ritchie -- 'A truth universally acknowledged' : some more thoughts on neolithic round barrows / Ian Kinnes -- The Great Baddow Hoard and discoidal knives : more questions than answers / Gillian Varndell -- Spiralling outwards : the problems and possibilities of a later Neolithic Leitmotiv / Roy Loveday -- Hostilities in early Neolithic Ireland : trouble with the new neighbours : the evidence from Ballyharry, County Antrim / Dermot G. Moore.
- Neolithic flint-work from the north of Ireland : some thoughts on prominent tool types and their production / Eiméar Nelis -- Reading a burial : the legacy of Overton Hill / Frances Healy and Jan Harding -- The Neolithic pottery and the Bronze Age cist at Rath, County Wicklow / A.L. Brindley -- Bell beaker and corded ware culture burial associations : a bottom-up rather than top-down approach / Humphrey Case -- Food vessels with handles / T.G. Manby -- Scottish food vessel chronology revisited / Alison Sheridan -- Small but perfectly formed? Some observations on the Bronze Age cups of Scotland / Alex Gibson -- An important child's burial from Doune, Perth and Kinross, Scotland / Dawn McLaren -- A landscape analysis of the Topped Mountain Region, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland / Ronan McHugh, Eileen Murphy and Barrie Hartwell -- (Con)Fusion of tradition? The Circle Henge in Ireland / William O'Brien -- Forty-five years' researches in the chronology and ordering of the British Bronze Age : a personal memoir / Colin Burgess -- Land snails as a guide to the environment of wind-blown sand : the case of Lauria Cylindracea and Pupilla Muscorum / J.G. Evans.
- ISBN
- 0752429027 (pbk.)
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library