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Dwelling among the monuments : the Neolithic village of Barnhouse, Maeshowe passage grave and surrounding monuments at Stenness, Orkney / edited by Colin Richards ; with contributions from Patrick Ashmore ... [et al.].
- Title
- Dwelling among the monuments : the Neolithic village of Barnhouse, Maeshowe passage grave and surrounding monuments at Stenness, Orkney / edited by Colin Richards ; with contributions from Patrick Ashmore ... [et al.].
- Publication
- Cambridge, U.K. : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Company [distributor], c2005.
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- Description
- xxii, 397 p. : ill., maps, plans; 29 cm.
- Summary
- "This volume provides an account of the lives of the inhabitants of the village of Barnhouse, a Late Neolithic settlement complex in Orkney. The excavation of Barnhouse between 1986 and 1993 in fact constitutes the largest investigation of a Neolithic settlement in northern Britain since Gordon Childe examined the nearby village of Skara Brae in the 1920s. It consequently provides an ideal opportunity to reconsider architectural representation, the social construction of identity, and social and ritual practices within a Late Neolithic community and beyond.
- The inhabitants of Barnhouse lived within one of the most spectacular monumental landscapes of the British Neolithic, and this volume also describes smaller-scale excavations at the nearby passage grave of Maeshowe and at the Stone of Odin. The results of these investigations provide the basis for an interpretative account of the habitation and construction of this monumental landscape over a five-hundred-year period of Orcadian prehistory (c. 3200-2700 B.C.)."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- McDonald Institute monographs, 1363-1349
- Uniform Title
- McDonald Institute monographs.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-397).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Investigations in Orkney ; The neolithic settlement of Orkney / Colin Richards -- Living in Barnhouse / Andrew Jones & Colin Richards -- The dwellings at Barnhouse / Jane Downes & Colin Richards -- The ceremonial house 2 / Colin Richards -- Structure 8 : monumentality at Barnhouse / Joffy Hill & Colin Richards -- The villagers of Barnhouse / Siân Jones & Colin Richards -- Beyond the village : Barnhouse Odin and the stones of Stenness / Adrian Challands, Mark Edmonds & Colin Richards -- The great passage grave of Maeshowe / Adrian Challands, Tom Muir & Colin Richards -- The anatomy of a megalithic landscape / Duncan Garrow, John Raven & Colin Richards -- The grooved ware from Barnhouse / Andrew Jones -- Organic residue analysis of grooved ware from Barnhouse / Andrew Jones, W.J. Cole & Richard E. Jones -- The Barnhouse lithic assemblage / Robert Middleton -- The stone tool assemblage ; The pumice from Barnhouse / Ann Clarke -- The charred plant remains from Barnhouse and Maeshowe / Pat Hinton -- The wood charcoal assemblage / Caroline R. Cartwright -- Barnhouse faunal remains / Sarah E. King -- Analysis of the soil deposits at Barnhouse and Maeshowe / Charles French -- An examination of the cramp from Barnhouse and Mouseland, Mainland, Orkney / C.P. Stapleton & S.G.E. Bowman -- Dating Barnhouse / Patrick Ashmore.
- ISBN
- 190293718X
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library