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Landscapes of the living, landscapes of the dead : the location of chambered cairns of northern Scotland
- Title
- Landscapes of the living, landscapes of the dead : the location of chambered cairns of northern Scotland / Tim Phillips.
- Author
- Phillips, Tim.
- Publication
- Oxford : Archaeopress, 2002.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 360 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm.
- Series Statement
- BAR British series ; 328
- Uniform Title
- BAR British series ; 328.
- Subject
- Vor- und Frühgeschichte
- Vor- und Frühgeschichte
- Cairns > Scotland
- Cairns > Écosse
- 15.32 prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology
- Antiquities
- Cairns
- Grab
- Prehistorie
- Archeologie
- Gedenktekens
- Scotland > Antiquities
- Écosse > Antiquités
- Scotland
- Schottland > Nord
- Monuments; Burial evidence; Firthlands
- Archaeology
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-360).
- Contents
- Part 1 The background -- Monument morphology -- History of research -- Dating the Cairns -- The burial evidence -- Typology, seriation and chronology -- The landscape -- The environment -- Field methodology -- Part 2 The Firthlands -- Inverness-shire -- The Black Isle -- South Ross -- Easter Ross -- The Dornoch Firth -- Overview of the Firthlands Zone -- Part 3 The Straths -- Strath Fleet -- Lairg -- Strath Brora -- The Strath of Kildonan -- Kinbrace -- Dunbeath -- Loch Assynt -- North-West Sutherland -- Strathnaver -- Overview of the Straths Zone -- Part 4 Caithness -- Cnoc Freiceadain -- Beinn Freiceadain -- Sordale Hill -- North-East Caithness -- Loch Watten -- Yarrows -- Overview of the Caithness Zone -- Part 5 Analysis of the data -- Location -- Visibility -- Inter-visibility -- Orientations and alignments -- Alignment of Long Cairns -- Relationships with natural features -- Groups of monuments -- Part 6 Settlement -- Chambered Cairns and Settlement -- Find spots -- Brochs -- Orkney -- Fieldwalking -- The Black Isle Fieldwalking project -- Part 7 Conclusions -- Interpretations.
- ISBN
- 1841712914
- 9781841712918
- OCLC
- ocm49411295
- 49411295
- SCSB-1249002
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library