Life On The Edge The Neolithic And Bronze Age Of Iain Crawfords Udal North Uist

Author : Beverley Ballin Smith
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784917710
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life on the Edge: The Neolithic and Bronze Age of Iain Crawford’s Udal, North Uist written by Beverley Ballin Smith and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavations in North Uist dating from 1974-1984 identified two cists with human remains in kerbed cairns, many bowl pits dug into the blown sand, two late Neolithic structures and a ritual complex.

Author : Beverley Ballin Smith
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9781784917708
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life on the Edge written by Beverley Ballin Smith and published by Archaeopress Archaeology. This book was released on 2018 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavations in North Uist dating from 1974-1984 identified two cists with human remains in kerbed cairns, many bowl pits dug into the blown sand, two late Neolithic structures and a ritual complex.

Author : Dale Serjeantson
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789259584
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Wild Birds in Britain and Ireland written by Dale Serjeantson and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archaeology of Wild Birds in Britain and Ireland tells the story of human engagement with birds from the end of the last Ice Age to about AD 1650. It is based on archaeological bird remains integrated with ethnography and the history of birds and avian biology. In addition to their food value, the book examines birds in ritual activities and their capture and role in falconry and as companion animals. It is an essential guide for archaeologists and zooarchaeologists and will interest historians and naturalists concerned with the history and former distribution of birds.

Author : Niall Sharples
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789250498
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides written by Niall Sharples and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The settlement at Bornais in the Western Isles of Scotland is one of the largest rural settlements known from the Norse period in Britain. It spans the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century AD when the Atlantic seaboard was subject to drastic changes. The islands were systematically ravaged by Viking raiders and then colonised by Norse settlers. In the following centuries the islanders were central to the emergence of the Kingdom of Man and the Isles, played a crucial role in the development of the Lordship of the Isles and were finally assimilated into the Kingdom of Scotland. This volume explores the stratigraphic sequence uncovered by the excavation of Bornais mounds 2 and 2A. The excavation of mound 2 revealed a sequence of high status buildings that span the Norse occupation of the settlement. One of these houses, constructed at the end of the eleventh century AD, was a well preserved bow-walled longhouse and the careful excavation and detailed recording of the floor layers has revealed a wealth of finds that provides invaluable insight into the activities taking place in this building. The final house in this sequence is very different in form and use, and clearly indicates the increasing Scottish influence on the region at the beginning of the thirteenth century. The excavation of mound 2A provides an insight into the less prestigious areas of the settlement and contributes a significant amount of evidence on the settlement economy. The area was initially cultivated before it became a settlement local and throughout its life a focus on agricultural activities, such as grain drying and processing, appears to have been important. In the thirteenth century the mound was occupied by a craftsman who produced composite combs, gaming pieces and simple tools. The evidence presented in this volume makes a major contribution to the understanding of Norse Scotland and the colonisation of the North Atlantic in a period of dramatic transformations.

Author : Torben Bjarke Ballin
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789698707
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classification of Lithic Artefacts from the British Late Glacial and Holocene Periods written by Torben Bjarke Ballin and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a system for the hierarchical classification of British lithic artefacts from the Late Glacial and Holocene periods, and it is hoped that it may find use as a guide book for, for example, archaeology students, museum staff, non-specialist archaeologists, local archaeology groups and lay enthusiasts.

Author : Mike Copper
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revisiting Grooved Ware written by Mike Copper and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following its appearance, arguably in Orkney in the 32nd century cal BC, Grooved Ware soon became widespread across Britain and Ireland, seemingly replacing earlier pottery styles and being deposited in contexts as varied as simple pits, passage tombs, ceremonial timber circles and henge monuments. As a result, Grooved Ware lies at the heart of many ongoing debates concerning social and economic developments at the end of the 4th and during the first half of the 3rd millennia cal BC. Stemming from the 2022 Neolithic Studies Group autumn conference, and following on from Cleal and MacSween’s 1999 NSG volume on Grooved Ware, this book presents a series of papers from researchers specializing in Grooved Ware pottery and the British and Irish Neolithic, offering both regional and thematic perspectives on this important ceramic tradition. Chapters cover the development of Grooved Ware in Orkney as well as the timing and nature of its appearance, development, and subsequent demise in different regions of Britain and Ireland. In addition, thematic papers consider what Grooved Ware can contribute to understandings of inter-regional interactions during the earlier 3rd millennium cal BC, the possible meaning of Grooved Ware’s decorative motifs, and the thorny issue of the validity and significance of the various Grooved Ware sub-styles. The book will be of great value not only to archaeologists and students with a specific interest in Grooved Ware pottery but also to those with a more general interest in the development of the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland.

Author : Chris L. Stewart-Moffitt
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803271272
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Circular Archetype in Microcosm: The Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland written by Chris L. Stewart-Moffitt and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is the culmination of seven years research into the Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland. It is the first study of these enigmatic artefacts since that undertaken by Dorothy Marshall in 1977 and includes all currently known examples in both museums and private hands, described and analysed in considerable detail.

Author : Geraint Coles
Publisher : Symposia of the Association fo
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life on the Edge written by Geraint Coles and published by Symposia of the Association fo. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history some areas have been less attractive for living and farming than others. These areas are identified as marginal because of environmental, economic or socio-political factors. How can we recognise marginality in the archaeological record? How particularly can environmental remains be interpreted? And how can we interpret human strategies when faced with a marginal environment? Most of the papers in this volume focus on Scottish contexts, reflecting their origins at the 1992 meeting of the Association for Environmental Archaeology in Edinburgh. However Greek pastoralism and the problems of food supply in the Egyptian and Syrian deserts are also examined.

Author : Alex Davies
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781407316062
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Society and Constructing the Past written by Alex Davies and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bookgives a new account of society and social change in the upper and middle ThamesValley from the Late Bronze Age to Middle Iron Age, 1150-100 BC. A model isdeveloped from social anthropological case studies setting out expectations onhow societies are structured based on certain material manifestations. Patternsare found within the wide range of types of evidence that are integrated andsynthesised. This includes settlements, house forms, metalwork, pottery, humanand animal remains, monuments, landscape boundaries and special deposits. The maininterpretation offered is that Late Bronze Age societies were fluid andunstructured by either social status differences or lineage identities, whereasEarly Iron Age communities were more concerned with ancestral genealogy andinter-generational inheritance. By the Middle Iron Age, communal aspects ofritual practice and material practice were largely replaced by local andhousehold concerns in which smaller groups displayed increasing autonomy fromeach other.

Author : A. E. Brown
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784919799
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Pottery Manufacturing Site in Highgate Wood: Excavations 1966-78 written by A. E. Brown and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavations at Highgate Wood, London, over a period of eight years uncovered at least ten pottery kilns, waster heaps, ditches and pits, but only a few definite structures. This volume provides a very detailed analysis of the forms and fabrics of the pottery finds.