Set in stone : new approaches to Neolithic monuments in Scotland / edited by Vicki Cummings and Amelia Pannett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cummings, Vicki.

Pannett, Amelia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neolithic period--Scotland.

Neolithic period.

Scotland.

Scotland--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

117 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow, 2005.

Summary:

Any study of the Neolithic of Scotland inevitably includes discussion of its monuments, one of the most distinctive elements of the period. This collection of papers reflects on what we have learnt about the Neolithic monuments of Scotland through recent research and furthers debates which seek to improve our understanding of their architecture, function and meaning and, as highlighted here, their setting within the landscape.

The contributors to this volume present new approaches to particular sites or site types, drawing on existing data and presenting new research gained through fieldwork survey and excavation. Overall they promote a better understanding of the regional context of Neolithic monuments in Scotland and traditions of monumentality. Whilst some of the papers are highly descriptive and interpretative, many others are suggestive or speculative of the significance of the monuments and links between the living and the dead. In regarding the monuments of Scotland as places rather than discrete site types, the authors offer new insights into the chambered cairns, henges, stone circles and rock art of Orkney, western Lewis, southern Uist, Caithness and the Scottish mainland.

Contents:

1 Not my type: discourses in monumentality / Kenneth Brophy 1

2 Island views: the settings of the chambered cairns of southern Orkney / Vicki Cummings, Amelia Pannett 14

3 Ancestry, farming and the changing architecture of the Clyde cairns of south-west Scotland / Gordon Noble 25

4 The chambered cairns of South Uist / Vicki Cummings, Cole Henley, Niall Sharples 37

5 A view from within: monumental spaces in the Neolithic of Caithness / Amelia Pannett 55

6 The excavation of a chambered cairn at Leaval, South Uist / Vicki Cummings, Niall Sharples 63

7 Fishing for meaning: lived space and the early Neolithic of Orkney / Fraser Sturt 68

8 The 'henge' and 'hengiform' in Scotland / G. J. Barclay 81

9 Choreographed monumentality: recreating the centre of other worlds at the monument complex of Callanish, western Lewis / Cole Henley 95

10 Between a rock and a hard place: rock art and mimesis in Neolithic and Bronze Age Scotland / Andy Jones 107.

ISBN:

1842171437

OCLC:

56649269