The Southern Kintyre Project : exploring interactions across the Irish Sea from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age / edited by Vicki Cummings, Gary Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Gary G., author.

Contributor:

Cummings, Vicki, editor.

Series:

BAR British series ; 618.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Scotland--Kintyre.

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Scotland--Kintyre.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Northern Ireland.

Culture diffusion--Scotland--Kintyre.

Culture diffusion.

Culture diffusion--Northern Ireland.

Neolithic period--Scotland--Kintyre.

Neolithic period.

Neolithic period--Northern Ireland.

Kintyre (Scotland)--Antiquities.

Kintyre (Scotland).

Antiquities.

Northern Ireland.

Scotland--Kintyre.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps, plans.

Other Title:

British Archaeological Reports.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2016.

Contents:

Social interactions in prehistory and the Southern Kintyre Project / Vicki Cummings and Gary Robinson

Background : introducing Kintyre / Gary Robinson

Archaeology in the mythic landscape / Angus Martin

Results of the fieldwalking / Vicki Cummings

Lithic assemblages from southern Kintyre : other collections and investigating origins / Vicki Cummings and Seosaimhim Bradley

Results of the field surveys at Blasthill, Macharioch and Marchfield, Stewarton / Vicki Cummings, Chris Green and Gary Robinson

The results of the excavations of a Mesolithic scatter and associated structure at Macharioch Farm / Vicki Cummings and Gary Robinson

The results of the excavations at Blasthill chambered tomb / Vicki Cummings and Gary Robinson

The results of Jack Scott's excavations at Ardnacross II chambered tomb and later associated structures, near Peninver, Kintyre / Vicki Cummings

The biography of early Neolithic pottery assemblages from chambered tombs in western Scotland and eastern Ireland / Emma Thompson, Vicki Cummings and Rick Peterson

Kintyre in a broader context : discussion and conclusions / Vicki Cummings and Gary Robinson

Appendix 1. The pottery from the Blasthill chambered tomb / Emma Thompson and Rick Peterson

Appendix 2. A note on the petrology of the prehistoric pottery from Blasthill chambered tomb, southern Kintyre / David Williams

Appendix 3. The analysis of organic residues from the Blasthill pottery by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry / Ben Stern

Appendix 4. The quartz assemblage from Blasthill chambered tomb / Hugo Anderson-Whymark

Appendix 5. The flint and stone assemblages from Blasthill chambered tomb / Vicki Cummings

Appendix 6. The carbonised plant macrofossils and charcoal from Blasthill chambered tomb / Diane Aldritt

Appendix 7. The micromorphological examination of forecourt deposits from Blasthill chambered tomb / Clare Wilson

Appendix 8. The Blasthill chambered tomb human remains / Michael Wysocki

Appendix 1. Irish Sea chambered tomb pottery fabric families / Emma Thompson

Appendix 10. The flint, quartz and stone assemblage from Ardnacross II chambered tomb / Vicki Cummings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781407323022

1407323024

9781407313948

1407313940

OCLC:

1198079669

Publisher Number:

B618 BAR Publishing