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Defining a regional Neolithic : the evidence from Britain and Ireland / edited by Kenneth Brophy and Gordon Barclay.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; 9.
- Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neolithic period--Great Britain--Congresses.
- Neolithic period.
- Neolithic period--Ireland--Congresses.
- Stone age--Great Britain--Congresses.
- Stone age.
- Stone age--Ireland--Congresses.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Great Britain--Congresses.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Ireland--Congresses.
- Great Britain--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Great Britain.
- Ireland--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Ireland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxbow Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is the ninth published collection of papers from a Neolithic Studies Group day conference, and it continues the Group's aim of presenting research on the Neolithic of all parts of the British Isles. The topic - regional diversity - is an important theme in Neolithic studies today, and embraces traditions of monumentality, settlement patterns and material culture. The contributors to this volume address issues of regionality through a series of case-studies that focus not on the traditional 'cores' of Wessex and Orkney, but rather on other areas - the 'Irish Sea Zone', Ireland, Scotla
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Foreword; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Section 1: Defining regional Neolithics; Chapter 1: Introduction: a regional agenda?; Chapter 2: The map trap: the depiction of regional geographies of the Neolithic; Section 2: Material culture; Chapter 3: Corn grinding in southern England: what can the querns tell us?; Chapter 4: From ritual to riches - the route to individual power in later Neolithic Eastern Yorkshire; Section 3: Regional and local studies
- Chapter 5: Building monuments at the centre of the world: exploring regional diversity in south-west Wales and south-west ScotlandChapter 6: On the edge of England: Cumbria as a Neolithic region; Chapter 7: No-man's land revisited: some patterns in the Neolithic of Cumbria; Chapter 8: Core or periphery? The case of the Neolithic of the East Midlands; Chapter 9: The role of islands in defining identity and regionality during the Neolithic: the Dublin coastal group; Chapter 10: Coasts, mountains, rivers and bogs. Using the landscape to explore regionality in Neolithic Ireland
- Notes:
- Papers originally presented at a meeting of the Neolithic Studies Group.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78297-294-3
- 1-78297-292-7
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