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Between the Wind and the Water : Between the Wind and the Water.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wickham-Jones, Caroline.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World Heritage areas.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Orkney (Scotland).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Havertown : Windgather Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- The Archaeological sites of Orkney give us an unparalleled glimpse into prehistory. Inscribed as the 'Heart of Neolithic Orkney' World Heritage Site in 1999, four great monuments - the village of Skara Brae, the Ring of Brodgar, the Stones of Stenness and the burial mound of Maeshowe - are also at the centre of the archipelago's story. This book looks at what makes these monuments so special. Caroline Wickham-Jones explores the Neolithic world in which they were built, how they caome to be a focus through the ages, and what they mean today. Picts, saints, Vikings, antiquarians and tourists populate Orkney's past: a history which is channelled through these 'dances of stones'.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- The Story
- The Visit
- 1. Orkney and its World Heritage
- 2. The People Before: Mesolithic Orkney
- 3. The Arrival of Change: The Early Neolithic
- 4. Skara Brae: Settling Down and Taming the Land in the Late Neolithic
- 5. Death, Burial and the Other World in the Late Neolithic
- 6. Ceremony: The Brodgar Peninsula - Dances of Stones
- 7. The Wider World of the Neolithic
- 8. The People After: The Bronze Age and the Iron Age
- 9. Trade and Temptation: The Picts, the Norse, and the Coming of Christianity
- 10. Farmland, Famine and Visitors: Historic Orkney into the Twentieth Century
- 11. Antiquarians and Archaeologists
- 12. World Heritage Status: The Ultimate Accolade?
- 13. Moving On
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wickham-Jones, Caroline Between the Wind and the Water
- ISBN:
- 9781909686519
- 1909686514
- 9781909686533
- 1909686530
- OCLC:
- 1334890724
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