The circular archetype in microcosm : the carved stone balls of late Neolithic Scotland /
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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.
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Also issued in print: 2022.
"This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License"--Title page verso.
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1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) :
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Roots of nationhood : the archaeology and history of Scotland /
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12 papers from specialists covering a wide array of time periods and subject areas, this volume explores the links between identity and nationhood throughout the history of Scotland from the prehistory of northern Britain to the more recent heralding of Scottish identity as a multi-ethnic construction and the possibility of Scottish independence.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (ii, 210 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784919832 (ebook) :
Art and architecture in Neolithic Orkney : process, temporality and context /
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This text offers a groundbreaking analysis of Neolithic art and architecture in Orkney, focusing upon the incredible collection of hundreds of decorated stones being revealed by the current excavations at the Ness of Brodgar.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784914349 (ebook) :
Pits and boots : excavation of medieval and post-medieval backlands under the Bon Accord Centre, Aberdeen /
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Excavations in 2007-8, ahead of an extension to the Bon Accord Centre in Aberdeen, uncovered backlands that would have formed part of the industrial quarter of the medieval town. The excavation charts the changing nature of the area, from an industrial zone in the medieval period, to horticultural and domestic spaces in post-medieval times.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage.
"This publication is made available in Open Access through funding by AOC Archaeology Group"--Title page verso. :
1 online resource (xii, 352 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789694888 (PDF ebook) : :
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The evolution of Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes : from Danubian longhouses to the stone rows of Dartmoor and Northern Scotland /
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At the heart of this book is a comparative study of the stone rows of Dartmoor and northern Scotland, a rare, putatively Bronze Age megalithic typology that has mystified archaeologists for over a century. It is argued that these are 'symbols' of Neolithic long mounds, a circumstance that accounts for the interregional similarities; other aspects of their semantic structures are also analysed using rigorous semiotic theory. The research presented here takes an evolutionary approach, drawing on biological theory to explain the active role of these monuments in social evolution and to investigate the processes at work in the development of prehistoric landscapes.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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Life on the edge : the Neolithic and Bronze Age of Iain Crawford's Udal, North Uist /
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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.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xxxii, 270 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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9781784917715 (ebook) :
White Castle : the evaluation of an upstanding prehistoric enclosure in East Lothian /
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This publication describes the results of a four-year research programme of archaeological works (2010-2013), at the later prehistoric enclosure of White Castle, East Lothian. The excavations demonstrated a clear sequence of enclosure development over time, whereby the design and visual impact often appeared to be more important than defence alone.
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1 online resource (iii, 99 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
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Playing with things : the archaeology, anthropology and ethnography of human-object interactions in Atlantic Scotland /
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Represents a reappraisal of the relationship between play - an activity which is most often understood in terms of something 'set apart' - and everyday life. Via a series of archaeological, anthropological and ethnographic investigations, it leads towards the conclusion that play is not in fact so separate as is often assumed.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (vi, 150 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789690767 (ebook) :
Reindeer hunters at Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire : a late Hamburgian settlement in Southern Scotland - its lithic artefacts and natural environment /
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This volume presents the lithic assemblage from Howburn in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, which at present is the oldest prehistoric settlement in Scotland (12,700-12,000 BC), and the only Hamburgian settlement in Britain. The site also included a scatter from the Late Upper Palaeolithic Federmesser-Gruppen period (12,000-10,800 BC), as well as lithics from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. The text focuses on the Hamburgian finds, which are mainly based on the exploitation of flint from Doggerland, the then dry bed of the North Sea.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xx, 124 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784919023 (ebook) :
Early medieval settlement in upland Perthshire : excavations at Lair, Glen Shee 2012-17 /
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Archaeological evidence for settlement and land use in early medieval Scottish upland landscapes remains largely undiscovered. This study records only the second excavation of one important and distinctive house form, the Pitcarmicktype building, in the hills of north-east Perth and Kinross. Excavation of seven turf buildings at Lair in Glen Shee has confirmed the introduction of Pitcarmick buildings in the early 7th century AD. Clusters of these at Lair, and elsewhere in the hills, are interpreted as integrated, spatially organised farm complexes comprising byre-houses and outbuildings.
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1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789693164 (PDF ebook) :
The afterlives of Egyptian history : reuse and reformulation of objects, places, and texts : a volume in honor of Edward L. Bleiberg /
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"Egypt has a particular longue durée, a continuity of preservation in deep time, not seen in other parts of the world. Over the centuries, ancient buildings have been adopted for purposes that differed from the original. Temple sites have been transformed into places of worship for new deities or turned into houses and tombs. Tombs, in turn, have been adapted to function as human dwellings already in the Late Antique Period. The Afterlives of Egyptian History expands on the traditional academic approach of studying the original function and socio-political circumstances of ancient Egyptian objects, texts, and sites to examine their secondary lives by exploring their reuse, modification, and reinterpretation. Written in honor of the Egyptologist, Edward Bleiberg, this volume brings together a group of luminous scholars from a wide range of fields, including Egyptian archaeology, philology, conservation, and art, to explore the historical circumstances, as well as political and economic situations of people who have come into contact with ancient Egypt, both in antiquity and in more recent times"--
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9781617979927
Classification of lithic artefacts from the British Late Glacial and Holocene periods /
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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.
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"The eBook edition of this publication is available in Open Access, supported by Historic Environment Scotland."--Homepage. :
1 online resource (viii, 87 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Bar locks and early church security in the British Isles /
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This volume examines the evidence for the measures taken to make church buildings secure or defensible from their earliest times until the later medieval period. In particular it examines the phenomenon of 'bar locks' which the author identifies in many different contexts throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
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1 online resource (xviii, 144 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Forces of transformation : the end of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean : proceedings of an international symposium held at St. John's College, University of Oxford 25-6th March,...
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OCLC 244653638 :
viii, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm. :
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Colonial geopolitics and local cultures in the Hellenistic and Roman East (3rd century BC - 3rd century AD) = Géopolitique coloniale et cultures locales dans l'Orient hellénistique...
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What changes in the material culture can we observe, when a state is overwhelming a local population with soldiers, katoikoi, and civil officials or merchants? What were the mutual influences between native and colonial cultures? This collection addresses these questions and many more, focusing on the Hellenistic and Roman East.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
"proceedings of a panel held during the Celtic Conference in Classics 2014 ... [and] a number of papers given previously ... under the aegis of the Symposium international le livre, la Roumanie, L'Europe2--Introduction. :
1 online resource (v, 218 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) :
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Prehistoric pottery : people, pattern and purpose /
: Proceedings of a conference organized by the Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group in conjunction with the Ceramics Petrology Group, held at the University of Bradford, Oct. 2002. : xii, 226 pages : illustration, maps ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 1841715263