H 297 x W 210 mm
342 pages
Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (73 plates in colour)
Published Aug 2018
ISBN
Paperback: 9781784919863
Digital: 9781784919870
Keywords
Burnt mounds; fulachtaí fia; fulacht fia; Bronze Age Ireland; pyrolithic technology; prehistoric cooking; hot-stones
By Alan Hawkes
This book details the archaeology of burnt mounds (fulachtaí fia) in Ireland, one of the most frequent and under researched prehistoric site types in the country. It presents a re-evaluation of the pyrolithic phenomenon in light of some 1000 excavated burnt mounds.
PREFACE ;
CHAPTER 1: BURNT MOUNDS: AN INTRODUCTION ;
CHAPTER 2: A HISTORY OF BURNT MOUND RESEARCH IN IRELAND ;
CHAPTER 3: PYROLITHIC TECHNOLOGY: THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT ;
CHAPTER 4: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF BURNT MOUNDS IN IRELAND ;
CHAPTER 5: CHRONOLOGY ;
CHAPTER 6: THE USE AND SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF BURNT MOUNDS ;
CHAPTER 7: SETTLEMENT CONTEXT ;
CHAPTER 8: CULTURAL CONTEXT: THE LONGUE DURÉE OF THE BURNT MOUND PHENOMENON ;
CHAPTER 9: RECONSIDERING THE BURNT MOUND PHENOMENON ;
BIBLIOGRAPHY ;
APPENDIX 1: Additional tables ;
APPENDIX 2: List of excavated burnt mounds in Ireland 1950−2010