Ritual in Late Bronze Age Ireland : material culture, practices, landscape setting and social context /
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This text develops a new perspective on Late Bronze Age (LBA) Ireland by identifying and analysing patterns of ritual practice in the archaeological record. The bookends of this study are the introduction and proliferation of iron technology beginning around 600 BC. Therefore, it is societal change related to new technology which defines the period discussed as the Irish Late Bronze Age (LBA) herein.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784912215 (PDF ebook) :
The archaeology of prehistoric burnt mounds in Ireland /
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This work 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.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (viii, 328 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784919870 (ebook) :
Burials and society in late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Ireland /
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This text describes and analyses the increasing complexity of later Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age burial in Ireland, using burial complexity as a proxy for increasing social complexity, and as a tool for examining social structure.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789696325 (PDF ebook) :