Burials and society in late Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age Ireland

This book 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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [S.l.] : ARCHAEOPRESS, 2021.
Edición:1ST ED.
Colección:Queen's University Belfast Irish Archaeological Monograph Ser.
Temas:
To 1500
Burial > Ireland > History > To 1500.
Copper age > Ireland.
Bronze age > Ireland.
Chalcolithique > Irlande.
Prehistoric archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Bronze age
Burial
Copper age
Ireland
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents Page
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Foreword and Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Aims and Objectives
  • Figure 1.1 Photo of a cist containing an inhumation and accompanied by a tripartite bowl from Church Bay, Rathlin, Co. Antrim (after Sloan 2008)
  • Figure 1.2 Photo of an inverted vase urn within a cist from Knockroe, Co. Tyrone (Williams and Wilkinson 1988)
  • Why study the social structure of the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age by an analysis of the single burial tradition?
  • Definitions
  • Social structure
  • The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age
  • The single burial tradition
  • The structure of the book
  • Anthropological approaches to the study of death and funerary ritual
  • The sociologists
  • Introduction
  • Figure 1.1 Photo of a cist containing an inhumation and accompanied by a tripartite bowl from Church Bay, Rathlin, Co. Antrim (after Sloan 2008)
  • Figure 1.2 Photo of an inverted vase urn within a cist from Knockroe, Co. Tyrone (Williams and Wilkinson 1988)
  • Chapter 2 Theoretical Approaches to the study of Death, Funerary Rituals and Social Structure
  • The functionalists
  • Structuralism
  • Modern anthropological studies of death ritual
  • Archaeological approaches to the study of death and funerary ritual
  • The 'New Archaeology' and its contribution to the study of death and funerary ritual
  • Critics of the 'New Archaeology' and their approach to the study of death and funerary ritual
  • The new synthesis
  • Modern approaches to the study of social structure
  • Ranked societies
  • Un-ranked or egalitarian societies
  • Stratified societies
  • Figure 2.1 Diagrammatic summary of the interrelationships of degree of ranking, access to the economic base and social evolutionary typology.
  • Conclusions
  • Figure 2.1 Diagrammatic summary of the interrelationships of degree of ranking, access to the economic base and social evolutionary typology.
  • Chapter 3 Ireland in the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age
  • Introduction
  • The archaeology of the Irish Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age
  • The Late Chalcolithic / Early Bronze Age environment
  • Into the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age
  • Ireland at the cusp of the Chalcolithic
  • Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age settlement
  • Non-funerary rituals of the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age in Ireland
  • Megalithic burial rituals of the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age in Ireland
  • Figure 3.1 Cloghnagalla, Co. Derry / Londonderry wedge tomb after Herring (1940).
  • Wedge tombs and Atlantic Europe
  • Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age metallurgy in Ireland
  • Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age metalwork
  • Daggers
  • Halberds
  • Gold in Early Bronze Age Ireland
  • Is there continuity between Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Ireland?
  • Lunulae
  • Provenance of Irish gold

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