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Ancient lives : object, people and place in early Scotland : essays for David V Clarke on his 70th birthday /
"Ancient Lives provides new perspectives on object, people and place in early Scotland and beyond. The 19 papers cover topics ranging from the Neolithic to the Medieval period, and from modern museum practice to ancient craft skills. The material culture of ancient lives is centre stage - how i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Sidestone Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; Introduction: 'If I can put it like that ... '; Alison Sheridan and Fraser Hunter; Section 1; Presenting the past; Museums and their collections; Mark Jones; Presenting someone else's past: the Caithness Broch Centre; Andrew Heald; Reading Govan Old: interpretative challenges and aspirations; Stephen T Driscoll; Section 2; Ancient lives and multiple lives; Robert Innes Shearer: a lost antiquary from Caithness; Stratford Halliday; 'Thanks to you the best has been made of a bad job': Vere Gordon Childe and the Bronze Age cairn at Ri Cruin, Kilmartin, Argyll & Bute; Alan Saville.
- Evidence and artefact: utility for protohistory and archaeology in Thomas the Rhymer legendsHugh Cheape; Expiscation! Disentangling the later biography of the St Andrews Sarcophagus; Sally M Foster; Section 3; Pieces of the past; Scottish Neolithic pottery in 2016: the big picture and some details of the narrative; Alison Sheridan; The earlier prehistoric collections from the Culbin Sands, northern Scotland: the construction of a narrative; Richard Bradley, Aaron Watson and Ronnie Scott; The provision of amulets and heirlooms in Early Bronze Age children's burials in Scotland; Dawn McLaren.
- On the edge: Roman law on the frontierDavid J Breeze; The Colour Purple: lithomarge artefacts in northern Britain; Martin Goldberg; 'Coal money' from Portpatrick (south-west Scotland): reconstructing an Early Medieval craft centre from antiquarian finds; Fraser Hunter; Silver handpins from the West Country to Scotland: perplexing portable antiquities; Susan Youngs; Gleaming eyes and the elaboration of Anglo-Saxon sculpture; Alice Blackwell; Combs and comb production in the Western Isles during the Norse period; Niall Sharples and Ian Dennis.
- Playing the dark side: a look at some chess and other playing pieces of jet and jet-like materials from BritainMark A Hall; Blank Page; Blank Page.