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Regional perspectives on Neolithic pit deposition : beyond the mundane /
The rise to prominence of pits within narratives of the British and Irish Neolithic is well-documented in recent literature. Pits have been cropping up in excavations for centuries, resulting in a very broad spectrum of interpretations but three main factors have led to the recent change in our perc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxbow Books,
2012.
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| Colección: | Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Foreword by Kenneth Brophy and Timothy Darvill; Preface and acknowledgements; List of contributors; 1. Introduction: beyond the mundane?; 2. Breaking ground: an overview of pits and pit-digging in Neolithic Ireland; 3. Sounds from the underground: Neolithic ritual pits and pit-clusterson the Isle of Man and beyond; 4. Deposition on a Neolithic settlement site at Green, Isle of Eday, Orkney; 5. Big pit, little pit, big pit, little pit...: pit practices in Western Scotlandin the 4th millennium BC; 6. Within and beyond pits: deposition in lowland Neolithic Scotland
- 7. Social structures: pits and depositional practice in Neolithic Northumberland8. Preservation and the pit problem: some examplesfrom the Middle Trent Valley; 9. Social fabrics: people and pots at Earlier Neolithic Kilverstone, Norfolk; 10. Pits, pots and plant remains: trends in Neolithic depositionin Carmarthenshire, South Wales; 11. Place, presencing and pits in the Neolithic of the Severn-Wye region; 12. Totemism and food taboos in the Early Neolithic: a feast of roe deerat the Coneybury 'Anomaly', Wiltshire, Southern Britain
- 13. Neolithic to early Bronze Age pit deposition practicesand the temporality of occupation in the Thames Valley14. Domesticity in the Neolithic: excavations at Kingsmead Quarry,Horton, Berkshire; 15. Concluding discussion: pits and perspective