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From Bann Flakes to Bushmills : papers in honour of professor Peter Woodman /

Dedicated to Peter Woodman in celebration of his contribution to archaeology, providing a glimpse of the many ways in which he has touched the lives of so many, this book covers many aspects of predominantly Mesolithic archaeology in Ireland, mainland Britain and North-west Europe, reflecting the ra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Woodman, Peter C., Finlay, N. (Nyree) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2009.
Colección:Prehistoric Society research paper ; no. 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Artefacts and antiquarians
  • 1. Tinkering with Torcs: an unusual Bronze Age hoard from Kilsallagh, Co. Longford / Mary Cahill
  • 2. Craft specialisation in the Mesolithic of Northern Britain: the evidence from the coarse stone tools / Ann Clarke
  • 3. Futile fragments?
  • some thoughts on microlith breakage patterns / Nyree Finlay
  • 4. Prehistoric chain reactions
  • stories that help us understand the distant past / Thomas Kador
  • 5. The South Munster Antiquarian Society, revisited / Joan E. Rockley
  • 6. Speculating on the significance of an axehead and a bead from Luce Sands, Dumfries & Galloway, South-West Scotland / Alan Saville
  • pt. 2. Fieldwork
  • 7. Prehistoric reindeer trapping by stone-walled pitfalls: news and views / Sveinung Bang-Andersen
  • 8. A Mesolithic site at Kilmore, near Oban, Western Scotland / Clive Bonsall, Robert Payton, Mark G. Macklin and Graham A. Ritchie
  • 9. Star Carr in the new millennium / Chantal Conneller, Nicky Milner, Tim Schadla-Hall and Barry Taylor
  • 10. Middle and Late Bronze Age ritual activity at Glencurran Cave, Co. Clare / Marion A. Dowd
  • 11. Constructing Later Mesolithic landscapes / Killian Driscoll
  • 12. Palynology 'on the edge' and the archaeological vindication of a Mesolithic presence? The case of Shetland / Kevin J. Edwards, J. Edward Schofield, Graeme Whittington and Nigel D. Melton
  • 13. Zvejnieki - past, present and future. A Mesolithic-Neolithic settlement and cemetery site in Northern Latvia / Lars Larsson
  • 14. The island and the hill. Extracting scales of sociability from a Mesolithic chert quarry / Aimée Little
  • 15. Belderrig: a 'new' Later Mesolithic and Neolithic landscape in Northwest Ireland / Graeme Warren
  • 16. Footsteps in the North - archaeological understanding and the settling of Northern Scotland and the islands Caroline Wickham-Jones
  • Pt. 3. People and animals
  • 17. Late Mesolithic or early Neolithic burials? Examining the 'Tauber line' / Erik Brinch Petersen and Christopher Meiklejohn
  • 18. The 'complex hunter-gatherer' and the transition to framing / Bill Finlayson
  • 19. O analysis of Littorina littorea shells from Ferriter's Cove, Dingle Peninsula: preliminary results and interpretations / Michael J. Kimball, William Showers, Sinéad McCartan and Bernard J. Genna
  • 20. Early domestic cattle in Southern Scandinavia and the spread of the Neolithic in Europe / t. Douglas Price and Nanna Noe-Nygaard
  • 21. Irelands mammals: an annotated list / Paddy Sleeman and Derek yalden.