Excavations at Cill Donnain : a Bronze Age settlement and Iron Age wheelhouse in South Uist /

"The SEARCH (Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides) project began in 1987 and covers the Scotland's Outer Hebrides. The aim of the project is to investigate how human societies adapted in the long-term to the isolated environment of the Outer Hebrides...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Parker Pearson, Michael, 1957- (Autor), Zvelebil, Marek (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2014.
Edición:Digital edition.
Colección:Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides ; volume 9
Temas:
Excavations (Archaeology) > Scotland > South Uist.
Bronze age > Scotland > South Uist.
Iron age > Scotland > South Uist.
Human settlements > Scotland > South Uist.
Dwellings > Scotland > South Uist.
Material culture > Scotland > South Uist.
Human ecology > Scotland > South Uist.
Social archaeology > Scotland > South Uist.
Economics, Prehistoric > Scotland > South Uist.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Écosse > South Uist.
Établissements humains > Écosse > South Uist.
Habitations > Écosse > South Uist.
Culture matérielle > Écosse > South Uist.
Écologie humaine > Écosse > South Uist.
Archéologie sociale > Écosse > South Uist.
Économie préhistorique > Écosse > South Uist.
Antiquities
Bronze age
Dwellings
Economics, Prehistoric
Excavations (Archaeology)
Human ecology
Human settlements
Iron age
Material culture
Social archaeology
South Uist (Scotland) > Antiquities.
Scotland > South Uist
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Mike Parker Pearson and Helen Smith
  • The excavations / Marek Zvelebil and Mike Parker Pearson
  • Early-Middle Bronze Age (phase 1) : a Cordoned Urn settlement / Mike Parker Pearson with Kate MacDonald
  • Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age occupation (phase 2) : eighth-early sixth centuries BC / Mike Parker Pearson
  • Before construction of the wheelhouse (phase 3) / Mike Parker Pearson
  • Construction and initial use of the wheelhouse (phases 4 and 5) / Mike Parker Pearson and Marek Zvelebil
  • Modification and abandonment of the wheelhouse (phases 6-8) / Mike Parker Pearson and Marek Zvelebil
  • The midden overlying the wheelhouse (phase 9) / Mike Parker Pearson
  • The pottery / Chris Cumberpatch
  • The metal finds and industrial debris
  • The stone tools / Mike Parker Pearson
  • Bone, ivory and antler tools and ornaments / Mike Parker Pearson, with species identification by John Hamshaw-Thomas and Kim Vickers
  • The faunal remains / Kim Vickers with Saleem ul Haq and John Hamshaw-Thomas
  • The carbonised plant remains / Pam Grinter and Soultana-Maria Valamoti
  • Marine mollusca / Sean Bell and Karen Godden
  • Radiocarbon dating / Peter Marshall and Gordon Cook
  • Conclusion: Cill Donnain's prehistoric landscape
  • Appendix: Context list and phasing for the 1989, 1990 and 1991 excavations at Cill Donnain III.

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