The neolithic of mainland Scotland / edited by Kenneth Brophy, Ian Ralston, Gavin MacGregor.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 322 pages) : illustrations, maps.

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What was life like in Scotland between 4000 and 2000 BC? Where were people living? How did they treat their dead? Why did they spend so much time building extravagant ritual monuments? What was special about the relationship people had with trees and why was so much time and effort spent digging holes and filling them back up again? This collection examines what we can say about how people lived in the Neolithic and early Bronze Age of mainland Scotland where much of the evidence we have lies in the plough-zone, or survives as slumped banks and filled ditches, or simply appears as ruinous megaliths. It draws together leading experts and young researchers to present fresh research and outlines radical new interpretations of the pits, postholes, ditches, rubbish dumps, human remains and broken potsherds left behind by our Neolithic forebears. Much of this evidence has come to light as a result of rescue or developer-led fieldwork in the past few decades, putting the emphasis very much on lowland, mainland Scotland as opposed to high-profile Orcadian Neolithic sites.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
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Print version record.
ISBN
  • 9780748685745 ((electronic bk.))
  • 074868574X ((electronic bk.))
  • 9780748685752 ((ePub ebook))
  • 0748685758 ((ePub ebook))
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