Landscapes of Neolithic IrelandPsychology Press, 2000 - 276 pages Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland is the first volume to be devoted solely to the Irish Neolithic, using an innovative landscape and anthropological perspective to provide significant new insights on the period. |
Contents
1 Looking at the Irish Neolithic a landscape perspective | 1 |
2 Irish Neolithic landscapes | 20 |
3 Home is where the hearth is | 52 |
4 The dead are everywhere | 86 |
5 Monumental landscapes | 127 |
6 Living in a material world | 174 |
7 Local places big issues | 212 |
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activity ancestors Antrim appear artifacts Bradley Bronze Age Brú na Bóinne burial Cairn Carnbane Carrowkeel Carrowmore Céide Fields cereal ceremonial chamber circular cist construction context contrast Cooney court tombs created decorated deposits discussion domestic Dooey’s Cairn Early Neolithic enclosure entrance Eogan Eogan and Roche evidence example excavation Figure foci focus Fourknocks Grogan Grooved Ware henges Herity Hill important interpretation Ireland Ireland and Britain Irish Neolithic Knockadoon Knowth land Late Neolithic lithic living looking Lough Gur Loughcrew material culture Meath megalithic tombs Mesolithic metres Middle Neolithic monuments mortuary mound Neolithic landscapes Newgrange northeast Ó Nualláin O’Kelly O’Sullivan occur passage tomb tradition passage tombs pattern Phase pits places pollen porcellanite portal tombs pottery range rectangular houses regional ridge ritual role seems seen settlement Sheridan social sources southwest standing stones stone axeheads stone axes structures suggested symbolic tion tomb complexes walls wedge tombs wider