The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney write by Colin Richards. This book was released on 2016-04-30. The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Considering that Orkney is a group of relatively small islands lying off the northeast coast of the Scottish mainland, its wealth of Neolithic archaeology is truly extraordinary. An assortment of houses, chambered cairns, stone circles, standing stones and passage graves provides an unusually comprehensive range of archaeological and architectural contexts. Yet, in the early 1990s, there was a noticeable imbalance between 4th and 3rd millennium cal BC evidence, with house structures, and ‘villages’ being well represented in the latter but minimally in the former. As elsewhere in the British Isles, the archaeological visibility of the 4th millennium cal BC in Orkney tends to be dominated by the monumental presence of chambered cairns or tombs. In the 1970s Claude Lévi-Strauss conceived of a form of social organization based upon the ‘house’ – sociétés à maisons – in order to provide a classification for social groups that appeared not to conform to established anthropological kinship structures. In this approach, the anchor point is the ‘house’, understood as a conceptual resource that is a consequence of a strategy of constructing and legitimizing identities under ever shifting social conditions. Drawing on the results of an extensive program of fieldwork in the Bay of Firth, Mainland Orkney, the text explores the idea that the physical appearance of the house is a potent resource for materializing the dichotomous alliance and descent principles apparent in the archaeological evidence for the early and later Neolithic of Orkney. It argues that some of the insights made by Lévi-Strauss in his basic formulation of sociétés à maisons are extremely relevant to interpreting the archaeological evidence and providing the parameters for a ‘social’ narrative of the material changes occurring in Orkney between the 4th and 2nd millennia cal BC. The major excavations undertaken during the Cuween-Wideford Landscape Project provided an unprecedented depth and variety of evidence for Neolithic occupation, bridging the gap between domestic and ceremonial architecture and form, exploring the transition from wood to stone and relationships between the living and the dead and the role of material culture. The results are described and discussed in detail here, enabling tracing of the development and fragmentation of sociétés à maisons over a 1500 year period of Northern Isles prehistory.
The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney
The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney write by Colin Richards. This book was released on 2016. The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New, comprehensive discussion of Orknian Neolithic society based on major series of excavations of domestic sites
Art and Architecture in Neolithic Orkney
Art and Architecture in Neolithic Orkney - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art and Architecture in Neolithic Orkney write by Antonia Thomas. This book was released on 2016-09-26. Art and Architecture in Neolithic Orkney available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a groundbreaking analysis of Neolithic art and architecture in Orkney, focussing upon the incredible collection of hundreds of decorated stones being revealed by the current excavations at the Ness of Brodgar.
Assembling Past Worlds
Assembling Past Worlds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Assembling Past Worlds write by Oliver J.T. Harris. This book was released on 2021-06-08. Assembling Past Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Assembling Past Worlds draws on new materialism and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to explore the potential for a posthumanist archaeology. Through specific empirical study, this book provides a detailed analysis of Neolithic Britain, a critical moment in the emergence of new ways of living, as well as new relationships between materials, people and new forms of architecture. It achieves two things. First, it identifies the major challenges that archaeology faces in the light of current theoretical shifts. New ideas place new demands on how we write and think about the past, sometimes in ways that can seem contradictory. This volume identifies seven major challenges that have emerged and sets out why they matter, why archaeology needs to engage with them and how they can be dealt with through an innovative theoretical approach. Second, it explores how this approach meets these challenges through an in-depth study of Neolithic Britain. It provides an insightful diagnosis of the issues posed by current archaeological thought and is the first volume to apply the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to the extended analysis of a single period. Assembling Past Worlds shows how new approaches are transforming our understandings of past worlds and, in so doing, how we can meet the challenges facing archaeology today. It will be of interest to both students and researchers in archaeological theory and the Neolithic of Europe.
The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland
The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland write by Vicki Cummings. This book was released on 2017-05-18. The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland provides a synthesis of this dynamic period of prehistory from the end of the Mesolithic through to the early Beaker period. Drawing on new excavations and the application of new scientific approaches to data from this period, this book considers both life and death in the Neolithic. It offers a clear and concise introduction to this period but with an emphasis on the wider and on-going research questions. It is an important text for students new to the study of this period of prehistory as well as acting as a reference for students and scholars already researching this area. The book begins by considering the Mesolithic prelude, specifically the millennium prior to the start of the Neolithic in Britain and Ireland. It then goes on to consider what life was like for people at the time, alongside the monumental record and how people treated the dead. This is presented chronologically, with separate chapters on the early Neolithic, middle Neolithic, late Neolithic and early Beaker periods. Finally it considers future research priorities for the study of the Neolithic.
