Format:
1 online resource (217 pages)
ISBN:
9781789254112
Series Statement:
Neolithic Studies Group Ser. v.17
Content:
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Foreword : Timothy Darvill and Kenneth Brophy -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements : Alistair Barclay, David Field and Jim Leary -- List of contributors -- 1. Schrödinger's Cat: Houses for the living and the dead : Jim Leary, David Field and Alistair Barclay -- 2. Hypogea and the clubhouse: Neolithic Malta's houses of the living and houses of the dead : Robert P. Barratt, Caroline Malone, T. Rowan McLaughlinand Eóin W. Parkinson -- 3. Houses of the living, houses of the dead: A view from the Polish lowlands : Joanna Pyzel -- 4. 'Cicéron c'est Poincaré'. Dealing with geometry: Neolithic house plans and the earliest monuments : Philippe Chambon -- 5. The dead and the Linearbandkeramik longhouse : Penny Bickle -- 6. The long and short of it: Memory and practice in the Early Neolithic of Britain and Ireland : Alasdair Whittle -- 7. Measuring up: Longhouses, enclosures or mounds? : Roy Loveday -- 8. Houses foundational: Gathering histories at Dorstone Hill, Herefordshire : Keith Ray and Julian Thomas -- 9. New work on long barrows in Lincolnshire : Denise Drury and Tim Allen with David Knight, David McOmish, Matthew Oakey and Caroline Skinner, and Paul Cope-Faulkner, Neil Parker, Sean Parker and Jonathon Smith -- 10. A dialogue with the dead? The relationship between an Early Neolithic rectangular timber building and a chambered tomb on Holy Island, Anglesey ,north-west Wales : Jane Kenney -- 11. House of the living, house of the dead: An open and shut case from Ballyglass, Co. Mayo? : Jessica Smyth -- 12. Shaky foundations: Romantic nationalism and the development of the 'Irish model' of Neolithic settlement : Andrew Whitefield -- 13. Structure, metaphor and funerary practices in Neolithic Scotland : Alison Sheridan -- 14. The state of play : Frances Healy.
Note:
This book presents the proceedings of a seminar held in November 2018, organised by he Neolithic Studies Group (NSG) and hosted by the British Museum, that forms part of an ongoing series of NSG seminar papers. (Foreword)
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781789254105
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Houses of the dead Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2020 ISBN 9781789254105
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Linearbandkeramik
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Langhaus
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Grab
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