Cladh Hallan Roundhouses And The Dead In The Hebridean Bronze Age And Iron Age

Author : Mike Parker Pearson,Jacqui Mulville,Helen Smith,Peter Marshall
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789256963

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Cladh Hallan - Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age by Mike Parker Pearson,Jacqui Mulville,Helen Smith,Peter Marshall Pdf

This first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker period (Early Bronze Age c. 2000 BC) to the Early Iron Age (c. 500 BC) at the unusually long-occupied site of Cladh Hallan on South Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland. Particular highlights of its sequence are a cremation burial ground and pyre site of the 18th–16th centuries BC and a row of three Late Bronze Age sunken-floored roundhouses constructed in the 10th century BC. Beneath these roundhouses, four inhumation graves contained skeletons, two of which were remains of composite collections of body parts with evidence for post-mortem soft tissue preservation prior to burial. They have proved to be the first evidence for mummification in Bronze Age Britain. Cladh Hallan’s remarkable stratigraphic sequence, preserved in the machair sand of South Uist, includes a unique 500-year sequence of roundhouse life in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain. One of the most important results of the excavation has come from intensive environmental and micro-debris sampling of house floors and outdoor areas to recover patterns of discard and to interpret the spatial use of 15 domestic interiors from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age. From Cladh Hallan’s roundhouse floors we gain intimate insights into how daily life was organized within the house – where people cooked, ate, worked and slept. Such evidence rarely survives from prehistoric houses in Britain or Europe, and the results make a profound contribution to long-running debates about the sunwise organisation of roundhouse activities. Activity at Cladh Hallan ended with the construction and abandonment of two unusual double-roundhouses in the Early Iron Age. One appears to have been a smokery and steam room, and the other was used for metalworking.

Author : Mike Parker Pearson,Jacqui Mulville,Helen Smith,Peter Marshall
Publisher : Sheffield Environmental and Ar
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1789256933

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Cladh Hallan by Mike Parker Pearson,Jacqui Mulville,Helen Smith,Peter Marshall Pdf

The first of two volumes presenting the evidence from excavations at the site of Cladh Hallan on South Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland.

Author : Mike Parker Pearson,Jacqui Mulville,Helen Smith,Peter Marshall
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2025-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9798888571163

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Cladh Hallan: Roundhouses and the Dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age by Mike Parker Pearson,Jacqui Mulville,Helen Smith,Peter Marshall Pdf

Full report on the enormous, excellently preserved, non-ceramic finds and environmental data from the Cladh Hallan settlement, Western Isles of Scotland (c. 2000-500 cal BC).

Author : Mike Parker Pearson,Jacqui Mulville,Helen Smith,Peter Marshall
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789256949

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Cladh Hallan - Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age by Mike Parker Pearson,Jacqui Mulville,Helen Smith,Peter Marshall Pdf

This first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker period (Early Bronze Age c. 2000 BC) to the Early Iron Age (c. 500 BC) at the unusually long-occupied site of Cladh Hallan on South Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland. Particular highlights of its sequence are a cremation burial ground and pyre site of the 18th–16th centuries BC and a row of three Late Bronze Age sunken-floored roundhouses constructed in the 10th century BC. Beneath these roundhouses, four inhumation graves contained skeletons, two of which were remains of composite collections of body parts with evidence for post-mortem soft tissue preservation prior to burial. They have proved to be the first evidence for mummification in Bronze Age Britain. Cladh Hallan’s remarkable stratigraphic sequence, preserved in the machair sand of South Uist, includes a unique 500-year sequence of roundhouse life in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain. One of the most important results of the excavation has come from intensive environmental and micro-debris sampling of house floors and outdoor areas to recover patterns of discard and to interpret the spatial use of 15 domestic interiors from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age. From Cladh Hallan’s roundhouse floors we gain intimate insights into how daily life was organized within the house – where people cooked, ate, worked and slept. Such evidence rarely survives from prehistoric houses in Britain or Europe, and the results make a profound contribution to long-running debates about the sunwise organisation of roundhouse activities. Activity at Cladh Hallan ended with the construction and abandonment of two unusual double-roundhouses in the Early Iron Age. One appears to have been a smokery and steam room, and the other was used for metalworking.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789258493

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CLACHTOLL by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mike Parker Pearson,Marek Zvelebil
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782976288

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Excavations at Cill Donnain by Mike Parker Pearson,Marek Zvelebil Pdf

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. The first major excavation on South Uist discovered that what was thought to be a shell midden at Cill Donnain was in fact a wheelhouse, a type of dwelling used in the period c.300 BC – AD 500; under which lay the remains of a Bronze Age settlement. This settlement was partly investigated by Marik Zvelebil in 1991 and then later by Mike Parker Pearson and Kate MacDonald in 2003. The site itself is situated at the foot of a high steep-sided dune on the eastern edge of a large sand valley, close to the western shore of Loch Cill Donnain. The archaeological report of the excavation at the Cill Donnain wheelhouse shows that, in comparison with contemporary neighbouring settlements, it was unlikely that each was an independent unit and that they were linked by social and economic inter-dependency. The wheelhouse thus provides striking new evidence that contributes to developing theories about the social, material and economic life in the period. This volume presents the extensive archaeological evidence found at the site, including pottery, faunal remains and a variety of bone and metal tools, illustrating that the Cill Donnain landscape is rich in archaeological sites of all periods from the Beaker to the post-Medieval.

Author : Charles French
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789259216

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Human Transformations of the Earth by Charles French Pdf

This book charts and explains how human activities have shaped and altered the development of soils in many parts of the world, taking advantage of five decades of soil analytical work in many archaeological landscapes from around the globe. The core of this volume describes and illustrates major transformations of soils and the processes involved in these that have occurred during the Holocene and how these relate to human activities as much as natural causes and trajectories of development, right up to the present day. This is done in two ways: first by examining a number of major processes and impacts on the landscape such as Holocene warming and the development of woodland, clearance and agricultural activities, and second by examining the trajectories of these changes in soil systems in different palaeo-environmental situations in several diverse parts of the world. The transformations identified are relevant to prevalent themes of today such as over-development and soil, land and environmental degradation and resilience. The studies articulated relate to Britain, southeastern Europe, the Mediterranean basin, East Africa, northern India and Peru in South America.

Author : Michael Parker Pearson
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849946995

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Bronze Age Britain by Michael Parker Pearson Pdf

During the Neolithic and Bronze Age - a period covering some 4,000 years from the beginnings of farming by stone-using communities to the end of the era in which bronze was an important material for weapons and tools - the face of Britain changed profoundly, from a forest wilderness to a large patchwork of open ground and managed woodland. The axe was replaced as a key symbol, first by the dagger and finally by the sword. The houses of the living came to supplant the tombs of the dead as the most permanent features in the landscape. In this fascinating book, eminent archeologist Michael Parker Pearson looks at the ways in which we can interpret the challenging and tantalising evidence from this prehistoric era. He also examines the various arguments and current theories of archeologist about these times. Drawing on recent discoveries and research, and illustrated with numerous maps, plans, reconstructions and photographs, this book shows what life was like and how it changed during the Neolithic and Bronze Age.

Author : Ian Armit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521877565

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Headhunting and the Body in Iron Age Europe by Ian Armit Pdf

This book examines the widespread evidence for the removal, curation and display of the human head in Iron Age Europe.

Author : Rachel Pope
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1785709097

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The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent by Rachel Pope Pdf

The Earlier Iron Age (c. 800-400 BC) has often eluded attention in British Iron Age studies. Traditionally, we have been enticed by the wealth of material from the later part of the millennium and by developments in southern England in particular, culminating in the arrival of the Romans. The result has been a chronological and geographical imbalance, with the Earlier Iron Age often characterised more by what it lacks than what it comprises: for Bronze Age studies it lacks large quantities of bronze, whilst from the perspective of the Later Iron Age it lacks elaborate enclosure. In contrast, the same period on mainland Europe yields a wealth of burial evidence with links to Mediterranean communities and so has not suffered in quite the same way. Gradual acceptance of this problem over the past decade, along with the corpus of new discoveries produced by developer-funded archaeology, now provides us with an opportunity to create a more balanced picture of the Iron Age in Britain as a whole. The twenty-six papers in the book seek to establish what we now know (and do not know) about Earlier Iron Age communities in Britain and their neighbours on the Continent. The authors engage with a variety of current research themes, seeking to characterise the Earlier Iron Age via the topics of landscape, environment, and agriculture; material culture and everyday life; architecture, settlement, and social organisation; and with the issue of transition - looking at how communities of the Late Bronze Age transform into those of the Earlier Iron Age, and how we understand the social changes of the later first millennium BC. Geographically, the book brings together recent research from regional studies covering the full length of Britain, as well as taking us over to Ireland, across the Channel to France, and then over the North Sea to Denmark, the Low Countries, and beyond.

Author : Ronald Hutton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300198584

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Pagan Britain by Ronald Hutton Pdf

Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century. In this ambitious and thoroughly up-to-date book, Ronald Hutton reveals the long development, rapid suppression, and enduring cultural significance of paganism, from the Paleolithic Era to the coming of Christianity. He draws on an array of recently discovered evidence and shows how new findings have radically transformed understandings of belief and ritual in Britain before the arrival of organized religion. Setting forth a chronological narrative, Hutton along the way makes side visits to explore specific locations of ancient pagan activity. He includes the well-known sacred sites—Stonehenge, Avebury, Seahenge, Maiden Castle, Anglesey—as well as more obscure locations across the mainland and coastal islands. In tireless pursuit of the elusive “why” of pagan behavior, Hutton astonishes with the breadth of his understanding of Britain’s deep past and inspires with the originality of his insights.

Author : D. W. Harding
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199558575

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The Iron Age Round-House by D. W. Harding Pdf

A fully illustrated study of Iron Age round-houses, which explores not just their architectural aspects but more importantly their role in the social, economic and ritual structure of their communities, and their significance as symbols of Iron Age society in the face of Romanization.

Author : Graeme Cavers
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Limited
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1407306405

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Crannogs and Later Prehistoric Settlement in Western Scotland by Graeme Cavers Pdf

The focus of this research is on the later prehistoric period, from the earliest constructional origins of western Scotland crannogs in the late Bronze Age through to their apparent emergence as status dwellings in the Early Historic period after the midfirst millennium AD. The aim is to investigate the ways in which crannogs functioned as settlements, both on a practical, economic as well as a symbolic and socio-cultural level. Throughout, the primary concern is with contextualisation, considering crannogs within their correct chronological and cultural context through the critical analysis of dating evidence as well as the identification of the relevant ritual and symbolic themes- i.e. the Iron Age veneration of water. It is argued in this book that the stereotypical view of a crannog that has largely been derived from the results of work carried out on Irish crannogs has been misleading in the case of the Scottish sites, tending towards a view of crannogs as high-status strongholds, often as royal seats. Though crannogs were certainly a significant feature of the Early Historic period in Scotland, there is as yet no evidence of direct connections to royalty in this period and, based on the currently available evidence, the characterisation of crannogsas high status sites is misguided in the context of their late Bronze and Iron Age origins.

Author : Niall M. Sharples
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN : 184217469X

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A Late Iron Age Farmstead in the Outer Hebrides by Niall M. Sharples Pdf

The settlement at Bornais consists of a complex of mounds which protrude from the machair plain on the island of South Uist. The excavation of the settlement is a long-term project which has been going since 1994. This volume examines mound 1, thought to have been occupied from the late Bronze Age.

Author : Andy Burnham
Publisher : Watkins
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781786782410

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The Old Stones of Wales by Andy Burnham Pdf

There are many hundreds of fascinating prehistoric sites in Wales, in some of the most beautiful locations in Britain, from mountaintop settings, such as at Bryn Cader Faner, to headlands with all-round sea views, as at Coetan Arthur, or on truly remote moorland, as at Bannau Sir Gaer. The road links between North and South Wales are not that great, so it's probably best to choose one or the other as a destination unless you are up for a lot of motoring. In North Wales, Anglesey has a particularly dense concentration of megalithic sites, with many in Gwynedd and Conwy to visit on the way. South Wales stretches from Monmouthshire to Pembrokeshire, where there is the biggest and best variety of sites, including the iconic Pentre Ifan with its capstone apparently delicately floating over its three massive uprights. The Old Stones of Wales is part of a series covering the megalithic and other prehistoric sites of Britain and Ireland. The series is published together as The Old Stones: A Field Guide to the Megalithic Sites of Britain and Ireland, available as a book and an ebook.