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Author : Gabriel Cooney,Eoin Grogan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 1869857283
A study of the process of social change in the prehistoric period.
Author : George Eogan,Mr George Eogan,Michael Herity
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134522781
The authors examine Irish prehistory from the economic, sociological and artistic viewpoints enabling the reader to comprehend the vast amount of archaeological work accomplished in Ireland over the last twenty years.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Killian Driscoll
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Richard Bradley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139462013
Sited at the furthest limits of the Neolithic revolution and standing at the confluence of the two great sea routes of prehistory, Britain and Ireland are distinct from continental Europe for much of the prehistoric sequence. In this landmark 2007 study - the first significant survey of the archaeology of Britain and Ireland for twenty years - Richard Bradley offers an interpretation of the unique archaeological record of these islands based on a wealth of current and largely unpublished data. Bradley surveys the entire archaeological sequence over a 4,000 year period, from the adoption of agriculture in the Neolithic period to the discovery of Britain and Ireland by travellers from the Mediterranean during the later pre-Roman Iron Age. Significantly, this is the first modern account to treat Britain and Ireland on equal terms, offering a detailed interpretation of the prehistory of both islands.
Author : Katherine Leonard
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784912215
This text develops a new perspective on Late Bronze Age (LBA) Ireland by identifying and analysing patterns of ritual practice in the archaeological record. The bookends of this study are the introduction of the bronze slashing sword to Ireland at around 1200 BC and the introduction and proliferation of iron technology beginning around 600 BC.
Author : J. P. Mallory
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500771402
An essential new history of ancient Ireland and the Irish, written as an engrossing detective story About eighty million people today can trace their descent back to the occupants of Ireland. But where did the occupants of the island themselves come from and what do we even mean by “Irish” in the first place? This is the first major attempt to deal with the core issues of how the Irish came into being. J. P. Mallory emphasizes that the Irish did not have a single origin, but are a product of multiple influences that can only be tracked by employing the disciplines of archaeology, genetics, geology, linguistics, and mythology. Beginning with the collision that fused the two halves of Ireland together, the book traces Ireland’s long journey through space and time to become an island. The origins of its first farmers and their monumental impact on the island is followed by an exploration of how metallurgists in copper, bronze, and iron brought Ireland into increasingly wider orbits of European culture. Assessments of traditional explanations of Irish origins are combined with the very latest genetic research into the biological origins of the Irish.
Author : Killian Driscoll
Publisher : Killian Driscoll
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Jessica Smyth
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782977520
The Irish Neolithic has been dominated by the study of megalithic tombs, but the defining element of Irish settlement evidence is the rectangular timber Early Neolithic house, the numbers of which have more than quadrupled in the last ten years. The substantial Early Neolithic timber house was a short-lived architectural phenomenon of as little as 90 years, perhaps like short-lived Early Neolithic long barrows and causewayed enclosures. This book explores the wealth of evidence for settlement and houses throughout the Irish Neolithic, in relation to Britain and continental Europe. More importantly it incorporates the wealth of new, and often unpublished, evidence from developer-led archaeological excavations and large grey-literature resources. The settlement evidence scattered across the landscape, and found as a result of developer-funded work, provides the social context for the more famous stone monuments that have traditionally shaped our views of the Neolithic in Ireland. It provides the first comprehensive review of the Neolithic settlement of Ireland, which enables a more holistic and meaningful understanding of the Irish Neolithic.
Author : Victoria Ginn,Rebecca Enlander,Rebecca Crozier
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781842178133
Identity is relational and a construct, and is expressed in a myriad of ways. For example, material culture and its pluralist meanings have been readily manipulated by humans in a prehistoric context in order to construct personal and group identities. Artefacts were often from or reminiscent of far-flung places and were used to demonstrate membership of an (imagined) regional, or European community. Earthworks frequently archive maximum visual impact through elaborate ramparts and entrances with the minimum amount of effort, indicating that the construction of identities were as much in the eye of the perceivor, as of the perceived. Variations in domestic architectural style also demonstrate the malleability of identity, and the prolonged, intermittent use of particular places for specific functions indicates that the identity of place is just as important in our archaeological understanding as the identity of people. By using a wide range of case studies, both temporally and spatially, these thought processes may be explored further and diachronic and geographic patterns in expressions of identity investigated.
Author : Mark McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351926218
This book is the first sustained attempt to incorporate critical scholarship and thought at the cutting edge of contemporary geography, history and archaeology into the burgeoning field of Irish heritage studies. It seeks to illustrate the validity of multiple depictions of the Irish past, showing how scrutiny of heritage practices and meanings is so essential for illuminating our understanding of the present. Examining Ireland's heritages from a critical perspective that celebrates notions of heterogeneity and uniqueness, the distinguished contributors to this book scrutinise the multiplicity of complex relations between heritage, history, memory, commemoration, economy, and cultural identity within various historical, geographical and archaeological contexts. Using several examples and case studies, this book raises issues not only from a uniquely Irish perspective, but also investigates the memorialisation and marketing of the Irish past in overseas locations such as the USA and Australia.
Author : Nyree Finlay,Sinead McCartan,Nicky Milner,Caroline Wickham-Jones
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782973379
This volume of papers is dedicated to Peter Woodman in celebration of his contribution to archaeology, providing a glimpse of the many ways in which he has touched the lives of so many. The twenty-one contributions cover many aspects of predominantly Mesolithic archaeology in Ireland, mainland Britain and North-west Europe, reflecting the range and breadth of Peters own interests and the international esteem in which his work is held. His particular interest in antiquarians and the material they collected began early in his career and Part 1 presents papers which deal with artefacts and finds by antiquarians. Part 2 is concerned with papers on fieldwork projects, both new sites and sites which have been re-investigated, predominantly focusing on the Mesolithic period. Part 3 presents papers on the theme of people and animals, particularly the topic of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition from different angles.
Author : William O'Brien,James O’Driscoll
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784916565
This is the first project to study hillforts in relation to warfare and conflict in Bronze Age Ireland. This project combines remote sensing and GIS-based landscape analysis with conventional archaeological survey to investigate ten prehistoric hillforts across southern Ireland.
Author : Victoria Ruth Ginn
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784912444
This study examines Middle–Late Bronze Age (c. 1750–600 BC) domestic settlement patterns in Ireland. The results reveal a distinct rise in the visibility, and a rapid adaption, of domestic architecture, which seems to have occurred earlier in Ireland than elsewhere in western and northern Europe.
Author : Gabriel Cooney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135108557
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. Gabriel Cooney argues that the archaeological evidence demonstrates a much more complex picture than the current orthodoxy on Neolithic Europe, with its assumption of mobile lifestyles, suggests. He integrates the study of landscape, settlement, agriculture, material culture and burial practice to offer a rounded, realistic picture of the complexities and the realities of Neolithic lives and societies in Ireland.
Author : Robert Layton,Peter Ucko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134828357
The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape contributes to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, provides new and varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents, and raises important policy issues concerning development and the management of heritage.