The Iron Age Round House

Author : D. W. Harding
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191572265

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

In contrast to Continental Europe, where the Iron Age is abundantly represented by funerary remains as well as by hill-forts and major centres, the British Iron Age is mainly represented by its settlement sites, and especially by houses of circular ground-plan, apparently in marked contrast to the Central and Northern European tradition of rectangular houses. In lowland Britain the evidence for timber round-houses comprises the footprint of post-holes or foundation trenches; in the Atlantic north and west, the remains of monumental stone-built houses survive as upstanding ruins, testimony to the building skills of Iron Age engineers and masons. D. W. Harding's fully illustrated study explores not just the architectural aspects of round-houses, 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 : D. W. Harding
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Dennis William Harding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Architecture, Prehistoric
ISBN : 1383045887

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The Iron Age Round-house by Dennis William Harding Pdf

This is 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 : Rachel Pope
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Mike Parker Pearson,Jacqui Mulville,Helen Smith,Peter Marshall
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Fergus Kelly
Publisher : Scoil
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015073940895

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Early Irish Farming by Fergus Kelly Pdf

Author : Brais X. Currás,Inés Sastre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351012096

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Alternative Iron Ages by Brais X. Currás,Inés Sastre Pdf

Alternative Iron Ages examines Iron Age social formations that sit outside traditional paradigms, developing methods for archaeological characterisation of alternative models of society. In so doing it contributes to the debates concerning the construction and resistance of inequality taking place in archaeology, anthropology and sociology. In recent years, Iron Age research on Western Europe has moved towards new forms of understanding social structures. Yet these alternative social organisations continue to be considered as basic human social formations, which frequently imply marginality and primitivism. In this context, the grand narrative of the European Iron Age continues to be defined by cultural foci, which hide the great regional variety in an artificially homogenous area. This book challenges the traditional classical evolutionist narratives by exploring concepts such as non-triangular societies, heterarchy and segmentarity across regional case studies to test and propose alternative social models for Iron Age social formations. Constructing new social theory both archaeologically based and supported by sociological and anthropological theory, the book is perfect for those looking to examine and understand life in the European Iron Age. We are so grateful to the research project titled "Paisajes rurales antiguos del Noroeste peninsular: formas de dominacion romana y explotacion de recursos" [Ancient rural landscapes in Northwestern Iberia: Roman dominion and resource exploitation] (HAR2015-64632-P; MINECO/FEDER), directed from the Instituto de Historia (CSIC) and also to the Fundaçao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [Foundation for Science and Technology] postdoctoral project: SFRH-BPD-102407-2014.

Author : D.W. Harding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317602866

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The Iron Age in Lowland Britain by D.W. Harding Pdf

This book was written at a time when the older conventional diffusionist view of prehistory, largely associated with the work of V. Gordon Childe, was under rigorous scrutiny from British prehistorians, who still nevertheless regarded the ‘Arras’ culture of eastern Yorkshire and the ‘Belgic’ cemeteries of south-eastern Britain as the product of immigrants from continental Europe. Sympathetic to the idea of population mobility as one mechanism for cultural innovation, as widely recognized historically, it nevertheless attempted a critical re-appraisal of the southern British Iron Age in its continental context. Subsequent fashion in later prehistoric studies has favoured economic, social and cognitive approaches, and the cultural-historical framework has largely been superseded. Routine use of radiocarbon dating and other science-based applications, and new field data resulting from developer-led archaeology have revolutionized understanding of the British Iron Age, and once again raised issues of its relationship to continental Europe.

Author : Dennis W. Harding
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317296508

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The Iron Age in Northern Britain by Dennis W. Harding Pdf

The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the archaeological evidence for earlier Iron Age communities from the southern Pennines to the Northern and Western Isles and the impact of Roman expansion on local populations, through to the emergence of historically-recorded communities in the post-Roman period. The text has been comprehensively revised and expanded to include new discoveries and to take account of advanced techniques, with many new and updated illustrations. The volume presents a comprehensive picture of the ‘long Iron Age’, allowing readers to appreciate how perceptions of Iron Age societies have changed significantly in recent years. New material in this second edition also addresses the key issues of social reconstruction, gender, and identity, as well as assessing the impact of developer-funded archaeology on the discipline. Drawing on recent excavation and research and interpreting evidence from key studies across Scotland and northern England, The Iron Age in Northern Britain continues to be an accessible and authoritative study of later prehistory in the region.

Author : Ian Armit,Ruby Ceron-Cerrasco
Publisher : Society Antiquaries Scotland
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080688594

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Anatomy of an Iron Age Roundhouse by Ian Armit,Ruby Ceron-Cerrasco Pdf

When tidal erosion on Cnip beach uncovered a well-preserved wheelhouse complex, it presented a rare opportunity to shed new light on this architectural phenomenon. This title sets out the results of the excavations, placing them in the wider context of the British and European Iron Age.

Author : Ian Armit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Floris van den Eijnde,Josine Blok,Rolf Strootman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004356733

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Feasting and Polis Institutions by Floris van den Eijnde,Josine Blok,Rolf Strootman Pdf

Exploring a wide array of commensal practices, Feasting and Polis Institutions shows how feasts defined religious and political institutions in the Greek polis from the Early Iron Age to the Imperial Period.

Author : H.R. van Heekeren
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004286443

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The Bronze-Iron Age of Indonesia by H.R. van Heekeren Pdf

Author : A. Bernard Knapp,Peter van Dommelen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1677 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781316194065

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The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean by A. Bernard Knapp,Peter van Dommelen Pdf

The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean offers new insights into the material and social practices of many different Mediterranean peoples during the Bronze and Iron Ages, presenting in particular those features that both connect and distinguish them. Contributors discuss in depth a range of topics that motivate and structure Mediterranean archaeology today, including insularity and connectivity; mobility, migration, and colonization; hybridization and cultural encounters; materiality, memory, and identity; community and household; life and death; and ritual and ideology. The volume's broad coverage of different approaches and contemporary archaeological practices will help practitioners of Mediterranean archaeology to move the subject forward in new and dynamic ways. Together, the essays in this volume shed new light on the people, ideas, and materials that make up the world of Mediterranean archaeology today, beyond the borders that separate Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Author : Elon D. Heymans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781108838580

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The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World by Elon D. Heymans Pdf

This book reconstructs the origins and spread of precious metal money in the Iron Age eastern Mediterranean (1200-600 BCE).