Art And Architecture In Neolithic Orkney
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Author | : Antonia Thomas |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2016-09-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1784914347 |
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.
Author | : Anna Ritchie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Orkney, newly-designated as a world heritage site, has numerous well-preserved Neolithic monuments which give insights into the lives of neolithic peoples in Britain and beyond. This text discusses the subject.
Author | : Colin C. Richards |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Neolithic period |
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Author | : Rhys Morgan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021 |
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Author | : Charles Tait |
Publisher | : Charles Tait Guide Books |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2012 |
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ISBN | : 9781909036123 |
Author | : Daniela Hofmann |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2012-12-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1461452899 |
The Neolithic period is noted primarily for the change from hunter-gatherer societies to agriculture, domestication and sedentism. This change has been studied in the past by archaeologists observing the movements of plants, animals and people. But has not been examined by looking at the domestic architecture of the time. Along with tracking the movement of sedentism, Neolithic houses are also able to show researchers the beginnings of cultural identity, group representation through the construction and decoration of these structures. Additionally as agriculture moved west and north in this era, the architecture and material culture shows this change and its significance. Chapters are arranged chronologically so that authors can address differences and similarities of their region to neighboring ones. To ensure continuity, authors have framed the chapters around the following considerations: construction materials and architectural characteristics; how houses facilitated or perpetua
Author | : Mark Edmonds |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2019-10-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1788543432 |
The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological wonders. The Orcadian Neolithic is home to some of the best-preserved Neolithic sites in Europe: here we can find evidence of a dynamic society with connections binding Orkney to Ireland, to southern Britain and to continental Europe. Yet there is much that remains unknown about the societies that created these sites. In Orcadia, Mark Edmonds traces the development of the Orcadian Neolithic from the early fourth millennium BC through to the end of the period nearly two thousand years later, using artefacts, architecture and the wider landscape to recreate the lives of Neolithic communities across the region.
Author | : Amanda Brend |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2020-09-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789255074 |
Winner, Current Archaeology 2023 Book of the Year 2023 This volume brings together several years of work devoted to the wider landscape of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. It documents the results of a program of geophysical and related survey across an area of c. 285 hectares between Skara Brae on the west Orkney coast and Maeshowe, by the Loch of Stenness. The project has made it possible to talk for the first time about the landscape context of some of the most remarkable and renowned prehistoric monuments in Western Europe. The aims are to synthesize the data from different forms of survey and to document the changing character and development of this landscape over time. The results are genuinely remarkable are presented in a manner which makes the material of interest and value to a relatively wide readership, with an array of images which fully document and interpret the evidence. Survey work at a landscape scale tends to deal with palimpsests. Here descriptive sections are set within a thematic structure designed to explore the changing use and significance of different areas over time. The results shed important new light on the character and extent of known prehistoric sites and ceremonial monuments. But they also document the afterlives of these and other places and their relation to the lived landscapes of the historic and more recent past. In tracing the changing configuration of the World Heritage Area, we can begin appreciate this landscape as an artifact of several millennia of dwelling, working land, attending to wider worlds and to the past itself.
Author | : Trevor Garnham |
Publisher | : History Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
This book looks at archaeological remains as architecture with inherent meaning. In this study an architect draws on research, fieldwork, mythology, anthropology, religion and folklore to elucidate the meaning of the stone remains and the cosmos they represented.
Author | : Miles Russell |
Publisher | : Tempus Publishing, Limited |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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