The Socketed Bronze Axes in Ireland

The Socketed Bronze Axes in Ireland
Author: George Eogan
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783515072687

Socketed axes were widespread in the Irish Bronze Age, associated with a range of industrial, domestic and ritual activities reflected in the enormous variety of axe sizes, something that is immediately evident from Eogan's typology and illustrated catalogue.

Ritual in Late Bronze Age Ireland

Ritual in Late Bronze Age Ireland
Author: Katherine Leonard
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1784912212

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.

Mapping Society: Settlement Structure in Later Bronze Age Ireland

Mapping Society: Settlement Structure in Later Bronze Age Ireland
Author: Victoria Ruth Ginn
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2016-01-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1784912441

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.

Bronze Artefact Production in Late Bronze Age Ireland

Bronze Artefact Production in Late Bronze Age Ireland
Author: Simon Ó Faoláin
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN:

By the late Bronze Age the Irish had become masters in metalworking anf the range of objects produced was in stark contrast to those of the earlie Bronze Age. This study presents a comprehensive analysis and reconstruction of late Bronze Age metalworking practices through artefactual evidence and also experimental work and ethnography.

Hillforts, Warfare and Society in Bronze Age Ireland

Hillforts, Warfare and Society in Bronze Age Ireland
Author: William O'Brien
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2017-07-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1784916560

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.