Dwelling among the monuments : the Neolithic village of Barnhouse, Maeshowe passage grave and surrounding monuments at Stenness, Orkney
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Dwelling among the monuments : the Neolithic village of Barnhouse, Maeshowe passage grave and surrounding monuments at Stenness, Orkney
(McDonald Institute monographs)
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, c2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-397)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides an engrossing account of the lives of the inhabitants of the village of Barnhouse, a late Neolithic settlement complex in Orkney. The excavation of Barnhouse between 1986 and 1993 constitutes the largest investigation of a Neolithic settlement in northern Britain since the 1920s. It consequently provides an ideal opportunity to reconsider architectural representation, the social construction of identity, and social and ritual practices within a late Neolithic community. The inhabitants of Barnhouse lived within one of the most spectacular monumental landscapes of the British Neolithic, and this volume also describes smaller-scale excavations at the nearby passage grave of Maeshowe and at the Stone of Odin. The results of these investigations provide the basis for an interpretative account of the habitation and construction of this monumental landscape over a five hundred year period of Orcadian prehistory (c.3200-2700 BC).
Dwelling Among the Monuments marks a departure from standard archaeological excavation monographs: while containing the customary descriptive accounts and specialist reports, it employs archaeological evidence to capture the social dimensions of life within a village and its associated monuments.
Table of Contents
- Forward (Colin Renfrew)
- Investigations in Orkney (C Richards)
- The Neolithic Settlement of Orkney (C Richards)
- Living in Barnhouse (A Jones and C Richards)
- The Dwellings at Barnhouse (J Downes and C Richards)
- The Ceremonial House 2 (C Richards)
- Structure 8: Monumentality at Barnhouse (J Hill and C Richards)
- The Villagers of Barnhouse (S Jones and C Richards)
- Beyond the Village: Barnhouse Odin and the Stones of Stenness (A Challands, M Edmonds and C Richards)
- The Passage Grave of Maeshowe (A Challands and C Richards)
- The Anatomy of a Megalithic Landscape (D Garrow, J Raven and C Richards)
- The Grooved Ware from Barnhouse (A Jones)
- Organic Residue Analysis of Grooved Ware from Barnhouse (A Jones, W J Cole and R E Jones)
- The Barnhouse Lithic Assemblage (R Middleton)
- The Stone Tools (A Clarke)
- The Worked Pumice (A Clarke)
- The Charred Plant Remains from Barhouse and Maeshowe (P Hinton)
- Appendix A: The Pollen Remains from Barnhouse (J Birnie)
- The Charcoal (C R Cartwright)
- Barnhouse Faunal Remains (S E King)
- Soil Analysis at Barnhouse and Maeshowe (C French)
- Analysis of the Cramp from Barnhouse and Barnhouse Odin (C P Stapleton and S G E Bowman)
- Dating Barnhouse (P Ashmore).
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