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Author:   Ian Armit ,  Eileen M. Murphy ,  Eiméar Nelis ,  Derek Simpson
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   1.066kg
ISBN:  

9781842170915

ISBN 10:   1842170910
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   15 February 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction (Ian Armit, Eileen Murphy, Eimear Nelis and Derek Simpson) French Connections I: Spreading the marmites thinly (Alison Sheridan) French Connections II: Of cows and men (Anne Tresset) Contemplating some awful(ly interesting) vistas: Importing cattle and red deer into prehistoric Ireland (Peter Woodman and Margaret McCarthy) Terminology, time and space: Labels, radiocarbon chronologies and a 'Neolithic' of small worlds (Patrick Ashmore) Rooted or routed? Landscapes of Neolithic settlement in Ireland (Gabriel Cooney) The early farming settlement of south western England in the Neolithic (Roger Mercer) Neolithic settlement in the lowlands of Scotland: A preliminary survey (Gordon Barclay) Once upon a time Skara Brae was unique (David Clarke) The Drowners: Permanence and transience in the Hebridean Neolithic (Ian Armit) Neolithic Northton: A review of the evidence (Eileen Murphy and Derek Simpson) Billown and the Neolithic of the Isle of Man (Timothy Darvill) The Early Neolithic and the Manx environment (Peter J Davey and Jim B Innes) Rheast Buigh, Patrick: Middle Neolithic exploitation of the Manx uplands? (Peter J Davey and Jenny Woodcock) What do we mean by Neolithic settlement? Some approaches, 10 years on (Alex Gibson) The Irish 'house boom'. Irish Neolithic houses (Ian Armit, Eileen Murphy, Eimear Nelis and Derek Simpson) Excavations at Thornhill, Co. Londonderry (Paul Logue) Neolithic houses in Ballyharry townland, Islandmagee, Co. Antrim (Dermot G Moore) Neolithic structure at Drummenny Lower, Co. Donegal: An environmental perspective (Cathy Dunne) The excavation of a Neolithic house at Enagh townland, Co. Derry (Cormac McSparran) Archaeological excavations of a Neolithic settlement at Coolfore, Co. Louth (Coilin O Drisceoil) A Neolithic house in Cloghers, Co. Kerry (Jacinta Kiely) Neolithic beginnings on Roughan Hill and the Burren (Carleton Jones) Irish Neolithic settlement architecture: A reappraisal (Sarah Cross) Donegore and Lyles Hill, Neolithic enclosed sites in Co. Antrim: The lithic assemblages (Eimear Nelis) Neolithic expectations (Richard Bradley)

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excellent'--Frances Healy Landscape History (01/01/2004) deserves a place on the shelves of all those interested in prehistory.'--Sylvia Desmond Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 2004 This volume will be widely used and quoted.'--Alasdair Whittle Agricultural History Review, 2004 excellent'--Frances Healy Landscape History, 2004

excellent'--Frances Healy Landscape History (01/01/2004)

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