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1 online resource |
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Queen's University Belfast Irish Archaeological Monograph Ser. ; v.1 |
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Queen's University Belfast Irish Archaeological Monograph Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents Page -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Aims and Objectives -- Figure 1.1 Photo of a cist containing an inhumation and accompanied by a tripartite bowl from Church Bay, Rathlin, Co. Antrim (after Sloan 2008) -- Figure 1.2 Photo of an inverted vase urn within a cist from Knockroe, Co. Tyrone (Williams and Wilkinson 1988) -- Why study the social structure of the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age by an analysis of the single burial tradition? -- Definitions -- Social structure |
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The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age -- The single burial tradition -- The structure of the book -- Anthropological approaches to the study of death and funerary ritual -- The sociologists -- Introduction -- Figure 1.1 Photo of a cist containing an inhumation and accompanied by a tripartite bowl from Church Bay, Rathlin, Co. Antrim (after Sloan 2008) -- Figure 1.2 Photo of an inverted vase urn within a cist from Knockroe, Co. Tyrone (Williams and Wilkinson 1988) -- Chapter 2 Theoretical Approaches to the study of Death, Funerary Rituals and Social Structure -- The functionalists |
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Structuralism -- Modern anthropological studies of death ritual -- Archaeological approaches to the study of death and funerary ritual -- The 'New Archaeology' and its contribution to the study of death and funerary ritual -- Critics of the 'New Archaeology' and their approach to the study of death and funerary ritual -- The new synthesis -- Modern approaches to the study of social structure -- Ranked societies -- Un-ranked or egalitarian societies -- Stratified societies |
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Figure 2.1 Diagrammatic summary of the interrelationships of degree of ranking, access to the economic base and social evolutionary typology. -- Conclusions -- Figure 2.1 Diagrammatic summary of the interrelationships of degree of ranking, access to the economic base and social evolutionary typology. -- Chapter 3 Ireland in the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age -- Introduction -- The archaeology of the Irish Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age -- The Late Chalcolithic / Early Bronze Age environment -- Into the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age -- Ireland at the cusp of the Chalcolithic |
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Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age settlement -- Non-funerary rituals of the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age in Ireland -- Megalithic burial rituals of the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age in Ireland -- Figure 3.1 Cloghnagalla, Co. Derry / Londonderry wedge tomb after Herring (1940). -- Wedge tombs and Atlantic Europe -- Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age metallurgy in Ireland -- Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age metalwork -- Daggers -- Halberds -- Gold in Early Bronze Age Ireland -- Is there continuity between Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Ireland? -- Lunulae -- Provenance of Irish gold |
| Summary |
This book describes and analyses the increasing complexity of later Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age burial in Ireland, using burial complexity as a proxy for increasing social complexity, and as a tool for examining social structure |
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Burial -- Ireland -- History -- To 1500
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Copper age -- Ireland
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Bronze age -- Ireland
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Prehistoric archaeology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Bronze age.
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Burial.
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Copper age.
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Ireland.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1789696321 |
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9781789696325 |
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