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1 online resource (xii, 225 pages :) : illustrations, maps |
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Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; 12 |
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Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; 12.
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Contents |
Cover; Foreword by Kenneth Brophy and Timothy Darvill; Preface and acknowledgements; List of contributors; 1. Introduction: beyond the mundane?; 2. Breaking ground: an overview of pits and pit-digging in Neolithic Ireland; 3. Sounds from the underground: Neolithic ritual pits and pit-clusterson the Isle of Man and beyond; 4. Deposition on a Neolithic settlement site at Green, Isle of Eday, Orkney; 5. Big pit, little pit, big pit, little pit...: pit practices in Western Scotlandin the 4th millennium BC; 6. Within and beyond pits: deposition in lowland Neolithic Scotland |
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7. Social structures: pits and depositional practice in Neolithic Northumberland8. Preservation and the pit problem: some examplesfrom the Middle Trent Valley; 9. Social fabrics: people and pots at Earlier Neolithic Kilverstone, Norfolk; 10. Pits, pots and plant remains: trends in Neolithic depositionin Carmarthenshire, South Wales; 11. Place, presencing and pits in the Neolithic of the Severn-Wye region; 12. Totemism and food taboos in the Early Neolithic: a feast of roe deerat the Coneybury 'Anomaly', Wiltshire, Southern Britain |
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13. Neolithic to early Bronze Age pit deposition practicesand the temporality of occupation in the Thames Valley14. Domesticity in the Neolithic: excavations at Kingsmead Quarry,Horton, Berkshire; 15. Concluding discussion: pits and perspective |
Summary |
The rise to prominence of pits within narratives of the British and Irish Neolithic is well-documented in recent literature. Pits have been cropping up in excavations for centuries, resulting in a very broad spectrum of interpretations but three main factors have led to the recent change in our perception and representation of these features: a broad shift in people's expectations as to what a Neolithic settlement should be; the development of the concept of 'structured deposition', within which pits have played a key role; and a dramatic rise in the number of pits actually known about. Develo |
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Proceedings of a seminar |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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English |
Subject |
Borrow pits -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
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Neolithic period -- Great Britain -- Congresses
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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HISTORY / Europe / General
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Borrow pits
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Neolithic period
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Great Britain
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Electronic book
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Author |
Anderson-Whymark, Hugo
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Thomas, Julian
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ISBN |
9781842177075 |
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1842177079 |
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