Settlement in the Irish Neolithic
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78925-882-0 (ISBN)
The Irish Neolithic has been dominated by the study of megalithic tombs, but the defining element of Irish settlement evidence is the rectangular timber Early Neolithic house, the numbers of which have more than quadrupled in the last ten years. The substantial Early Neolithic timber house was a short-lived architectural phenomenon of as little as 90 years, perhaps like short-lived Early Neolithic long barrows and causewayed enclosures. This book explores the wealth of evidence for settlement and houses throughout the Irish Neolithic, in relation to Britain and continental Europe. More importantly it incorporates the wealth of new, and often unpublished, evidence from developer-led archaeological excavations and large grey-literature resources. The settlement evidence scattered across the landscape, and found as a result of developer-funded work, provides the social context for the more famous stone monuments that have traditionally shaped our views of the Neolithic in Ireland. It provides the first comprehensive review of the Neolithic settlement of Ireland, which enables a more holistic and meaningful understanding of the Irish Neolithic.
Jessica Smyth is Associate Professor within the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin. She has worked in the UK and Ireland across the university and heritage sectors, most recently as Principal Investigator on the 'Passage Tomb People' project, investigating the social drivers of passage tomb construction in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC. She is co-editor of Tracking the Neolithic House in Europe: Sedentism, Architecture and Practice (with Daniela Hofmann, 2014).
1. Populating the past
2. The house and society
3. The Irish early Neolithic house
4. The role of the Early Neolithic house
5. Beyond the ‘house horizon’
6. Settling the island: activity and place
7. A landscape in small acts
8. After the flood: re-assessing the Irish Neolithic
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.01.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | B/w |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 280 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78925-882-0 / 1789258820 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78925-882-0 / 9781789258820 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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