From sickles to circles : Britain and Ireland at the time of Stonehenge /

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Imprint:Stroud [England] : Tempus, 2004.
Description:383 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5570941
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Other authors / contributors:Gibson, A. J. S. (Alex J. S.)
Sheridan, Alison.
ISBN:0752429027 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : Derek Simpson : a personal appreciation
  • 1. Banks and braes : notes for a film-buff fellow / J. V. S. Megaw
  • 2. From madhouse to megaliths / Aubrey Burl
  • 3. Destructions, re-erections and re-creations / J. N. Graham Ritchie
  • 4. Time, space and the standing stones round Calanais / Patrick Ashmore
  • 5. Scottish passage-graves : some confusions and conclusions / Audrey S. Henshall
  • 6. The use of human and faunal material in chambered cairns in Orkney / Anna Ritchie
  • 7. 'A truth universally acknowledged' : some more thoughts on Neolithic round barrows / Ian Kinnes
  • 8. The great Baddow hoard and discoidal knives : more questions than answers / Gillian Varndell
  • 9. Spiralling outwards - the problems and possibilities of a later Neolithic Leitmotiv / Roy Loveday
  • 10. Hostilities in early Neolithic Ireland : trouble with the new neighbours - the evidence from Ballyharry, County Antrim / Dermot G. Moore
  • 11. Neolithic flint-work from the North of Ireland : some thoughts on prominent tool types and their production / Eimear Nelis
  • 12. Reading a burial : the legacy of Overton Hill / Frances Healy and Jan Harding
  • 13. The Neolithic pottery and the Bronze Age cist at Rath, County Wicklow / A. L. Brindley
  • 14. Bell beaker and corded ware culture burial associations : a bottom-up rather than top-down approach / Humphrey Case
  • 15. Food vessels with handles / T. G. Manby
  • 16. Scottish food vessel chronology revisited / Alison Sheridan
  • 17. Small but perfectly formed? : some observations on the Bronze Age cups of Scotland / Alex Gibson
  • 18. An important child's burial from Doune, Perth and Kinross, Scotland / Dawn McLaren
  • 19. A landscape analysis of the Topped Mountain region, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland / Ronan McHugh, Eileen Murphy and Barrie Hartwell
  • 20. (Con)fusion of tradition? : the circle henge in Ireland / William O'Brien
  • 21. Forty-five years' researches in the chronology and ordering of the British Bronze Age : a personal memoir / Colin Burgess
  • 22. Land snails as a guide to the environments of wind-blown sand : the case of Lauria Cylindracea and Pupilla Muscorum / J. G. Evans.