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THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEOLITHIC HOUSE SOCIETIES IN ORKNEY

by Colin Richards; Richard Jones

Published by Oxbow Books. 1st. 2016

Nearly fine condition. Investigations in the Bay of Firth, Mainland, Orkney (1994-2014). Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour photos & b/w drawings. 572 pages including index. A hefty volume.

A decent copy.

ISBN: 9781909686892
Stock no. 1827534

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Contents

  • 1. Images of Neolithic Orkney. Colin Richards and Richard Jones
  • 2. Houses of the Dead: the transition from wood to stone architecture at Widefore Hill. Colin Richards and Andrew Meirion Jones
  • 3. Place in the Past: an early Neolithic house at the Knowes of Trotty barrow cemetery, Harray, Mainland, Orkney. Jane Downes, Paul Sharman, Adrian Challands, Erika Guttmann-Bond, Jo McKenzie, Roy Towers and Patricia D. Voke
  • 4. Local Histories of Passage Grave Building Communities: Brae of Smerquoy. Christopher Gee, Colin Richard's and Mairi Robertson
  • 5. Good Neighbours: Stonehall Knoll, Stonehall Meadow and Stonehall Farm. Colin Richards, Kenny Brophy, Martin Carruthers, Andrew Meirion Jones, Richards Jones and Sian Jones
  • 6. At Stonehall Farm, Late Neolithic Life is Rubbish. Colin Richards, Richard Jones, Adrian Challands, Stuart Jeffrey, Andrew Meirion Jones, Sian Jones and Tom Muir
  • 7. The Settlement of Crossiecrown: the Grey and Red Houses. Nick Card, Jane Downes, Colin Richards, Richard Jones, Adrian Challands, Charles A.I. French and Antonia Thomas
  • 8. Reorientating the Dead of Crossiecrown: Quanterness and Ramberry Head. Rebecca Crozier, Colin Richards, Judith Robertson and Adrian Challands
  • 9. Materializing Neolithic House Societies in Orkney, introducing Varme Dale and Muckquoy. Colin Richards, Jane Downes, Christopher Gee and Stephen Carter
  • 10. Beside the Ocean of Time: a chronology of early Neolithic burial monuments and houses in Orkney. Seren Griffiths
  • 11. Prehistoric Pottery from Sites within the Bay of Firth: Stonehall, Crossiecrown, Wideford Hill, Bae of Smerquoy, Muckquoy, Ramberry and Knowes of Trotty. Andrew Meirion Jones, Richard Jones, Gemma Tully, Lara Maritan, Anna Mukherjee, Richard Evershed, Ann MacSween, Colin Richards and Roy Towers
  • 12.. Flaked Lithic Artefacts from Neolithic Sites around the Bay of Firth: Wideford Hill, Knowes of Trotty, Brae of Smerquoy, Stonehall, Crossiecrown and Ramberry. Hugo Anderson-Whymark, Richard Chatterton, Mark Edmonds and Caroline Wickham-Jones.
  • 13. The Coarse Stone from Neolithic Sites around the Bay of Firth: Stonehall, Wideford Hill, Crossiecrown, Knowes of Trotty and Brae of Smerquoy. Ann Clarke
  • Appendix 1. The Pumice from Crossiecrown and Stonehall. Ann Clarke
  • Appendix 2. The Back Stone Bead from Structure 1, Stonehall Farm. Alison Sheridan
  • Appendix 3. The Haematite and Related Iron-rich Materials. Effie Photos-Jones, Arlene Isbister and Richard Jones
  • 14. The Animal Remains from Stonehall and Crossiecrown. Catherine Smith and Julie A. Roberts
  • Appendix 1. The Human Remains from Ramberry Head. David Lawrence
  • 15. Bay of Firth Environments from the 2nd to 4th Millennium BC: the evidence from Stonehall, Wideford Hill, Crossiecrown, Knowes of Trotty, Varme Dale and Brae of Smerquoy. Jennifer Miller, Susan Ramsay, Diane Alldritt and Joanna Bending
  • Appendix 1. Paleoenvironmental Investigation of a Peat Core from Stonehall. Susan Ramsay, Stephanie Leigh-Johnson and Rupert Housley
  • 16. The micromorphological Analysis of Soils and Site Contexts at Stonehall and Crossiecrown. Charles French
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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