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SKARA BRAE: A PICTISH VILLAGE IN ORKNEY

by V. Gordon Childe

Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.. 1st. 1931

Very good condition. Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement located along the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney. The site was discovered following a storm exposing the presence of stone structures within the coastal sand dunes. Childe, who would be the first to admit he was better at writing than digging, which he loathed, excavated carefully, acknowledging the work of every digger involved in the process of carefully examining and cataloguing the site. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and photos. xiii and 208 pages plus plates to rear. Top edge brown.

Spine lightly faded to top & tail, a few minor marks to boards. Text block slightly grubby. Foxing present, mainly to text block and prelims. A lovely copy overall.

Stock no. 1831590

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Contents

  • PREFACE
  • I THE SITE AND ITS IMPORTANCE
  • (1) Introduction; (2) The Site
  • II DESCRIPTION OF THE VILLAGE
  • (1) Building Materials and Devices; (2) The Huts; (3) the Furniture and the Huts; (4) The Passages; (5) The Industrial Quarter; (6) The Midden
  • III INDIVIDUAL STRUCTURES
  • (1) The Several Huts; (2) The Passages; (3) The Industrial Quarter; (4) Areas South of the Market Place
  • IV THE HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE
  • (1) The Re-occupation Period; (2) Period IV; (3) Period II; (4) Skara Brae I; (5) The Original Land Surface; (6) Reconstruction of the History of Skara Brae
  • V MATERIAL CULTURE
  • (1) Economics; (2) Stone Implements; (3) Bone Implements; (4) Pottery; (5) Vessels of Stone and Whale-bone; (6) Miscellaneous Relics
  • VI SPIRITUAL CULTURE
  • (1) Burial Rites; (2) Ritual Objects; (3) Personal Ornaments; (4) Art and Letters; (5) Games
  • VII THE AGE AND AFFINITIES OF THE VILLAGE
  • (1) Statement of the Problem; (2) Comparison of the Skara Brae Culture with that of the Brochs; (3) Skara Brae and the Earth Houses; (4) Skara Brae and the Bronze Age Culture of Britain; (5) The Batlic Features of the Skara Brae Culture; (6) The Racial Designation of our Villages; (7) Survivals of the Skara Brae Tradition in Modern Scotland
  • AN ACCOUNT OF THE SKARA BRAE SKELETONS AND THEIR PROBABLE AFFINITIES, BY PROFESSOR THOMAS H BRYCE, MA, MD, FRS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
  • INDEX

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