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Reading Between the Lines : The Neolithic Cursus Monuments of Scotland
Reading Between the Lines- Front Cover -- Reading Between the Lines -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Dating conventions -- Part I: The sites and their context -- Chapter 1: 'The weirdest type of field monument in the country&#...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
: Taylor and Francis
, 2015
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=4014817 |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Reading Between the Lines : The Neolithic Cursus Monuments of Scotland |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Reading Between the Lines- Front Cover -- Reading Between the Lines -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Dating conventions -- Part I: The sites and their context -- Chapter 1: 'The weirdest type of field monument in the country' -- The dowsing man -- The cursus problem -- Cropmarks and cursus monuments -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: How do you solve a problem like a cursus? -- Origins -- From the air -- 1947 -- The Dorset cursus effect -- The cursus problem -- The fourth-millennium DC (Dorset cursus) -- Themes of cursus studies -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Bust and boom -- A fresh perspective -- The Cambridge factor -- Boom: RCAHMS aerial survey -- '. . . a little judicious excavation in the right spot' -- 'The rear-end of an undomesticated duck': chasing cursus monuments in the 1990s -- Rethinking Scotland's cursus monuments -- Chapter 4: Ditches and banks, pits and postholes -- A cautionary tale -- Defining Scotland's cursus monuments -- The location and distribution of Scotland's cursus monuments -- The timber cursus monuments -- Hooray for Holywood -- Earthwork cursus monuments -- The Cleaven Dyke -- Dating Scotland's cursus monuments -- Little and large -- Chapter 5: Scotland in the early Neolithic: The world of the cursus builders -- The early Neolithic context -- The first farmers and the first 'farms' -- Monuments: ceremony, ritual and death -- Conclusion -- Part II: The evidence reviewed -- Chapter 6: Grand designs -- Introduction -- Building sites -- Targets and goals: cursus terminals -- Project management: cursus wobbliness -- Extensions or partitions? Internal divisions -- Running repairs -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Special places -- Going through a phase -- B.C. (Before Cursus) -- Cursus connections -- Settlement evidence -- Cursus pairs. Rectangular enclosures and long barrows -- Avenues -- Timber circles and henges -- Stone circles and standing stones -- Burial, barrows and Beakers -- Later prehistoric and Roman connections -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Remaking the land -- Wet Drybridge -- Landscape matters -- Water coincidence? -- Finishing on a high: topography and terminals -- Making a point -- Conclusions -- Part III: Interpretations -- Chapter 9: Rearranging trees -- Clearances -- The significance of trees -- Reconfiguring trees -- Moving monuments -- Houses of the living or houses of the dead? -- Deconstruction sites -- Clearances within clearances -- Chapter 10: Tracing lines across the land -- The second wave -- From timber to earth? -- Something to do with death -- Smoke and mirrors -- A moving experience -- Walking back in time -- Chapter 11: An unanswerable question? -- The start of a conclusion -- 'Leading nowhere and enclosing nothing' -- On the origins of cursus monuments -- Snapshots: cursus monuments today -- Appendix 1: Further reading -- Further information -- Further reading on Scotland's Neolithic and cursus monuments -- Appendix 2: Site list -- Visiting the Cleaven Dyke -- The cursus monuments of Scotland -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (281 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781317430025 |
