VESSELS FOR THE ANCESTORS
Written by Niall Sharples, Alison Sheridan
Published by Edinburgh University Press
in 1992
ISBN: 0748603417
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VESSELS FOR THE ANCESTORS
Written by Niall Sharples, Alison Sheridan.
Stock no. 1827630
1st.
1992.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Essays on the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland in honour of Audrey Henshall. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w maps, sketches and photos. ISBN: 0748603417. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Notes on radiocarbon dates and terminology
- 1 Alison Sheridan and Niall Sharples Introduction: The State of Neolithic Studies in Scotland
- PART 1. Funerary Studies
- 2 John Barber Megalithic architecture
- 3 Jane Murray The Bargrennan group of chambered cairns: circumstance and context
- 4 Roger Mercer Cumulative cairn construction and cultural continuity in Caithness and Orkney
- 5 Colin Richards Doorways into another world: the Orkney-Cromarty chambered tombs
- 6 Gordon Barclay Are the Clava 'passage graves' really passage graves?
- 7 Ian Kinnes Balnagowan and after: the context of non-megalithic mortuary sites in Scotland
- 8 J G Scott Mortuary structures and megaliths
- 9 George Eogan Scottish and Irish Passage Tombs
- 10 Gabriel Cooney Body politics and grave messages: Irish Neolithic mortuary practices
- 11 Julian Thomas Monuments, movement and the context of megalithic art
- PART 2. Decorated Stones
- 12 Frances Lynch The spiral-decorated stone at Llanbedr, Meirionydd
- 13 Richard Bradley Turning the world - rock-carvings and the archaeology of death
- PART 3: Artefact Studies
- 14 Mark Edmunds 'Their use is wholly unknown'
- 15 Alison Sheridan Scottish stone axeheads: some new work and recent discoveries
- 16 Roy Ritchie Stone axeheads and Cushion maceheads from Orkney and Shetland: some similarities and contrasts
- 17 Derek Simpson and Rachel Ransom Maceheads and the Orcadian Neolithic
- 18 Ann Clark Artefacts of coarse stone from Neolithic Orkney
- 19 Ann MacSween Orcadian Grooved Ware
- 20 Trevor G Cowie Neolithic pottery from Barbush Quarry
- 21 Rosamund Cleal Significant form: ceramic styles in the Earlier Neolithic of southern England
- PART 4: Regional Studies
- 22 Ian Armit The Hebridean Neolithic
- 23 Niall Sharples Aspects of regionalisation in the Scottish Neolithic
- Bibliography
- Index