Sickles & Circles Britain and Ireland in the Time of Stonehenge

by Gibson, Alex; Sheridan, Alison

• ISBN13: 9780752429021
• ISBN10: 0752429027
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: Tempus

Summary

During the period 40001000 BC, prehistoric Britain and Ireland were at their closest. There were significant differences, but at the same time their monuments, art, and artifacts were closely related. This volume brings together the latest research from some 25 prehistorians on both sides of the Irish Sea to produce a clearly written and well-illustrated academic guide to this period.

Author Biography

Alex Gibson is Reader in British Prehistory at the University of Bradford.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	7	(1)
List of Contributors	8	(1)
Introduction	9	(1)
Preface: Derek Simpson: A Personal Appreciation	10	(4)
Banks and Braes: Notes for a Film-Buff Fellow	14	(13)
J.V.S. Megaw
From Madhouse to Megaliths	27	(13)
Aubrey Burl
Destructions, Re-erections and Re-creations	40	(24)
J.N. Graham Ritchie
Time, Space and the Standing Stones round Calanais	64	(14)
Patrick Ashmore
Scottish Passage-Graves: Some Confusions and Conclusions	78	(14)
Audrey S. Henshall
The Use of Human and Faunal Material in Chambered Cairns in Orkney	92	(14)
Anna Ritchie
`A Truth Universally Acknowledged': Some More Thoughts on Neolithic Round Barrows	106	(10)
Ian Kinnes
The Great Baddow Hoard and Discoidal Knives: More Questions than Answers	116	(7)
Gillian Varndell
Spiralling Outwards -- The Problems and Possibilities of a Later Neolithic Leitmotiv	123	(19)
Roy Loveday
Hostilities in Early Neolithic Ireland: Trouble with the New Neighbours -- The Evidence from Ballyharry, County Antrim	142	(13)
Dermot G. Moore
Neolithic Flint-Work from the North of Ireland: Some Thoughts on Prominent Tool Types and their Production	155	(21)
Eimear Nelis
Reading a Burial: The Legacy of Overton Hill	176	(18)
Frances Healy
Jan Harding
The Neolithic Pottery and the Bronze Age Cist at Rath, County Wicklow	194	(7)
A.L. Brindley
Bell Beaker and Corded Ware Culture Burial Associations: A Bottom-Up rather than Top-Down Approach	201	(14)
Humphrey Case
Food Vessels with Handles	215	(28)
T.G. Manby
Scottish Food Vessel Chronology Revisited	243	(27)
Alison Sheridan
Small But Perfectly Formed? Some Observations on the Bronze Age Cups of Scotland	270	(19)
Alex Gibson
An Important Child's Burial from Doune, Perth and Kinross, Scotland	289	(15)
Dawn McLaren
A Landscape Analysis of the Topped Mountain Region, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland	304	(19)
Ronan McHugh
Eileen Murphy
Barrie Hartwell
(Con)Fusion of Tradition? The Circle Henge in Ireland	323	(16)
William O'Brien
Forty-Five Years' Researches in the Chronology and Ordering of the British Bronze Age: A Personal Memoir	339	(27)
Colin Burgess
Land Snails as a Guide to the Environments of Wind-Blown Sand: The Case of Lauria Cylindracea and Pupilla Muscorum	366	(14)
J.G. Evans
Index of Pricipal Sites	380