Between the Wind and the Water: World Heritage Orkney

by Wickham-Jones, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9781905119066
• ISBN10: 1905119062
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-15
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

The archaeological sites of Orkney give us an unparalleled glimpse into prehistory. Inscribed as the 'Heart of Neolithic Orkney' World Heritage Site in 1999, four great monuments - the village of Skara Brae, the Ring of Brodgar, the Stones of Stenness and the burial mound of Maeshowe - are also at the centre of the archipelago's story.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. x
The Story	p. xii
The Visit	p. xiii
Orkney and its World Heritage	p. 1
The People Before: Mesolithic Orkney	p. 21
The Arrival of Change: The Early Neolithic	p. 31
Skara Brae: Settling Down and Taming the Land in the Late Neolithic	p. 42
Maeshowe: Death, Burial and the Other World in the Late Neolithic	p. 56
The Brodgar Peninsula: Dances of Stones	p. 68
The Wider World of the Neolithic	p. 81
The People After: The Bronze Age and the Iron Age	p. 90
Trade and Temptation: The Picts, the Norse and the Coming of Christianity	p. 109
Farmland, Famine and Visitors: Historic Orkney into the Twentieth Century	p. 123
Antiquarians and Archaeologists	p. 135
World Heritage Status: The Ultimate Accolade?	p. 152
Moving On	p. 162
Notes to the Chapters	p. 166
Index	p. 177
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