Excavations at Knowth Volume 6: the Passage Tomb Archaeology of the Great Mound at Knowth The Passage Tomb Archaeology of the Great Mound at Knowth

by Eogan, George; Cleary, Kerri

• ISBN13: 9781908996763
• ISBN10: 1908996765
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-12-07
• Publisher: Royal Irish Academy

Summary

The ancient burial sites of Knowth, Newgrange and Dowth make up the archaeological complex at Brugh na Bóinne, a UNESCO world heritage site which has attracted enormous international interest. George Eogan began excavating the site at Knowth in 1962 and this is the sixth volume of the Excavations at Knowth monograph series. Volume 6 aims at reconstructing the archaeological history of the achievements of the passage tomb builders who created and utilised the great mound (Tomb 1) at Knowth over a period of at least three centuries, c. 3200–2900 BC. It is hoped that the research presented in this volume will lead to a better understanding of the people who built the passage tomb cemetery at Knowth, and also contribute to the wider appreciation of society at the time of its construction and use.

Author Biography

George Eogan is an Irish archaeologist with particular interest in the Neolithic and Late Bronze Ages. He is Professor Emeritus of Celtic Archaeology at University College Dublin. He was the Director of the Knowth Research Project and excavated at Knowth for more than 40 years as part of his investigation of the Passage Tomb builders in Ireland and Western Europe. He is the author of Excavations at Knowth Volume 5: The archaeology of Knowth in the first and second millenia AD (2012).Kerri Cleary has a PhD in archaeology from University College Cork for her research ‘Irish Bronze Age settlements: spatial organisation and the deposition of material culture’. She was a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, and the editor/author of Archaeological networks: excavations on six gas pipelines in County Cork (Collins Press, 2015). She is now a post-excavation manager with a commercial archaeological company based in England.