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Libra Esoterica

Neolithic Scotland

timber, stone, earth and fire

by Gordon Noble

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

Description

Description from Gegnir/Leitir — Icelandic Union Catalogue (opens in a new tab)

Offers an account of the Neolithic period in Scotland from its early traces around 4000 BC to the transformation of Neolithic society in the Early Bronze Age. This work interprets Scottish material in the context of debates and issues in European archaeology, and outlines the chronology of the Neolithic in Europe.

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Megaliths, stone circles, and archaeoastronomy.

  • Megaliths, stone circles, and archaeoastronomy

    Controlled discovery queries from gegnir and national-library-of-scotland matched “Megalithic monuments” and “megalithic monuments”. Retained metadata contains “megalithic” in the subject metadata, “Megalithic monuments” in the subject metadata, and “megalithic” in the edition notes.

    • “Megalithic monuments”· via Gegnir/Leitir — Icelandic Union Catalogue
    • “megalithic monuments”· via National Library of Scotland
    • “megalithic”· in subject
    • “Megalithic monuments”· in subject
    • “megalithic”· in edition notes

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timber, stone, earth and fire

National Bibliography of Scotland record

1 online resource (ix, 262 pages); COVER; Contents; Figures; Preface; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Scotland in the Neolithic: an introduction; CHAPTER TWO Islands in the fast lane: the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition; CHAPTER THREE Burning down the house: the destruction of timber structures; CHAPTER FOUR Planting trees, planting people: long and round barrows in eastern Scotland and beyond; CHAPTER FIVE Megalithic architecture in Atlantic Scotland; CHAPTER SIX The emergence of monument complexes; CHAPTER SEVEN The architecture of monumental landscapes; CHAPTER EIGHT The Early Bronze Age: deconstructing and rebuilding the past; illustrations, maps; Includes bibliographical references and index

©2006Edinburgh University PressEnglish
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national-library-of-scotland:99116530470804341
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