Download or read book The Archaeology of Argyll written by James Neil Graham Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, a team of specialists trace the history of the region of Argyll through its monuments. Mesolithic Argyll, the Neolithic period, Bronze Age ritual monuments and the impact of the Scots are examined with descriptions of relevant monuments and recent finds.
Download or read book The Archaeology of Argyll written by James Neil Graham Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the first account of Argyll's archaeology written for a general audience, a team of specialists traces the history of the area through its monuments.
Download or read book The Caves of Mid Argyll written by Christopher Tolan-Smith and published by Society Antiquaries Scotland. This book was released on 2001 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Tolan-Smith set out on a programme of fieldwork on caves and rockshelters in Mid Argyll to answer the question of why settlement on the west coast of Scotland appeared to happen later than in the islands.
Download or read book People Pottery and the Past written by Fiona Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Argyll Curiosities written by Marian Pallister and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great travellers of the 17th century – Martin, Penant, Johnson et al – used the word 'curiosity' to mean many different things. They labelled as 'curiosities' people, plants, legends, historical facts and geological certainties. This book follows their example in a 21st century journey around Argyll and its islands. It is difficult to find an area of Argyll which is not curious in some way: archaeology, geography, geology and genealogy have all served to mark out this western fringe of Scotland as unique. Discarding those curiosities which it is all too easy to find on any journey through the county, Marian Pallister has looked extensively into places, people and events which are curiously layered, and has created a book that is overflowing with enchanting 'curiosities' and local histories.
Download or read book The Archaeology and Landscape History of the Oban Region Argyll Scotland written by Mark Roy Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Archaeological History of Hermitages and Eremitic Communities in Medieval Britain and Beyond written by Simon Roffey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many hermitages and eremitic communities are recorded throughout the medieval period, yet to date, there has been no comprehensive archaeological study. This richly illustrated book will consequently discuss a range of hermitages and introduce the reader to their architectural forms, spaces, location and environments as well as the religious practices associated with them. It will focus primarily on the British material but will nonetheless consider this within a wider comparative framework. Overall, it will offer an archaeological history of hermitages and presents a unique window into a lost world of medieval spirituality and religious life. Key related themes will include the earliest archaeological evidence for hermits (eremitic life) in India, China and East Asia, pre- and early Christian desert hermitages, cave hermitages, eremitic communities, saints and missionary hermits, life and diet, medieval mysticism and the contemplative tradition, secular and ornamental hermitages and hermits in post-medieval and contemporary society. This book offers an illustrated archaeological history of hermitages and eremitic communities, with reference to key examples and case studies. It will therefore appeal to both academics, students and a more general readership interested in archaeology, history, comparative religion, architecture, religion and belief, spirituality, medieval Britain, modern contemplative practice and contemporary heritage issues.
Download or read book Ancient Lives written by Fraser Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Lives provides new perspectives on objects, people and place in early Scotland and beyond.This scholarly and accessible volume provides a show-case of new information and new perspectives on material culture linked, but not limited to, Scotland.
Download or read book Dunadd written by Alan Lane and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kingdom of Dal Raita emerged in Argyll in the early centuries AD, after the Romans had abandoned Scotland. Unlike the Picts to the North and the British Celtic tribes to the South, the rulers of Argyll were Gaelic speakers who had crossed the sea from Ireland. This book describes the results of new excavations at Dunadd, the rocky hill on which these early Scots built a citadel. The authors also review past research at the site, and discuss what we know of Dalriadic society and culture.
Download or read book The Archaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches No 29 written by Nancy Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on new research on the archaeology of the early medieval Celtic churches c AD 400-1100 in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, south-west Britain and Brittany. The 21 papers use a variety of approaches to explore and analyse the archaeological evidence for the origins and development of the Church in these areas. The results of a recent multi-disciplinary research project to identify the archaeology of the early medieval church in different regions of Wales are considered alongside other new research and the discoveries made in excavations in both Wales and beyond. The papers reveal not only aspects of the archaeology of ecclesiastical landscapes with their monasteries, churches and cemeteries, but also special graves, relics, craftworking and the economy enabling both comparisons and contrasts. They likewise engage with ongoing debates concerning interpretation: historiography and the concept of the Celtic Church, conversion to Christianity, Christianization of the landscape and the changing functions and inter-relationships of sites, the development of saints cults, sacred space and pilgrimage landscapes and the origins of the monastic town .
Download or read book The Archaeological Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Archaeology of Natural Places written by Richard Bradley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores why natural places such as caves, mountains, springs and rivers assumed a sacred character in European prehistory, and how the evidence for this can be analysed in the field. It shows how established research on votive deposits, rock art and production sites can contribute to a more imaginative approach to the prehistoric landscape, and can even shed light on the origins of monumental architecture. The discussion is illustrated through a wide range of European examples, and three extended case studies. An Archaeology of Natural Places extends the range of landscape studies and makes the results of modern research accessible to a wider audience, including students and academics, field archaeologists, and those working in heritage management.
Download or read book Coastal Archaeology and Complex Societies the Maritime Cultural Landscape of South Argyll written by Elizabeth A. Ragan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaeologies of Remembrance written by Howard Williams and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did past communities and individuals remember through social and ritual practices? How important were mortuary practices in processes of remembering and forgetting the past? This innovative new research work focuses upon identifying strategies of remembrance. Evidence can be found in a range of archaeological remains including the adornment and alteration of the body in life and death, the production, exchange, consumption and destruction of material culture, the construction, use and reuse of monuments, and the social ordering of architectural space and the landscape. This book shows how in the past, as today, shared memories are important and defining aspects of social and ritual traditions, and the practical actions of dealing with and disposing of the dead can form a central focus for the definition of social memory.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter gatherers written by Vicki Cummings and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 1361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies, undertaking detailed regional and thematic case-studies that span the archaeology, history and anthropology of hunter gatherers, concluding with an in-depth review of the main opportunities, research questions, and moral obligations that lie ahead.
Download or read book The Prehistoric Rock Art of Argyll written by Ronald W. B. Morris and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Prehistoric Rock Art of Argyll is a complete study of the unusual prehistoric rock carvings which adorn many of the rock outcrops and sometimes free-standing stones in Argyll. The author, an authority on Scottish prehistoric art, has made a complete catalogue of all the Argyll carvings, illustrating his book with numerous photographs, line drawings and maps"--Back cover.
Download or read book Roots of Nationhood The Archaeology and History of Scotland written by Louisa Campbell and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12 papers from specialists covering a wide array of time periods and subject areas, this volume explores the links between identity and nationhood throughout the history of Scotland from the prehistory of northern Britain to the more recent heralding of Scottish identity as a multi-ethnic construction and the possibility of Scottish independence.
