Download or read book Excavations on Hirta 1986 90 written by Norman Emery and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in a series of monographs dedicated to research into the archaeology and ethnology of St Kilda. Following the description of the excavations and finds, the discoveries are related to similar Hebridean sites.
Download or read book Island on the Edge of the World written by Charles MacLean and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two thousand years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Their society was viable, utopian even; but in the nineteenth century the islands were discovered by missionaries, do-gooders and tourists, who brought with them money, disease and despotism. In 1930, the few remaining islanders were evacuated, no longer able to support themselves. An exploration of the life and death of the remote Hebridean society, Island on the Edge of the World is a moving account of human endeavour.
Download or read book Enclosing Space Opening New Ground written by Tanja Romankiewicz and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enclosures are among the most widely distributed features of the European Iron Age. From fortifications to field systems, they demarcate territories and settlements, sanctuaries and central places, burials and ancestral grounds. This dividing of the physical and the mental landscape between an inside and an outside is investigated anew in a series of essays by some of the leading scholars on the topic. The contributions cover new ground, from Scotland to Spain, between France and the Eurasian steppe, on how concepts and communities were created as well as exploring specific aspects and broader notions of how humans marked, bounded and guarded landscapes in order to connect across space and time. A recurring theme considers how Iron Age enclosures created, curated, formed or deconstructed memory and identity, and how by enclosing space, these communities opened links to an earlier past in order to understand or express their Iron Age presence. In this way, the contributions examine perspectives that are of wider relevance for related themes in different periods.
Download or read book The Biggings Papa Stour Shetland written by Barbara E. Crawford and published by Society Antiquaries Scotland. This book was released on 1999 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of a royal Norwegian farm on the Shetland island of Papa Stour was inspired by a document of 1299 recording the meeting between a Norwegian royal official and a woman who had accused him of treachery to his royal master.
Download or read book The Archaeological Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book St Kilda and the Wider World written by Andrew Fleming and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty miles out into the Atlantic from the western isles of Scotland lies the archipelago of St Kilda. Home to human populations for more than 4000 years, the islands inhabitants were evacuated from the main island in 1930 leaving it as a haven for wildlife, a tourist destination and workplace for those studying and monitoring the islands ecology and its radar station built in the 1950s. Many of those writing about St Kilda have emphasised the remoteness and insularity of its environment, describing its population as having endured a wretched and isolated existence marooned on an archipelago miles from civilisation. In this book Andrew Fleming challenges such interpretations. His history of the islands reviews the archaeological evidence for the first inhabitants before 2000 BC, how they lived and survived, and how they became integrated into the wider world. Much of the book focuses on more recent times where documentary sources relay in great detail the lives of St Kildans over the past few centuries; how they farmed, administered justice, took on communal responsibilities, their religious, and other, beliefs, the impact of visitors to the islands, and how events outside of the islands had an impact on their lives. Described as a historical drama, this is an excellent story of a remote island community which has been mythologised by many commentators. Superb photographs do much of the work of description.
Download or read book Journal of the British Archaeological Association written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Antiquity written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Reviews."
Download or read book Books in Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old and New Worlds written by Geoff Egan and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before the Mayflower sailed across the Atlantic in 1620, the material and cultural lives of the 'Old' and 'New' worlds were inextricably linked. This book reflects the techniques which archaeologists have used over the last 30 years to try and unravel, from a mass of material evidence, the lives of early Americans, and their English contemporaries. This book discusses the unique methodologies which historical archaeologists (in both Britain and the US) have developed to study early modern and industrial societies and new theoretical approaches focusing on ethnicity and domestic space, and new practical techniques using environmental as well as artifactual evidence. The book contains forty two essays arranged thematically. Five are concerned with the use and interpretation of evidence; thirteen describe settlements and their communities on both sides of the Atlantic; four are on nautical and military operations; thirteen are concerned with artefacts and pottery and their manufacture and distribution; and seven use environmental evidence to throw new light on the human populations, and the plant and animal worlds of the time.
Download or read book Townships to Farmsteads written by John Andrew Atkinson and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a conference held in Glasgow in 1997 on `Medieval or Later Rural Settlement', the 27 papers in this volume approach the subject from an inter-disciplinary perspective, including historical research, social history, theory, environmental sciences and the study of past communities. Packed full of information, archaeological and historical data, and with an impressive line-up of contributors, these studies address a clear need for integration and exchange of ideas across Britain.
Download or read book Northern Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Reports Translations and Theses written by British Library. Document Supply Centre and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Same Under a Different Sky written by Graham Connah and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A country estate in nineteenth-century NewSouth Wales
Download or read book Annual Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland written by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes List of members.
Download or read book Crossing Paths Or Sharing Tracks written by Audrey J. Horning and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together over 30 leading scholars in post medieval archaeology and examines where this relatively new discipline has developed from and, perhaps more importantly, where it is going in the decades to come.
