num_pages: 128
description: As its title might suggest, this volume sets out to present a new view of Scotland's Neolithic as seen via its monumental structures. The papers brought together here came out of a research day at Cardiff University's School of History and Archaeology in January 2002 and cover a diverse number of topics. They raise questions of ancestry and worldview, and highlight the amount that can be done in examining the settings of monuments.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of contributorsForeword ( Alasdair Whittle )Not my discourses in monumentality ( Kenneth Brophy )Island the settings of the chambered cairns of southern Orkney ( Vicki Cummings and Amelia Pannett )Ancestry, farming and the changing architecture of the Clyde cairns of south-west Scotland ( Gordon Noble )The chambered cairns of South Uist ( Vicki Cummings, Cole Henley and Niall Sharples )A view from monumental spaces in the Neolithic of Caithness ( Amelia Pannett )The excavation of a chambered cairn at Leaval, South Uist ( Vicki Cummings and Niall Sharples )Fishing for lived space and the early Neolithic of Orkney ( Fraser Stuart )The 'henge' and 'hengiform' in Scotland ( G. J. Barclay )Choreographed recreating the centre of other worlds at the monumental complex of Callanish, western Lewis ( Cole Henley )Between a rock and a hard rock art and mimesis in Neolithic and Bronze Age Scotland ( Andy Jones )
language: English
title: Set in stone: New approaches to Neolithic monuments in Scotland
titlecomplete: Set in stone: New approaches to Neolithic monuments in Scotland
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Oxbow Books