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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Broch"”.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein and Hermann Broch: The Need for Fiction and Logic in Moral Philosophy
… and contemporary of Wittgenstein's, Hermann Broch. Broch believed that by limiting philosophy to the logical clarification of thoughts, ethical problems cannot suitably be addressed and explored. He thought that rational arguments and fiction play a complementary role in revealing to us our …
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The continuity of status in Iron Age settlements through metallurgical craft specialisation and material wealth
Brochs are found mainly along the Atlantic seaboard of Scotland. This research focuses on the period from approximately 500BC to 850AD and aims to demonstrate that the status settlements seen in the broch period in Orkney and Shetland retain this status in the post-broch period. Broch settlements …
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Modelling an island landscape in the North Atlantic Iron Age. The interpretation of monuments and resources in order to understand local factors influencing settlement and social organisation.
… to each other. The study area contains two brochs. An inter-disciplinary approach is used to identify evidence for other Iron Age settlements and the information is presented as a model illustrating the pattern of settlement at different points during the Iron Age. A distinction is drawn …
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Settlement and landscape in the Northern Isles; a multidisciplinary approach. Archaeological research into long term settlements and thier associated arable fields from the Neolithic to the Norse periods.
… of a social elite in the Iron Age, building brochs and other substantial roundhouses of near broch proportions, is seen as being linked to the control of resources. Evidence at the site of Old Scatness indicated that there was a continuity of wealth and power from the Middle Iron Age through …
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Aspects of the late Atlantic Iron Age
… Least is known of the LIA I, the immediate post-broch period. Original analysis of the C-14 record confirms these divisions; they result as a combination of the effects of the Trondheim calibration curve but mainly the history of archaeological survival and previous excavation strategy. A large …