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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"CC Archaeology"”.
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A re-interpretation of the late Bronze Age metalwork hoards of Essex and Kent
… selection processes operated during the accumulation of the hoard contents, with certain artefact categories being favoured for inclusion. It therefore seemed likely that, instead of being a direct by-product of the metalworking process, these hoards were instead collections of metalwork …
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An archaeology of Scotland's early Romananesque churches: the towers of Alba
… a consequence, Scottish contributions to church archaeology publications are largely written by architectural-historians, particularly Richard Fawcett, who is the sole modern authority on Scotland’s medieval churches. To distinguish my archaeology from previous research I do three things. …
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Medieval rural settlement: a study of Mid-Argyll, Scotland
This thesis describes an approach to the study of medieval rural settlement in Mid-Argyll which involved a combination of archaeological survey and historic geography. The techniques used included archaeological fieldwork, excavation, geophysical survey, and the consultation of historic maps, …
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Monuments and the construction of the past in early historic Ireland
… is indicated by the prominence which they are accorded in epic literature and topographical lore, their recording in annalistic compilations as the sites of battles and assemblies, and their spatial proximity to - or even incorporation within - ecclesiastical or royal sites.
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Medieval landscapes and lordship in South Uist
This thesis examines the structures of society and lordship in the Middle Ages in South Uist through historical documentation, oral-tradition, cultural landscapes, monuments and settlement patterns. In this thesis, the medieval period has been defined as that between c. 1000 and c. 1650. The …
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Interpreting conflict mortuary behaviour: applying non-linear and traditional quantitative methods to conflict burials
… burial circumstances (e.g., whether a death occurred in direct conflict on the battlefield, as a direct consequence of battlefield injuries or other trauma, or as an execution, or was unrelated to the conflict; and whether the subsequent burial was by a ‘friendly’, ‘neutral’ or ‘hostile …
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Surface lithic scatters as an archaeological resource in South and Central Scotland
… of individuals, as well as to the natural occurrences across the country today. These range from the farmer ploughing his field, to the movement of sand dunes in storms. Ultimately, it is the fieldwalker him/herself who creates the recorded scatter. The fieldwalkers who have created the …
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Bone, antler, tooth and horn technology and utilisation in prehistoric Scotland
This study is concerned with the technology and utilisation of skeletal hard tissue in prehistoric Scotland. The natural properties of skeletal tissues were considered, their reaction to particular methods of manufacture and utilisation were studied and a detailed examination made of material from …
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The Neolithic and early Bronze Age in the Firth of Clyde
… view. Quantitative analyses of the frequency of occurrence, spatial distribution and relationship to eight locational factors are carried out for each of the type monuments at the regional level and for sub-regions identified within the study area. The results are discussed in the light of a …
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The chambered cairns of Orkney: land and society in the third and second millennia BC
Abstract available p. iv-vii
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Contextualising the cropmark record: the timber monuments of the Neolithic of Scotland
… much less attention and remain to be fully accepted and integrated into wider understandings of the Neolithic. This is despite a rich record of cropmark timber monuments held within the aerial archives of the National Monuments Record of Scotland (NMRS) and an increasing number of excavated …
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Aspects of Roman siegecraft
… scrutiny, in order to question the common acceptance of Napoléon's tripartite, timber-built design. Separate analyses of Roman artillery and siege-machinery round off the work, exposing several persistent fallacies concerning the operation and siting of stone-projecting catapults, and …
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Presenting archaeological sites to the public in Scotland
… other social sciences, has been little-used in archaeology. For this project, semi-structured recorded interviews were undertaken with participants at the sites, which were subsequently transcribed and analysed using QSR NVivo software. This approach, the rationales behind using it, and benefits …
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The early historic landscape of Strathearn: the archaeology of a Pictish kingdom
… of the early medieval kingdom of Fortiu which occupied present day Strathearn in eastern Scotland. Archaeological and historical sources are used to examine the develoent of the administrative structure at the root of the Medieval state of Scotland. There are three main aspects to this study. …
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The Scandinavian settlement of Northern Shetland: Northmavine, Yell, Unst, and Fetlar
… Unst, and Fetlar: the extent and nature of the occupation, the reasons for the settlement pattern, whether the area functioned as a single sea-based unit or several island/land-based units, the historical, linguistic and place-name evidence, the economy and resources, the transition periods …
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A study of marine exploitation in prehistoric Scotland, with special reference to marine shells and their archaeological contexts
The history of the study of marine exploitation in Scotland is outlined prior to the presentation of an overview of the evidence for its practice in both earlier and later prehistory. This overview is based on a corpus of Scottish prehistoric sites known to include evidence for marine exploitation. …
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Negotiating space: routes of communication in Roman to British Colonial Cyprus
… of road building, descriptive historical accounts of roads, and anthropological investigations that focus mainly on the role of communication routes in movement, memory and landscape. Unlike these previous studies, this research addresses communication routes as socially embedded material …
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Settlement and community : their locations, limits and movement through the landscape of historical Cyprus
… of parts unless the people that constructed or occupied it are taken into account. A single settlement is home to numerous communities that continuously form, divide and reform in response to the changing practical and social situations that everyday life presents. Before any settlement is …
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Palaeoepidemiological study of the post-medieval Gloucester 13/83 Skeletal Assemblage.
… register of Southgate Congregational Church (SCC). Significant differences were identified between the known age at death of the individual in the register and the age estimations of the church burials. This may be due to age bias in techniques applied in biological anthropology specifically as …
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Luminescence dating of Scottish burnt mounds: new investigations in Orkney and Shetland
This thesis presents new research on the luminescence dating of burnt mounds in the Orkney and Shetland Islands. Through an examination of available evidence for Scottish burnt mounds, a number of key problematic areas have been identified in relation to our understanding of these sites and their …
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