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Showing 1 to 20 of 174 for “"Neolithic"”.
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Reframing the Neolithic
… – as its central aim – the repositioning of the Neolithic within contemporary archaeological theory. Whilst acknowledging the insights it brings to an understanding of the period, it is argued that the knowledge it produces is necessarily constrained by the emphasis it accords to the cultural. …
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Developing Archaeomagnetic Dating for Neolithic Scotland
… by studying fired archaeological material from Neolithic Scotland (4000 BCE – 2500 BCE). The aim was to use archaeomagnetic studies of fired archaeological material to define and better understand variations in the past geomagnetic field through the Scottish Neolithic. Six archaeological sites …
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The Neolithic Settlement of the Yorkshire Dales
The Neolithic archaeology of the Yorkshire Dales is widely acknowledged, but poorly understood. The research presented in thesis is the first time that all the archaeological evidence has been quantified and synthesised to provide an informed view of settlement in the Yorkshire Dales for period …
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The early Neolithic tor enclosures of Southwest Britain
… that they could reveal more about the Early Neolithic than many causewayed enclosure sites. Yet, despite being recognised as Neolithic in date as early as the 1920s, they have been subject to a disproportionately small amount of work. Indeed, the southwest, Cornwall especially, is almost …
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Alternative perspectives of projectile point variability during the Levantine Neolithic
Ghwair I, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B community in southern Jordan, has an abundant projectile point assemblage that facilitates a thorough characterization and detailed techno-typological analysis of the projectile points recovered. It is concluded that current typologies tend to mask significant …
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Art and Architecture in Neolithic Orkney: Process, Temporality and Context
This thesis presents a contextual analysis of Neolithic art and architecture in Orkney. Focussing upon the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site, it details the results of original fieldwork at three sites with in situ dressed and decorated stonework: Maeshowe, Skara Brae and the Ness of …
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Rethinking the aceramic neolithic: Insights from an ethnoarchaeological study on Cyprus
The so-called bizarre Aceramic Neolithic Period on the Mediterranean island of Cypros is reconsidered in light of an ethnoarchaeological study conducted in conjunction with the Kholetria-Ortos Project. The ethnoarchaeological study was designed to discover the organizational aspects of agropastoral …
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The construction and use of categories of Neolithic pottery from Wales
The thesis examines the Neolithic pottery from Wales and attempts to write a history of practices concerned with its construction and use. This work is undertaken from the standpoint that contingency, that is the constraints and possibilities of the history of objects, has a major role in their …
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The Neolithic and early Bronze Age in the Firth of Clyde
… monuments of the Firth of Clyde region in the Neolithic and early Bronze Age. Six type monuments which were the foci of ritual and/or burial practices during this period are considered: chambered cairns of the Neolithic, stone circles, standing stones, cup-marked rocks, early Bronze Age burial …
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The same but better: understanding ceramic variation in the Hebridean Neolithic
… key locales within which a distinctive Hebridean Neolithic identity was forged. Throughout, this study takes a relational approach to the issue of variation in material culture, viewing all archaeological entities as dynamic assemblages that themselves form attributes of higher-level assemblages. …
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A multi-varied approach to meaning of some East Baltic Neolithic symbols
… material and ideological data from East Baltic Neolithic pre-Corded Ware culture sites c. 6500-3500 B.P. are compiled and compared in order to reasonably interpret certain aspects of these prehistoric people's ideology, specifically as it relates to their faunal environment and gender-based …
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Contextualising the cropmark record: the timber monuments of the Neolithic of Scotland
… built for the first time at the beginning of the Neolithic period in Scotland (4000 BC). While archaeological attention and investigation has focused upon monuments of stone and earth, those of timber have generally received much less attention and remain to be fully accepted and integrated into …
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Eating identity: food, gender, and social organization in late Neolithic northern China
The Dawenkou Neolithic Culture (ca. 4300-2600 cal. BC) in Shandong, northern Jiangsu and Anhui Provinces, China, has been intensively investigated because it provides insights into the origin of complex stratified societies. Dawenkou is well known for its extremely elaborate burials indicating …
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A study of Neolithic plaster materials from the Near and Middle East.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Metallurgy and Materials Science. Thesis. 1974. M.S.
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