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Settlement in the Irish neolithic : new discoveries at the edge of Europe /

By: Smyth, Jessica.
Contributor(s): Gardiner, Julie | Allen, Michael J | The Prehistoric Society.
Series: Prehistoric society research paper ; No. 6.Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2014Description: xiv, 192 p. : ill., plates (some col.), maps, plans ; 28 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781842174975; 9781842174975:; 1842174975.Subject(s): Neolithic period -- Ireland | Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- Ireland | Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Ireland | Ireland -- History -- To 1172DDC classification: 936.1
Contents:
Populating the past : settlement archaeology in Britain and Ireland -- The house and society -- The Irish early neolithic house -- The role of the early neolithic house -- Beyond the "house horizon" -- Settling the island : activity and place -- A landscape in small acts -- After the flood : re-assessing the Irish neolithic.
Summary: This volume explores the wealth of evidence for settlement and houses throughout the Irish Neolithic, in relation to Britain and continental Europe. More importantly it incorporates the wealth of new, and often unpublished, evidence from developer-led archaeological excavations and large grey-literature resources.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Populating the past : settlement archaeology in Britain and Ireland -- The house and society -- The Irish early neolithic house -- The role of the early neolithic house -- Beyond the "house horizon" -- Settling the island : activity and place -- A landscape in small acts -- After the flood : re-assessing the Irish neolithic.

This volume explores the wealth of evidence for settlement and houses throughout the Irish Neolithic, in relation to Britain and continental Europe. More importantly it incorporates the wealth of new, and often unpublished, evidence from developer-led archaeological excavations and large grey-literature resources.

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