Building the Great Stone Circles of the North

Author: Windgather Press  

Publisher: Windgather Press‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9781909686151

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781909686120

Subject: K85 Archaeology

Keyword: 文物考古

Language: ENG

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Chapter

Part 1: Building the Great Stone Circles of the North

Chapter 1: Interpreting Stone Circles

Chapter 2: Monuments in the Making: the stone circles of western Scotland

Part 2: Stone Circles in Orkney

Chapter 3: Wrapping the Hearth: constructing house societies and the tall Stones of Stenness, Orkney

Chapter 4: Investigating the Great Ring of Brodgar, Orkney

Chapter 5: Monumental Risk: megalithic quarrying at Staneyhill and Vestra Fiold, Mainland, Orkney

Chapter 6: Surface over Substance: the Vestra Fiold horned cairn, Mainland, Setter cairn, Eday, and a reappraisal of late Neolithic funerary architecture

Part 3: Stone Circles in the Outer Hebrides

Chapter 7: The Peristalith and the Context of Calanais: transformational architecture in the Hebridean early Neolithic

Chapter 8: Erecting Stone Circles in a Hebridean Landscape

Chapter 9: Expedient Monumentality: Na Dromannan and the high stone circles of Calanais, Lewis

Chapter 10: The Sanctity of Crags: mythopraxis, transformation and the Calanais low circles

Chapter 11: A Time for Stone Circles, a Time for New People

Chapter 12: Constructing through Discourse: the folklore of stone circles and standing stones in the Northern and Western Isles

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