The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland
Kenneth Brophy, Gavin MacGregor, and Ian B. M. Ralston
Abstract
What was life like in Scotland between 4000 and 2000BC? Where were people living? How did they treat their dead? Why did they spend so much time building extravagant ritual monuments? What was special about the relationship people had with trees and holes in the ground? What can we say about how people lived in the Neolithic and early Bronze Age of mainland Scotland where much of the evidence we have lies beneath the ploughsoil, or survives as slumped banks and ditches, or ruinous megaliths? Each contribution to this volume presents fresh research and radical new interpretations of the pits, p ... More
What was life like in Scotland between 4000 and 2000BC? Where were people living? How did they treat their dead? Why did they spend so much time building extravagant ritual monuments? What was special about the relationship people had with trees and holes in the ground? What can we say about how people lived in the Neolithic and early Bronze Age of mainland Scotland where much of the evidence we have lies beneath the ploughsoil, or survives as slumped banks and ditches, or ruinous megaliths? Each contribution to this volume presents fresh research and radical new interpretations of the pits, postholes, ditches, rubbish dumps, human remains and broken potsherds left behind by our Neolithic forebears.
Keywords:
Neolithic,
Bronze Age,
Scotland,
material culture,
monuments,
settlement,
lowlands,
identity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780748685721 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: January 2018 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748685721.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Kenneth Brophy, editor
University of Glasgow
Gavin MacGregor, editor
University of Glasgow
Ian B. M. Ralston, editor
University of Edinburgh
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