The focus of the paper is an engagement with the significance of the exploitation of stone sources to make objects, particularly stone axe heads on islands in northwest Europe during the Neolithic period (4000 – 2500 BC). Case studies of Lambay Island in the Irish Sea, Rathlin Island off the northeast coast of Ireland, and the Shetland Islands explore the use of these three stone sources through the archaeological record, examining the biographies of objects (from quarries, through use, to discard or deposition) and applying a range of approaches to understanding material culture. What emerges is an understanding of the central role these three lithic sources played in how people engaged with and created their island places and landscapes. ...
This thesis deals mainly with the Middle Neolithic period (ca. 3200-2300 BC) on the island of Gotlan...
Chapitre 35National audienceExcavated from 2003 to 2011, the site of Beg ar Loued in the southern pa...
International audienceThe monumental nature of Neolithic funerary rites is analysed by archaeologist...
This paper deals with two intersecting issues of identity: the special identity of communities livin...
National audienceThe economy of an island territory, and particularly its supply dynamic, is an area...
Inter disciplinary study of major excavation assemblage from Norse settlement site in Orkney. Combin...
Although prehistoric megalithic monuments dominate the landscape of Guernsey, these have yielded lit...
The social processes involved in acquiring flint and stone in the Neolithic began to be considered o...
Coastal distributions such as that of the Neolithic chambered tombs of Brittany raise important ques...
This paper contrasts two ways of thinking about the passage graves of Scotland and Ireland and the r...
The subject of this thesis is to address the economic operation of the first agro-pastoral societies...
International audienceThis article presents an interdisciplinary study of two Late/Final Neolithic g...
This work is a synthesis of coarse stone artefacts from prehistoric sites in the Northern Isles with...
The economy of an island territory, and particularly its supply dynamic, is an area that has been li...
This thesis deals mainly with the Middle Neolithic period (ca. 3200-2300 BC) on the island of Gotlan...
Chapitre 35National audienceExcavated from 2003 to 2011, the site of Beg ar Loued in the southern pa...
International audienceThe monumental nature of Neolithic funerary rites is analysed by archaeologist...
This paper deals with two intersecting issues of identity: the special identity of communities livin...
National audienceThe economy of an island territory, and particularly its supply dynamic, is an area...
Inter disciplinary study of major excavation assemblage from Norse settlement site in Orkney. Combin...
Although prehistoric megalithic monuments dominate the landscape of Guernsey, these have yielded lit...
The social processes involved in acquiring flint and stone in the Neolithic began to be considered o...
Coastal distributions such as that of the Neolithic chambered tombs of Brittany raise important ques...
This paper contrasts two ways of thinking about the passage graves of Scotland and Ireland and the r...
The subject of this thesis is to address the economic operation of the first agro-pastoral societies...
International audienceThis article presents an interdisciplinary study of two Late/Final Neolithic g...
This work is a synthesis of coarse stone artefacts from prehistoric sites in the Northern Isles with...
The economy of an island territory, and particularly its supply dynamic, is an area that has been li...
This thesis deals mainly with the Middle Neolithic period (ca. 3200-2300 BC) on the island of Gotlan...
Chapitre 35National audienceExcavated from 2003 to 2011, the site of Beg ar Loued in the southern pa...
International audienceThe monumental nature of Neolithic funerary rites is analysed by archaeologist...