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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Pearson, Michael Parker (1957-....)
Zvelebil, Marek
Titre(s) : Excavations at Cill Donnain [Texte imprimé] : a Bronze Age settlement and Iron Age wheelhouse in South Uist / by Mike Parker Pearson and Marek Zvelebil ; with contributions by Sean Bell, Andrew Chamberlain, Gordon Cook... [et al.]
Édition : Hardcover ed.
Publication : Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2014
Description matérielle : xviii, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm
Collection : Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides ; volume
9
Lien à la collection : Sheffield environmental and archaeological research campaign in the Hebrides
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"The SEARCH (Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides)
project began in 1987 and covers the Scotland's Outer Hebrides. The aim of the project
is to investigate how human societies adapted in the long-term to the isolated environment
of the Outer Hebrides. The first major excavation on South Uist discovered that what
was thought to be a shell midden at Cill Donnain was in fact a wheelhouse, a type
of dwelling used in the period c. 300 BC-AD 500, under which lay the remains of a
Bronze Age settlement. This settlement was partly investigated by Marek Zvelebil in
1991 and then later by Mike Parker Pearson and Kate MacDonald in 2003. The site itself
is situated at the foot of a high steep-sided dune on the eastern edge of a large
sand valley, close to the western shore of Loch Cill Donnain. The archaeological report
of the excavation at the Cill Donnain wheelhouse shows that, in comparison with contemporary
neighbouring settlements, it was unlikely that each was an independent unit and that
they were linked by social and economic inter-dependency. The wheelhouse thus provides
striking new evidence that contributes to developing theories about the social, material
and economic life in the period. This volume presents the extensive archaeological
evidence found at the site, including pottery, faunal remains and a variety of bone
and metal tools, illustrating that the Cill Donnain landscape is rich in archaeological
sites of all periods from the Beaker to the post-Medieval"--Publisher's website
Sujet(s) : Fouilles archéologiques -- Cill Donnain (Hébrides, GB ; site archéologique)
Âge du fer -- South Uist (GB ; île)
Âge du bronze -- South Uist (GB ; île)
Établissements humains préhistoriques -- Cill Donnain (Hébrides, GB ; site archéologique)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781782976271. - ISBN 1782976272 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438984365
Notice n° :
FRBNF43898436
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