The Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site
Author: Historic Scotland
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9781903570210
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9781903570210
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Amanda Brend
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2020-09-30
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 1789255074
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner, Current Archaeology 2023 Book of the Year 2023 This volume brings together several years of work devoted to the wider landscape of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. It documents the results of a program of geophysical and related survey across an area of c. 285 hectares between Skara Brae on the west Orkney coast and Maeshowe, by the Loch of Stenness. The project has made it possible to talk for the first time about the landscape context of some of the most remarkable and renowned prehistoric monuments in Western Europe. The aims are to synthesize the data from different forms of survey and to document the changing character and development of this landscape over time. The results are genuinely remarkable are presented in a manner which makes the material of interest and value to a relatively wide readership, with an array of images which fully document and interpret the evidence. Survey work at a landscape scale tends to deal with palimpsests. Here descriptive sections are set within a thematic structure designed to explore the changing use and significance of different areas over time. The results shed important new light on the character and extent of known prehistoric sites and ceremonial monuments. But they also document the afterlives of these and other places and their relation to the lived landscapes of the historic and more recent past. In tracing the changing configuration of the World Heritage Area, we can begin appreciate this landscape as an artifact of several millennia of dwelling, working land, attending to wider worlds and to the past itself.
Author: Jane Downes
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781904966043
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Published: 2000*
Total Pages: 1
ISBN-13: 9781900168557
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Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2020-09-30
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1789255090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume brings together several years of work devoted to the wider landscape of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. It documents the results of a programme of geophysical and related survey across an area of c. 285 hectares between Skara Brae on the west Orkney coast and Maeshowe, by the Loch of Stenness. The project has made it possible to talk for the first time about the landscape context of some of the most remarkable and renowned prehistoric monuments in Western Europe. The aims are to synthesise the data from different forms of survey and to document the changing character and development of this landscape over time. The results are genuinely remarkable are presented in a manner which makes the material of interest and value to a relatively wide readership, with an array of images which fully document and interpret the evidence. Survey work at a landscape scale tends to deal with palimpsests. Here descriptive sections are set within a thematic structure designed to explore the changing use and significance of different areas over time. The results shed important new light on the character and extent of known prehistoric sites and ceremonial monuments. But they also document the afterlives of these and other places and their relation to the lived landscapes of the historic and more recent past. In tracing the changing configuration of the World Heritage Area, we can begin appreciate this landscape as an artefact of several millennia of dwelling, working land, attending to wider worlds and to the past itself.
Author: Caroline Wickham-Jones
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781909686502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Caroline Wickham-Jones provides a highly readable and informative overview of Orkney's archaeological heritage, illustrated with beautiful photography.
Author: Historic Scotland
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9781904966944
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Antonia Thomas
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2016-09-26
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1784914347
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers a groundbreaking analysis of Neolithic art and architecture in Orkney, focussing upon the incredible collection of hundreds of decorated stones being revealed by the current excavations at the Ness of Brodgar.
Author: Historic Scotland
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Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781900168533
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