The archaeology of Skye and the Western Isles /
From the Callanish stones and the great ritual monuments of the Neolithic, the broch towers and the wheelhouses of the Iron Age, through to the arrival of the Norse and the Lords of the Isles, this book explores the history of human settlement and society from the first hunter-gatherers to the Clear...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press in association with Historic Scotland, ©1996. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | From the Callanish stones and the great ritual monuments of the Neolithic, the broch towers and the wheelhouses of the Iron Age, through to the arrival of the Norse and the Lords of the Isles, this book explores the history of human settlement and society from the first hunter-gatherers to the Clearances. What emerges is a Hebridean archaeology as distinctive as those of Orkney and Wessex. From the Callanish stones and the great ritual monuments of the Neolithic, the broch towers and the wheelhouses of the Iron Age, through to the arrival of the Norse and the Lords of the Isles, this book explores the history of human settlement and society from the first hunter-gatherers to the Clearances. What emerges is a Hebridean archaeology as distinctive as those of Orkney and Wessex. |
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| Item Description: | Print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 264 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585104190 0748606408 0748608583 0748679618 9780585104195 9780748606405 9780748608584 9780748679614 |